ID please. . .

Okay, got this from someone somewhere in the PNW, at least I think so. Maybe it's just a weed. I don't remember planting it but here it is. What it is, please? Any idea?

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And one without flash

Also received this one...name?

I think it's possible your first plant might be a sysyrinchium? Maybe the native one? It looks exactly like some plants I got from my sister's natural pond. They grow in the shallow water and also in the soil around the edges, even up close to the forest. Have you checked your boggy area to see if there are any like it? Do you know what the flower looked like?

They look to me like sysirinchium striatum, maybe. But a little different, too. Sheri, do they look like this?

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1200/614260786_f7e9d9a0c0.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/74964058%40N00/614260786/in/set-72157600468451198/&h=342&w=500&sz=73&hl=en&start=1&sig2=HwhtYoZwqu_CUvSTUn1Bzg&um=1&tbnid=BbLh0EiJLn6DhM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=130&ei=mxGUSPasEIHIiAH_zOmyCg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsysirinchium%2Bstriatum%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

The seeds on S. striatum are very different. They go all down the stalk.
Maybe this:
http://www.paghat.com/yelloweyed.html

There is a sisyrhinicum bucattii that is this colouring, tiny little thing - but it has very clear petals, not this pompom look.

The real question is 'do you like it?', I do, and if so keep it.

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Here is Bucattii - happiest in full sun (closes up in shade), and the blossom is smaller than thumb nail size. Self seeds, but not a problem.

Sorry, I think this is a better picture

Okay. That's darling!!

That's very cute! It looks very similar to S. augustifolium, but different color.
http://plantdelights.com/Catalog/Current/Detail/04782.html

I keep meaning to get this plant since I live on Lucerne Rd.

I have blue and yellow-eyed grass. Used to have white. I like Laurie's the best.

Thank you (curtesy) - willowwind, I'm wondering if mine is a cross between the three.

Truth is, I never saw the flowers. I just assumed initially it was a freesia because that was all that was planted in the bed, until I stuck in the iris and a few others received through the generosity of all y'all. So I didn't pay attention. Didn't even notice the danged thang until I was out looking for stuff for pictures. Guess I'll just have to wait until next year and see how it does. Still haven't been to the bog to check, hopefully I'll have a few extra minutes before dark on Thursday.

Sherri - those are the seed heads? I see that now - I thought these were the blossoms. Now we all have to wait a year to find out more - sheesh.

Laurie ~ The funny thing is, I'm out there ALL the time. I look and look and look and wait and wait for the flowers, and I NEVER saw any flowers on this at all! Don't remember planting it, don't remember anything about it and how oddly random that this type of plant would show up in the freesia / iris / someotherkindofbulbplantwhichmaybesomekindoflilybuti'mnotsuresowillpostapicturelater bed! I look at it at least every other day and must have completely missed them while looking at something else! Ah. . .waiting. . .patience. . .yesssssss ~

BTW Laurie ~ I listen to NPR while driving and twice have heard the food "goddess," Nigella Lawson speak about different food-realted subjects. The first I heard was this past June when she spoke about outdoor summer dining (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91821863) and such. I cannot help but imagine you, our most beloved English Tea Rose, speaking these very words (I've never heard your voice but feel it may sound a bit like this) while sitting in your gardening togs with muck and mud and compost and goo slathered all about your entire being. While you are speaking in this most proper and elegant fashion, you are slinging your trowel about and the above-mentioned muck, et. al., is flying about the interviewers head while she is ducking and dodging each sling. Each time I hear her I picture this in my head and laugh out loud. People must think I'm utterly mad because I only listen to NPR while I'm driving. . . Please take 7-1/4 minutes out of your busy schedule to listen to the above link and either confirm or discount my notion ~

Nigella Lawson is definately goddess status in this country - I must find a picture for you - she is goddess! Curves to die for, luscious big raven locks, and lips painted cherry red, and high cultured voice. Oh how I yearn to sound and look like her - most women do, and most men wish they would too. Think Marilyn Monroe with dark hair and an appetite. Now married to one of the richest of cultured males - Charles Saatchii of the art collection. Interestingly, and I say this from a psychoanalytic perspective, he has gone on a radical diet (not telling his regime) and lost billions of physical pounds. Was he afraid of no longer being alpha male to all the young bucks out there - or is he lashing out at the lashings of rich food darling wifey prepares? Who knows? Only his analyst could tell. They are a fascinating couple.

Please, keep thinking I sound like that - definately hold that image. It is nice to have a partner in my fondest fantasies.

Here is a couple of the sassy of the pictures of Nigella Lawson - she has made being a size delicious!

http://www.theothersideofkim.com/index.php/beauties/9996/

This is the one I was looking for - her website

http://www.nigella.com/

She is just gorgeous. Sadly, I'm blonde, I have a blonde's eyebrows. I'm never going to look like this.

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Outtamygourd-I think it might be one of the rushes(Juncus effusus,maybe)The flower is a brownish color & becomes the fruiting body with little change visually.

Ned - good to hear from you. Glad everything went well and that you're on the mend!!

Thanks,Katie.

Good heavens! She is fabulous!

Isn't she - and absolutely lives up to the pictures! Just fabulous. She is just so pro- luscious life!

Sheri -

Did you ever get a definitive answer as to what this was?

Wow! Nigella Lawson is a whole new topic, isn't she? OOOOH! That strawberry meringue thing...to die for!

Oh, velveteena, she would love being referred to as a strawberry meringue - oh, sorry, were you referring to her recipes?

Kathy ~ Nope. . .and the danged thing keeps putting up those little seed head looking flowers. The older ones are beginning to harden and feel like seed heads now, but look just the same (maybe a little darker is all). Guess I'll just have to call her 'Jane Doe!'

Laurie ~ LOL. I wouldn't mind being called Strawberry Meringue, but definitely more meringue than strawberry here! = O

Well, whatever she is I want some. Let's see if she provides seedlings.

I'm surprised at the plant id forum - seems like there's always somebody who knows . . .

Outtamygourd-it is one of the rushes-a Juncus spp..Look up J.mertensianus,J.falcatus,J ensifolius.See if any of those fit yours.

I do really like it. but it would be nice to have a name - hope Nedhudson is right.

Hey Ned -

I did look these up when you initially posted about them. But it seems to me that the rushes have a round leaf rather than a flat leaf. Am I missing something?

Boy, after looking at some of the pictures of the subspecies you've listed, it sure looks like they are close. For these, the leaves of the rushes are flat - they are a cool plant.

Do you have any of them on your property?

No,Katie,but I've seen them in watery ditches & around swampy areas.

I never saw this plant listed in the Plant ID forum.It should have been ID'd right away.

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Hmmmm. I thought I had. Maybe I just thought I'd seen it there . . .

I'm still looking around the Internet at the various rushes - it's a lovely plant!! No doubt I'll see more around here now that I know what I'm looking at.

If she put it in on August 1,I missed it as I was travelling home.Didn't look in there until August 4.

Okay. . .just googled and it sure looks like J. ensifolius. Could very well be. What strikes me as odd, however, is that if it is a volunteer (I truly don't remember planting it and am pretty sure it didn't come to me in a trade), why is it the only one there? Why aren't there others around. It's not a marshy area at all, it's right up next to the house in the freesia/iris/montbretia bed. Only wet when I water it.

^_^ A tweety bird might have pooped a seed.

Okay...I can live with that. ^_^

Having, literally, just been reading about Theophratus and Pliny and their early research and cataloguing of plants and plantings (I'm reading Pavord's book on the naming of plants), I love the use of technical terms on this thread like 'pooping'. Just makes that link across millennia. Well done, they would be proud! (smiling smiling - love it)!