DON'T RIP IT UP

IMPORTANT!!!!!!

The stuff growing in my strawberry patch that was identified as a weed, isn't. That was on the "Welome Cybercrone" thread.
Don't pull it up, whoever said they were going to.

Some of mine just bloomed, and it has the prettiest bright orangey-red flower heads - looks like they're made up of multiple tiny flowers. Just spotted it out of the bathroom window this morning. Haven't had a chance to get a close look yet.

I'll send a pic for identification as soon as I get a minute to take one.

~marilyn

Oooh, maybe Asclepias?

Hm-m-m-m, I just looked that up, and I don't think so, but as I said I just got a peek this morning.

I'll try my best to get a piccy tomorrow.
~m

Here are a couple of pics of the critter.

You can see there are white ones and pink ones too.

and the other one

The scarlet one is Lychnis chalcedonica or Scarlet Lightning. If the pink one has the same type of foliage it is Lychnis also, but I think I have seen a different species name used for it, which escapes me at the moment.

http://www.devonian.ualberta.ca/getgro18.html

I guess most people would call it Maltese Cross and the pink one would be the same with 'rosea' added to the name.

This message was edited Jun 25, 2005 9:06 AM

Thanks, echos - that's them.