I grew this plant a few years and have since been trying to figure out what it was. If anyone can id it and has seeds of it to trade I would really appreciate it. This was one of my favorite plants and must have been an annual as it never came back the following year. It was grown from seed.
Even if you don't have seeds and know what it is, I can purchase seed then.
To me, this looks a lot like an Oxeye Daisy (C. leucanthemum, wild type daisy, as opposed to Shasta type daisy with larger blooms). I had some smaller clumps in the orchard this year that branched a lot like that, and the leaf looks right from what I can see in the photo.
Or maybe it's a domesticated Chrysanthemum variety?
what does anyone else think?
Looks like a domesticated Chrysanthemum to me too. I have one called Corrine, looks like the one in the picture.
J
I grow the oxeye daisy and this is not the same. It has feathery foliage if I remember and the bees loved it.
Isn't that just my luck, the one plant that really did well and now I can't id it.
Maybe I will buy the Corrine one if I can find it. If it is as good as the one I had, it will be worth it.
Thanks both of you.
Looks like a Mum to me.
It sort of looks like my chamomile or maybe Winged Everlasting (Ammobium alatum). How big were the flowers?
I should have seeds for both if you think one of them is it.
You know I was gonna say that, chamomile... but I don't know much and thought I'd keep to myself :)
I know this feeling, a few years ago I planted something around the lamp post outside and it was so cool, it looked like lavender but I knew it wasn't. It was purple, silvery, ferny folilage. I backed up and tried to figure out what it was but it was too late. I think it might of been larkspur, but I couldn't find ANYTHING on the burpee site I bought the seed from that resembled it. So I am still at a loss.
Hope you figure that one out, thats really pretty.
What about Marguerite in the white version? Someone gave me seeds once but they were called golden marguerite and those are a yellow daisy.
The shasta would have come back, though and these were annuals.The flowers were a little smaller than the oxeye and shastas and the yellow button was firmer a little plumped.
Does chamomile get that big?
Plant Madness, at this point I would try anything to see if that is it. You can look at my trade page and see if there is something you want. Otherwise I can do postage or send you an agreed upon amount of plastic seed packets. Let me know. I am heading over to the plantfiles and see what these look like.
I sort of collect daisy like and wild asters.
I can't seem to find the trick to grow china asters or anything else I buy. They look so pretty, but nothing germinates in that category except the wild ones that grow around here.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/3196/
That looks alot like it, but its a perennial.
Windy...... I could be wrong but think your pic is Thymophylla tenuiloba
Here is a link to another site with a pic of it. See if it ain't like yours.
http://www.briansgarden.com/questions/020103q_5.html
Thanks guys. The closest match from what I can remember is the Anthemis variety. I am going to sneak over to Forestfarms later on and order a plant.
