It's time for my annual "What is This?" thread. LOL
I was cleaning the flower bed and came across a couple of thing that I'm not exactly sure about.
#1--Was mixed in with a bunch of Willow Leaf Asters, but this has a different leaf. The leaves are serrated on the edges. Possibly Ironweed??
#2 is where my John Fannick Phlox has been located, but I thought it died last summer. Is this a clump of phlox and are the small ones baby phloxes?
First one looks more like goldenrod. Second one does look like garden phlox (not sure about the baby ones).
It could be goldenrod. I have some of that in the bed, too! I remember spreading seeds last fall. Thanks!!
Can I add some pics for id? I broadcast some seeds over one of my beds, most were from seeds I collected last year when out and about. Some could be what was in the soil already.
The second picture has a small daisy like flower, bright yellow maybe the size of a quarter. The third picture has no foliage at all, the flower stalk comes out of the ground. The first and last are not showing signs of flowers yet.
Wow. I like #3, but have no idea about 1, 2, and 3. I think #4 might be Liatris, also known as Gay Feather. I have some coming up that looks similar, although not so yellow.
Stephanie, you have Goldenrod and Phlox.
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Joy.
your #1 looks like a Poppy
#2 A wild Daisy, don't know which.
#3 I believe is Hemp Broomrape, a very invasive plant, here is a picture
http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/2010/852/jpeg/09.jpg
http://www.texasinvasives.org/plant_database/detail.php?symbol=ORRA
#4 could be Artemisia.
Thanks Josephine, the broomrape is up at the front in the ditches this year. I have never seen it before this year. Now that I have read about it I will not be incorporating it in my beds.
Could the last one be larkspur? I know I threw out poppy seeds and larkspur but nothing that looked like artemesia. Ultimately I guess when it blooms I will know.
I have a couple daisy type clumps in this bed. Each is slightly different than the others. I will try and get a couple other pictures tomorrow.
Yes, it could be Larkspur, especially if you put some seeds out.
Yellow flower check on lance leaf coreopsis.
THAT'S the flower I thought it might be but couldn't remember the name.
The purple looks like a snapdragon more than larkspur but why is it so fuzzy? The wild larkspur I recognize arent that compact or fuzzy or dark green. I have about as much eyesight as Mr Magoo right now, and Marty also had a flower that looked like the coreopsis but wasnt, i was searching for a flower called a dragonsbeard but Google wants to give me a lizard. if anyone has the Tx native book, could you look up the blue flower dragons beard for me? I need a better name to find it
I think the purple flower wasn't the one being ID'ed as a larkspur but rather the last photo based on the foliage alone.
Maybe you are thinking of Dragon's Head plant?
I wwill check that. The last still looks too leafy for larkspur to me, but I will think on it...
That's what it says, "could the last one be a larkspur?" It looks like something else too but I can't remember the name.
We may not have too long to wait, today I noticed that all of them are developing flower buds. Hopefully we will have an answer next week.
I wouldn't be surprised if it has a yellow flower, the other plant I'm thinking of as a yellow flower. We shall see...
Joy, I agree with frostweed on your 4 pics above. 1 looks like a poppy, 2 looks like it could POSSIBLY be lance leaf coreopsis, 3 is broomrape, 4 probably is larkspur. I had some last year (larkspur) that had the ferny leaves like yours. Too bad they didn't do so well and no seed..
Here are some pics from google of fern leaf plants to compare. 1 is fern leaf dill. 2 is fern leaf peony. 3 is rocket larkspur. Hope this helps :)
Becky, I have fern leaf dill in two varieties in two clumps and although they are similar it isn't that. Oh I wish I could grow that fern leaf peony. I love it! I have been told we are not cold enough, Boo Hoo. I know I had some rocket larkspur seeds, and your photo really looks like what I am seeing. They are so robust, each plant is getting tall and has several branches growing up now.
I am such a child at heart, I love surprises and with my dogs and cats, any labels often disappear, especially while they still smell of me. I broadcast seeds back in the cold, and although I meant to write them down, my blonde brain had other ideas.
Thanks for the great pics, I will continue to lust after the peony.
Joy
I had never seen that peony before but WOW what a stunner huh?! I had to add it to my wants but I doubt I'll ever find it for trade!!
Hope it turns out to be that larkspur.. my buddy has a huge stand of deep purple ones and let me come and dig up babies last spring, but I killed them all! What can I say, it was a rough spring trying to install new beds on this property that had none prior. Hope to score some seed from her, they really are beautiful :)
Hate to hijack the thread but while were at it (IDing), anyone recognize this wild one? It's covered in a weblike gauze. Blooming now in north central TX.
Yup seen it but cant id without my books- it isnt a native but is asteraceae family-
Don't know what it is but it is all over here. I just mowed a bunch of it down yesterday.
If my plants are larkspur, I will definitely be saving seed, these are much more vigorous than my local larkspur. I try to plant only heirlooms and others that will reseed themselves so I will eventually end up with my "grandmother's" cottage garden. I will keep you posted.
If you have Rocket Larkspur you don't need to collect seed. I have it and it readily reseeds itself. I'm like you, I like the surprise...right now I'm surprised that none of the poppies have come up. Lol
Kittriana if you ever figure it out, please let me know. It's driving me crazy when I see it not knowing what it is. No success in plant ID forum either! Oh well..
Yes the larkspur reseed like mad, I will try them again next year and let them reseed a little then save the rest for trading. Joy I want that cottage garden look too.. I'm letting all my second year perennials spread this spring while planting more to "fill in the blanks". Maybe some annuals too, but I am too chicken to let them reseed through my beds, afraid something will happen to the babies out there in the wild! Lol! I prefer to collect the seeds and sow them indoors myself.
Lisa none of my poppies are up either :(
If you get a chance - ck for Aesclepius vestita, and wyethia elata-spelling?- on that yellow flower.
Ok, I have this in Plant id, but as close as I can tell its goin to be 'Oligoneuron rigida var rigida' stiff goldenrod. Anybody else can check on that.
I think what you have is Texas Ragwort, Senecio ampullaceus, check and see.
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=20829
I looked at that REALLY HARD too. The one we are seeing is a bit simpler of stalking, and has a VERY distinguishable gray green color Jo. I will need to take one apart I think. when next hhome
Check this one http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/70073/
No red in this one, no translucence, pure cadmium yellow bloom. Senecio flower has a different structure than this altogether.
Altagardner agrees with Jo on Texas Ragweed, Senecio ampull-sneezamus. I will cont to ck but name it solved. And dissect and take more pix when i get my dust mask...
Yes Josephine, you are right!! I've been offline all weekend and wow what a pleasant surprise to see this mystery has been solved!! Senecio ampullaceus; 'Texas groundsel':
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/98867/
A couple more.
#1 & #2 Are these ironweeds? I've never seen so many of them.
#3 Is this a fall blooming aster?
Yes to all of them, you have a good crop.
Thank you! I'm really amazed because I totally neglected this bed in the heat of the summer, fall, and into winter.
I was checking on a new calf this morning and came across this small tree or maybe large shrub along my Fenceline. I have never seen it bloom before.
I see apple tree, no way to verify leaf shape for you.
It does look like an apple.
This is my apple tree blossom. Not really the same. The leaves on the tree in question are narrow, small, tinged with burgundy. When I get home I will pull a couple and take photos for comparison. Understand, this is out in my old post oak woods. It is on the fence so it has been there for a while since the fence is thirty years old or more. I do have a native persimmon and some mustang grapes that are wild, but we discovered them years ago. Surely I would have noticed fruit or noticed animals going after the fruit. Do we have crabapple trees native here?
