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Adrienne Sajecki on Jul 18, 2013Here is a link to USF horticultural info on it. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/lh044 they have chemicals listed to use. Good Luck! All this rain we have had, we are getting some type of fungus also!Helpful Reply
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Tami @ Curb Alert! on Jul 18, 2013Thanks Adriene! I'll check it out.Helpful Reply
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Elizabeth Hamaty on Jul 18, 2013they look like balloon flowers. A friend of mine has tons growing near a tank, her dad brings huge bunches home for her momHelpful Reply
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Tami @ Curb Alert! on Jul 18, 2013Balloon Flowers? I'll have to look that one up! Thanks Elizabeth :)Helpful Reply
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Ouina on Jul 19, 2013From the pictures they look like Texas Bluebells. Go to Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Research Center's website. They have a lot of information on wildflowers and how to propagate. Also how to grow in your garden. I think this wildflower is the prettiest wildflower Central Texas has - they are spectacular and used to be endangered. Lots of luck!Helpful Reply
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Meg on Jul 20, 2013Those look exactly like the balloon flowers that I've put in a number of my flower beds! They're wonderful and not invasive (at least not here in Ohio). I collected seeds from one of my plants last year and was able to grow some in the back yard as well! I would LOVE to have them as neighbors!!!Helpful Reply
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Ginger Mosley, Realtor with UTR-Texas Realtors LLC on Jul 20, 2013Tami, I commented to you a few days ago and somehow it didn't post... Sorry. My mom and I used to pick these when I was a kid and she called them bluebells too. Now after having been a florist for almost 20yrs I know they are in the same family as lisianthus. How blessed you are that your new home is near a field of them! Brought back such sweet memories. Thank you 😊Helpful Reply
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Kelly Baird on Jul 20, 2013Those are definitely Texas Bluebells. Native wildflowers, they grow in fields, and are disappearing with development. Don't mow them down, they are so pretty. Good cut flowers too!Helpful Reply
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Su on Jul 20, 2013I just pick wild flowers the ones that are mostly all bloomed out and throw them into my bed they go to seed and next year there they are blooming....would love to have these I lived in TX my whole life but never saw these guess I was living in a part that these didn't grow...very prettyHelpful Reply
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June on Jul 20, 2013Thought it was platycodon (also balloon flower) but on closer look, I'm wrong. They are so pretty!Helpful Reply
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June on Jul 20, 2013hit this by mistakeHelpful Reply
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Phyllis Naab Campofelice on Jul 20, 2013looks like lisianthis to me.Helpful Reply
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Mikell Paulson on Jul 20, 2013Phyllis, That is what I thought too! Lisianthis! Texas bluebell are in the family of Lupine! Different leaves!!Helpful Reply
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Nancy Christopher-Morrison on Jul 20, 2013They are definitely Lisianthus or Eustoma. Also known as Prairie Gentian or Texas Bluebell. Wonderful that you can find it in the wild, the hybrid varieties are fuller and larger. I have to start my seed in January and hope to have germination to have flowers by July. ( for Washington State) I also buy plugs from e-bay and purchased over 300 this year ( I resell most) so I am very familiar with this plant. If you try to buy them as a plant check out Burbees...$29.99 for 12 + 8.95 for shipping. Check out this link....http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/204510/Helpful Reply
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Gladys Rhoads on Jul 20, 2013they grew as wid flowers with the buttercup in the spring in Washington state and went in the May day baskets every year when I was a child.Helpful Reply
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Cheryl R on Jul 20, 2013TEXAS BLUEBELLS http://www.texasgardener.com/pastissues/julaug02/blue.htmlHelpful Reply
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Paula Landua on Jul 20, 2013Texas Bluebell. They are very pretty, almost disappeared at one time here in Texas.Helpful Reply
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Kristin Peltonen on Jul 20, 2013Purple Loosestrife plantHelpful Reply
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Nancy Kruse on Jul 20, 2013not purple loosestrife - those are more of a reddish purpleHelpful Reply
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Shawn B on Jul 20, 2013Prairie Gentian/Texas Bluebells/Eustoma grandiflorum/Lisianthus is what they are. Lovely.Helpful Reply
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Catherine F on Jul 20, 2013I say bluebellsHelpful Reply
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Cathy Isabel-Johnson on Jul 20, 2013lisianthus is my guess. Been in the florist industry for many years. Love this cut flower !!Helpful Reply
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Laverda Gluszek on Jul 20, 2013I would say they are "BLUE BELLS" DO I WIN?Helpful Reply
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Carol on Jul 20, 2013Are they Texas bluebonnets?Helpful Reply
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Tami @ Curb Alert! on Jul 20, 2013Guys, thank you so much for your input. It is so helpful! :)Helpful Reply
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Bonnie Moore on Jul 20, 2013I am sorry after a closer look I find I was totally wrong not horsemintHelpful Reply
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Helen M on Jul 20, 2013Lisianthus, they are beautiful.Helpful Reply
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Nanci Burroughs on Jul 20, 2013A form of wild lisianthusHelpful Reply
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Angie W on Jul 20, 2013This is Texas BlubellHelpful Reply
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Angie W on Jul 20, 2013This is Baloon flowerHelpful Reply
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Angie W on Jul 20, 2013I'd say Texas Blubells...Helpful Reply
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Jamie Wade-Matlock on Jul 20, 2013They are growing around here in pastures all over. I love them!Helpful Reply
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Theresa on Jul 20, 2013Lisianthus!Helpful Reply
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Kay C on Jul 20, 2013Whatever they are...I am in Missouri and have some that look a lot like these but smaller by my creek..and we call them blue bonnets..I tried to transplant them but difficult by time I get home their wilted..will consider the seed gathering...wanna swap...Helpful Reply
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Betty Wilmott on Jul 20, 2013Definitely Blue Bell which is the State flower of Texas. Despite the name some due appear to be purple. You will see a lot of them in the wild here in TX especially when in the country areas such as Cleveland, just about all of Parker and Kaufman counties, Where did you find it?Helpful Reply
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Candace Seaton on Jul 20, 2013Looks like lisianthus, which I have tried and failed to grow many times.Helpful Reply
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Tina Richardson on Jul 21, 2013Sorry, Betty Wilmott, but Blue Bell are not the Texas State Flower....that would be the Blue Bonnet as Our (Texas) State Flower.Helpful Reply
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Myrna Engle on Jul 21, 2013They are Prairie Gentains BluebellsHelpful Reply
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Nancy Vance on Jul 21, 2013Lisianthus beautiful as a cut flowerHelpful Reply
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June on Jul 21, 2013Went to lisianthus and on the side was a picture of eustoma. That certainly looks like what you have and fits the description. What do you think?Helpful Reply
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Gwenyth Mumford on Jul 21, 2013I agree with Angie W. Texas Blubell.Helpful Reply
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Pat Dareneau on Jul 21, 2013not Blue Bonnet. there is a Painted Sage in Texas .Helpful Reply
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April E on Jul 21, 2013lisianthus or texas bluebell its a awesome wild flower down there aand a great cultivated garden and florist flower in many other areasHelpful Reply
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Mikell Paulson on Jul 21, 2013Blue Bonnets are from the lupine family That flower is is not a Blue bonnet! Might be a blue bell' but it looks like Lisianthus!Helpful Reply
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Donna James on Jul 21, 2013This looks like Prairie Gentian or Prarie Bluebell (Eustoma exaltatum). See: http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=EUEX5Helpful Reply
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Hazel Munnis on Jul 21, 2013BLUEBONNETS are the STATE FLOWER of TEXAS!!!!!Helpful Reply
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Rick Meszaros on Jul 21, 2013you are all wrong. its a plant growing in a pasture. A pasture is for cows. cows eat plants in a pasture Then they poop plants in the pasture. Therefore they can only be: purple poop plantsHelpful Reply
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Judy Johnson Wilson on Jul 21, 2013I checked your link Donna James and you are absolutely right. Eustoma exaltatum (L.) Salisb. ex G. Don, Catchfly prairie gentian, Bluebell gentian, Western blue gentian, Blue marsh lily, Small bluebell, Catchfly gentian, Seaside gentian Gentianaceae (Gentian Family It goes by many names. But this is certainly the same flower that is in question here.Helpful Reply
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Angie W on Jul 21, 2013After looking and comparing pictures, I think Donna James has it....Here are both pics... The ones Tami ask about and Donna's...I think we have a match...Look at the shape of the flower, and the inside colors and the height ...Helpful Reply
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Carolyn Davis on Jul 22, 2013To Betty Wilmott; the state flower of TX is the Bluebonnet.Helpful Reply
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April E on Jul 23, 2013@Carolyn Davis actually it is texas blue bell or lisianthus the botanical is Eustoma russellianum bluebonnet which is the texas state flower is Lupinus texensis and a very different flowerHelpful Reply
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