Hi, rescued this plant from the New Orleans area. Would appreciate
any help in identifying this....low growth, trailing type with flowers as shown. It blooms in the morning and usually closes up during the heat of the day. Thanks!
Please help identify!
It is a wild Petunia, a variety of Ruellia, don't know exactly the type.
Josephine.
Many thanks Josephine! Lee
I believe it's the cultivar 'Blue Shade'... http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/38180/index.html
Thanks Nifty,...I believe you're exactly right.
Thanks for the hyperlink.
I have this and it is quite beautiful. Mine is the purple shade and spreads beautifully in the shade.
Blessings,
Sandy ^8^
I love this plant. It does spread by seed; however, if it comes up where you prefer it didn't, it is easily dug up and transplanted to another location. Ist blooms continually until the first hard freeze. The blooms brighten up any shady area. Also, it will take morning sun and afternoon shade as well as filtered shade.
Well,...I was amazed at its tenacity....it had been under polluted water for days....then emerged from a scraggly stem or two to become this little beautiful plant that caught my eye with a single bloom. I nurtured it for the couple of weeks I worked on "rebuilding the house" project at the time.
The owner offered whatever plants I thought I could salvage/revive...there were only a few varieties available and Blue Shade was one. It has grown rapidly with TLC and actually looks great in a large planter...cascading over the sides with multiple blooms in the morning. Thanks everyone!
Really, is it supposed to be a shade plant? That's what I thought, so I planted it in full shade last year. It just sat there. Didn't die, but didn't do anything else either. This year I moved it out with my tall ruellias in the sun, and it's finally blooming for me.
Now that I typed that out, I'll bet it gets more shade than I thought--probably from the tall ones.