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Janet metzger on May 05, 2012looks to be in the Foxglove familyHelpful Reply
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Mary S on May 05, 2012Lupines?Helpful Reply
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Shelby W on May 05, 2012foxglove/digitalis, I concur :)Helpful Reply
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Walter Reeves on May 05, 2012obedient plant Physostegia purpureaHelpful Reply
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Mary S on May 05, 2012It does look more like foxglove....I just looked at ours outside...not LupinesHelpful Reply
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Andi K on May 05, 2012confident that it's foxglove latin name...digitalisHelpful Reply
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Jennifer H on May 05, 2012yep. foxglove. Digitalis!Helpful Reply
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Andi K on May 05, 2012a picture of the lower leaves/foliage would give better IDHelpful Reply
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June W on May 05, 2012It is definitely Obedient plant. It is very invasive. I have to pull out tons of them every spring and just leave what I want.Helpful Reply
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Neva F on May 05, 2012I would say foxglove but it's a little early in VA.Helpful Reply
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Cindy F on May 05, 2012Looks like Obedient plant to me only it blooms in MI in Aug.-Sept.Helpful Reply
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Tina H on May 05, 2012Obedient plant!Helpful Reply
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Judith O on May 05, 2012No, It IS an Obedient plant and I'd stake my life on that. They do spread like crazy but can be pulled out easily as they aren't deep rooted. They are great for a shaded corner and bloom in the FALL. Give some to your friends. www.glenviewgardeners.orgHelpful Reply
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Brenda A on May 05, 2012looks like Veronica (speedwell) ? also looks like the Foxglove, Scrophulariaceae (digitalis) but early, (blooms May-Sept.)Helpful Reply
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Val L on May 05, 2012Just looked it up in my book, yest it is obedient plant.Helpful Reply
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Terry on May 05, 2012Obedient Plant or False Dradonhead (Physostegia virginiana) got its common name because you can bend the individual flowers in any direction you like. It does grow like wildfire....but it's great for filling a large empty space that is mostly shady and wet. It is about 2' tall and will multiply about 3' per yr.Helpful Reply
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Eulalia on May 05, 2012Definitely obedient plant.Helpful Reply
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Carol M on May 05, 2012wish I had some in my garden. just the right look..Helpful Reply
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Lily on May 05, 2012FoxgloveHelpful Reply
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Becky P on May 05, 2012Looks like Turtlehead or Obedient PlantHelpful Reply
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Colleen C on May 05, 2012obedient plant . I used to grow some.Helpful Reply
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Lynda F on May 05, 2012I believe this a foxglove at least it looks like the last one I had in my yard.Helpful Reply
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Susan S on May 05, 2012Well, whatever it is, I KNOW I have Foxglove and it definitely is blooming! @Neva S. - Montross is part of the Richmond vicinity so we're not too far apart and my FG is blooming right now. Might depend on where yours is located and how much sun it gets. @Susan P - in Stafford. Oh yeah - another Va. girl and you're REALLY close!! ;~)Helpful Reply
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Jeanne B on May 05, 2012I love this plant, so beautiful I would never destroy!Helpful Reply
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Cindy M on May 05, 2012Thank you all, it looks like obedient plant, according to google images.Helpful Reply
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Mary G on May 05, 2012It's obedient plant, and you will see more and more and more if you don't contain it. I have it at the top and bottom of an incline. The top grows to about 36" but the bottom gets less sun and stays at 18-24". They have newer hybrids now that aren't as invasive.Helpful Reply
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Terry F on May 05, 2012Obedient Plant is quite the misnomer. If anything, it is NOT obedient in any way. I don't have it in my gardens any more as it's way too invasive and it's kind of a lanky, unruly plant.Helpful Reply
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Susan B on May 05, 2012Try the version "Miss Manners". It's an obedient plant that is actually obedient -- forms a clump and stays put.Helpful Reply
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Colleen L on May 05, 2012The flower looks kind of like Honeysuckle.Helpful Reply
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Carol S on May 05, 2012looks like a foxglove.Helpful Reply
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Mary anne Z on May 05, 2012i think it looks like foxgloveHelpful Reply
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Geri M on May 05, 2012I do believe it is the Turtlehead plant. I had one in my wildflower bed at my old house.Helpful Reply
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John W on May 05, 2012obedient plantHelpful Reply
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Laura G on May 05, 2012could it be a Hosta bloom?Helpful Reply
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Kelly S on May 05, 2012Looks like the foxglove that volunteered in my back yard. Don't let animals or children get a hold of it. Foxglove is where they get digitalis, the heart drug. It can kill if ingested.Helpful Reply
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Sandra R on May 05, 2012It really looks like an obedient plant. A picture of the bottom foliage would help. Does it spread through the roots?Helpful Reply
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Cindy M on May 05, 2012It just appeared this year, in a spot that if it spreads is no big deal, so we're going to keep it and see what happens. It's also mixed in with mint. Literally a wild garden area. Thanks again everybody!Helpful Reply
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BONNIE J on May 05, 2012HONEYSUKLE IS A VINE. OBEDIENT PLANT IS QUITE UNRULY IT SEEMS!Helpful Reply
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Judy W on May 05, 2012Here we call these foxglove. I have found it easier to have wildflower gardens, they are so much easier to have and always give me surprises as to color. A big plus has been -----NO WEEDING and more time to enjoy the garden. The foxglove provides such a great background for the wild violets, spider wort, along with the jack in the pulpit, verbenas, wild mint, and pink primroses.Helpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on May 06, 2012Foxglove, or Digitalis, is a different plant. The blooms are not as outfacing as on the somewhat ironically named obedient plant, or Physotegia.Helpful Reply
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Jean M on May 06, 2012looks like foxglove to me :)Helpful Reply
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Phyllis P on May 06, 2012Yes, foxglove - or digitalis is the botannical name.Helpful Reply
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Debi M on May 06, 2012Foxgloves make a nice backdrop in a mixed flower garden because of their height.Helpful Reply
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Gloria W on May 06, 2012Beard TongueHelpful Reply
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Judy W on May 07, 2012Just found the handiest website---uswildflowers.com You can search their database by state, identification of flowers made simple divided by color. Books, websites, journals, maps of areas found, etc. Also common names (average of at least 4 for every flower listed so everybody is right) ----Except the buttercup. buttercup is only yellow.Helpful Reply
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Debi M on May 07, 2012Gloria K, Dragon Tongue (Beard Tongue) has much smaller flowers and does not grow quite as tall as Foxglove I plant Dragon Tongue in front of Foxglove so I am very familiar with it. Also Dragon Tongue has a "spike" with the flowers on it, where as FoxGlove has leaves and flowers on the same stemHelpful Reply
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Gloria W on May 07, 2012It sure is not foxglove...cause I've got them planted dosen't look anything like this. Did some research and it is the OBEDIENT PLANT. Which comes in white and pink .Helpful Reply
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Janet metzger on May 07, 2012http://www.northcreeknurseries.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/plants.plantDetail/plant_id/241/index.htmHelpful Reply
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Angela G on May 07, 2012Foxgloves...love them!Helpful Reply
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Linda G on May 07, 2012DigitalisHelpful Reply
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Beverly P on May 07, 2012Foxglove, same thing.Helpful Reply
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Carol M on May 08, 2012obedient plant has it! I have both fox glove & obedient plant. Obedient is just a little more fragile than fox glove that groves wild here.Both are beautiful in my garden..Helpful Reply
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Beverly P on May 15, 2012You are right, foxglove does look so similar that it is onviously easy to confuse. Guess I better go back to school huh? Lol...sorry for faux pas.Helpful Reply
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Debi M on May 16, 2012Whatever it is, it is beautiful, wish I had some in my gardenHelpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on May 16, 2012Debi, you could certainly grow obedient plant in North Carolina.Helpful Reply
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Sandra R on May 16, 2012I have so many I have to pull them out! I'm replanting them along the woods line. They can go nuts there.Helpful Reply
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Jenni C. on Jan 31, 2015Obedient plant...I have them in a fuscia tone.Helpful Reply
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Bkgriffga on Feb 01, 2015Its Digitalis,or common name FoxgloveHelpful Reply
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Wanda sinnema on Apr 19, 2015OBEDIENT plant, come in pale pinks-lavender and white..They are anything but what the name implies.. great ground cover for a shaded side. plant one and next year its 3 ft. next year its 5 ft... easy to pull up, travel on underground runners..so be careful where you put them.. I love them in arrangements.. My white one is about 12 in high, lavender is about 3 ft, pink mid size..I stake my lavender one otherwise with wind it can flop over.. BEEs LOVE them, great next to a veg garden.... for pollination.Helpful Reply
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Pam Kaiser on Apr 26, 2015Obedient plant. It is in the mint family so can be invasive, but very pretty I think. It is not related to Foxglove.Helpful Reply
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Mimi Haywood on Apr 27, 2015Beard Tounge known also as False Foxglove from Figwort Family Penstemon genus, very closely resembles the Obedient Plant also known as False Dragonhead which prefers moist soil while the Beard Toungue which grows wild also,I found growing roadside just past the lava flows in the New Mexico mostly dry semi-desert. Gathered seed and brought them home to try in the mountains. Time will tell.Helpful Reply
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Verilea poole on May 18, 2015FoxgloveHelpful Reply
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Jean M on May 22, 2015don't let your cat or dog chew it up if you have either. :(....bad for them.Helpful Reply
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BettyLou on Jun 04, 2015I thought it was Foxglove, son has quite a few of them. Our dogs seem to leave them alone. Have not heard of other names, but I don't know a lot about them. Tried to get some of the seeds into one of my flower beds by placing stem on dirt but think the seeds had already been spent so no flowers this year in my bed. Son still had blooms though.Helpful Reply
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Katherine on Jun 27, 2015That's definitely obedient plant. I call it disobedient plant because the dark pink/purple ones are outrageously invasive! They send runners under the soil and pop up everywhere! The white ones are NOT invasive.Helpful Reply
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Wanda sinnema on Jun 27, 2015agree with Katherine from NC.. Obedient plant.. comes in white, pale pink, lavender, maybe more.. My white one IS invasive..... make nice filler in arrangements.. the lavender one I have grown about 4 ft tall,,Helpful Reply
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Wbirnbaum on Sep 19, 2015obedient plant - available in pink and also whiteHelpful Reply
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Laura on Jun 16, 2016Definitely a foxglove. The drug digitalis is derived from this plant.Helpful Reply
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Debra Spencer on Jun 21, 2016Digitalis Foxy, aka: foxglove . The drug digitalis was derived from this plant .....can be poisonous if ingestedHelpful Reply
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Brenda on Jun 21, 2016FoxgloveHelpful Reply
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Patricia Harris on Jun 23, 2016It's definitely a foxglove, my mother had them in her garden when I was a child, I am 70 now and still remember them, they're gorgeous.Helpful Reply
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Patricia Harris on Jun 23, 2016I don't know where they got Canada from? I'm English and live in Spain!!!Helpful Reply
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Carey on Oct 08, 2016If it is a large plant it is Foxglove. If it is a similar shape but a small flower not a heavy Stem with large leaves it may be an obedient plant. The obedient plant has small bell shaped flowers that bloom up the stem in succession. The Foxglove has a large bell shipped flower that also blooms up the stem in succession but tends to have more flowers in bloom at a time. IT is also a Bi-annual which means that it grows on year, blooms the next and then dies. I didn't have much success with it seeding and continuing to propagate but the Obedient plant seeds prolifically and multiplies quickly. Do a google search for https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&r... or https://www.google.com/search?q=Obedient+Plan... for photo's of foxglove and then obedient plant. My first thought was Foxglove, but after looking at the picture, I wonder if it isn't actually an Obedient PlantHelpful Reply
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Sue Kiene on Oct 23, 2016my thought was obedient plant as well.Helpful Reply
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Stephanie corley on Oct 23, 2016It looks like an obedient. You can bend the stem and it will remain bent for a good while thus the name....Helpful Reply
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