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Name this plant and flower?

1stusha
Mag 12, 2016, 7:12 pm


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I found this growing in the greenhouse this spring. I am trying to identify it and I keep looking around the Web and it shows pictures of Glechoma Hederacea a Ground Ivy. The flower looks different than any I find photos of so far. Does anyone recognize this plant?

This was put into my junk drawer and hope this is working now.

2NorthernStar
Mag 12, 2016, 7:48 pm

Your picture doesn't come up here, but I was able to paste the url into another browser window to see it. I don't know what it is, but it is not Glechoma Hederacea (I know it as creeping charlie). That has a small (2cm) leaf on long trailing or creeping stems. The flowers are very different, and more purple than blue. I speak from experience, as my lawn is full of it.

3stusha
Mag 12, 2016, 7:56 pm

Thank you for your input. last night the flower was beginning to open and it was deep purple. But with the morning light it appears more vivid blue. And the center is white! I am trying to find other species photos of similar flowers.

4southernbooklady
Mag 12, 2016, 8:11 pm

That looks like some kind of cranesbill geranium to me.

5stusha
Mag 12, 2016, 9:08 pm

I will continue to look into that plant too. thanks.

6Lyndatrue
Mag 12, 2016, 10:06 pm

That leaf really looks like an Ivy Geranium. It is not a Cranesbill (which has a more delicate looking flower, and much smaller leaf). For ease of the next person to see this thread, here's the picture:



I've grown Ivy Geranium before (many times), but have never seen that color. It's quite lovely. Where do you live? It will help in the identification of this.

7stusha
Mag 14, 2016, 11:49 pm

Thanks for the photo. And I have continued my search online again. I live in British Columbia, Canada near Hazelton. This was growing in a greenhouse and I put it into a pot. Many times we put the soil from plants in flowerpots into the greenhouse soil. I thought it may be a domestic species after I have looked around through many wildflower lists without finding something similar. Maybe even thought it could be a cross of something. I have Veronica Speedwell right out the door, but it has spikes. Other Veronica's (persica) only have 4 petals, but same colouring. I just planted a little wild Cranesbill in the flowerbed last summer. It is pale lavender and delicate, but it survived the winter. I'll keep looking around. It sometimes takes awhile to find the plants that I don't know and have volunteered up. I am grateful for all the suggestions while on the watch for this flower's name.

82wonderY
Mag 15, 2016, 5:45 am

That is quite a shade of blue! More intense that 'Johnson Blue' and with huge white anthers. It doesn't look anything similar to what I can pull up.

9NorthernStar
Mag 15, 2016, 10:08 am

I was at our local garden centre yesterday and saw what I think is your flower. Labelled as bacopa, it also comes in white. Looks like it is an annual, used for hanging baskets and planters.

10varielle
Apr 15, 2017, 2:57 pm

Can anyone identify this? it's growing wild all over our mountain in western NC. It's on a sort of dwarf tree. Yellow and fuzzy when it opens completely. The bees and butterflies love it.

11lesmel
Lug 6, 2017, 6:24 pm

Anyone have a guess for this? Growing in Gainesville, FL.



Couple more photos if you click the photo...

122wonderY
Modificato: Giu 5, 2019, 9:27 am

>10 varielle: Is that witch hazel?

Probably not though... I'm only familiar with witch hazel second hand. But it would bloom very early and before leaf-out. And examining google images, the buds are brown and husk-like, not yellow.

13varielle
Giu 5, 2019, 3:38 pm

It looks like it has to be some variety of witch hazel, my goggle pics came up with similar yellow blossoms.

142wonderY
Giu 19, 2019, 11:00 am

Is this also a crabapple? It looks so different from the others in my yard.

15varielle
Giu 19, 2019, 11:47 am

I don't think so. Crabapple leaves are more elongated and pointy. Did it bloom?

162wonderY
Giu 19, 2019, 12:06 pm

Sure it did, hence the fruit. ;) But they were just white blooms and I failed to pay enough attention.

I have two trees that are definitely crabapples, one with pointy leaves and full of small fruit. The other has leaves shaped more like this one, but the fruit is the larger inch & a half size with rosy interiors that I posted a while back.

17varielle
Modificato: Giu 19, 2019, 12:16 pm

I'm thinking it might be a Bradford pear. Did it have a stinky smell when it bloomed?

182wonderY
Giu 19, 2019, 12:20 pm

>17 varielle: Oh! Very good - you hit it right the first time!

I'm mostly gone from this property during daylight hours, so I don't get out and appreciate it much anymore.

Anyway, it's one of the volunteers in the NW corner, so I should think about it's appropriateness.

192wonderY
Giu 19, 2019, 12:27 pm

Ooh. They are really a hated tree in some circles!

202wonderY
Giu 20, 2019, 7:51 am

Interestingly, yesterday someone in my real world mentioned having to clean up a Bradford pear tree that had split and disintegrated on one of his properties.

I went and peered around my yard again, and discovered I have two of them. One is so big it has branches scraping my gutters way up high.

21Jeanne2254
Giu 21, 2019, 2:19 am

It's definitely a geranium but a very unusual one. I've never seen a blue geranium before.

22MarthaJeanne
Giu 21, 2019, 2:32 am

>21 Jeanne2254: Are you talking about the picture at >6 Lyndatrue:?

23Jeanne2254
Giu 22, 2019, 2:01 am

Yes. The leaves are 100% geranium leaves, but the flower is unlike any geranium I've seen so far.

24Yamanekotei
Dic 11, 2019, 2:37 pm

>6 Lyndatrue:

I searched it on iNaturalist app, and it turned out to be a Desert Bluebells (Phacelia campanularia). What I didn’t expect was that it’s on the IUCN Red List vulnerable species!

25Lyndatrue
Dic 11, 2019, 3:07 pm

>24 Yamanekotei: Dang. Three years is a long time for an answer, but I'm grateful for it. It's still a beautiful plant.

262wonderY
Mar 25, 2022, 3:31 pm



Saw this in a campus flower bed. The flowers look like Bells of Ireland, but don't they flower much later in the season? And I'm confused by the base cluster of leaves.

It sits at the back of the bed and might be a volunteer or something left over from another planting season. I'm tempted to "liberate" it.

27MsMixte
Mar 25, 2022, 10:51 pm

>26 2wonderY: Does it have milky sap? It looks like one of the spurges.

282wonderY
Mar 26, 2022, 8:49 am

>27 MsMixte: I think you are correct. I will check the sap next time I go by.

292wonderY
Apr 2, 2022, 9:17 pm

>27 MsMixte: No milky sap. Hmmm. Since they really do look like volunteers, I liberated a small specimen. They seemed to be all connected by stolons underground.

30MsMixte
Apr 2, 2022, 10:01 pm

>29 2wonderY: Interesting! Can you get a better photo of the individual flower? Sure does look like a spurge or euphorbia.

31mstrust
Mag 12, 2022, 1:55 pm

I've used the app PlantNet many times to identify mysteries. Free to join and download on your phone, you just pick the plant category you want searched, enter a pic of the plant, and the app responds with a short list of the most likely identification along with pics of that species. It's how I found out that the tree growing in my backyard was an African Sumac. Never would have come up with that myself.

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