Anyone know what flowers these are?
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Jeanne Benedict on Sep 13, 2013SpiderwartHelpful Reply
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Sensible Gardening and Living on Sep 13, 2013Carol it is spiderwort, proper name is Tradescantia.Helpful Reply
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Laura D on Sep 13, 2013Tradescantia and it spreads profusely if you don't keep the flowers from going to seed.Helpful Reply
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TJ on Sep 13, 2013In the northern climes, it is fairly easy to keep it in check. But it is so pretty, that I love when it pops up here and there. I just pull out any that show up where I don't want them. They are a native plants over a good portion of the US.Helpful Reply
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Sandi Maurer on Sep 15, 2013love these spiderwort plants still blooming away in Sept around Ohio !! Enjoy you flowers!!!Helpful Reply
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Rose S on Sep 15, 2013definitely Spiderworth. I ave several varieties. I cut mine back when they get "stalky" and then have a second crop now in September. They can become invasive.Helpful Reply
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Cheryl stanley on Sep 15, 2013I always think of my great grandmas garden when I see spiderwort. I have the variegated variety.Helpful Reply
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NancyLee on Sep 15, 2013Yes, spiderwort - beautiful blue flowers - mine multiplies but not invasive.Helpful Reply
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Cheryl Hudson on Sep 15, 2013This grows wild in SC. I've seen it in a lot of places.Helpful Reply
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Jeanette S on Sep 15, 2013I don't know it's name, but I unwisely did not listen to my mother-in-law who warned me not to take a piece of it for my yard! I have recently spent 2 years in an effort to eradicate every piece (I hope I got it all)! It not only spreads, it goes airborne! You can cover it with black plastic if you do not want to spray it (I am not opposed to spraying, covering, digging...the only method I did not use was a shotgun blast!) You will learn to HATE IT!Helpful Reply
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Judy on Sep 15, 2013Spiderwort, AKA Widow's Tears. Mine are more purple than blue but same plant.Helpful Reply
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Sally Cuzzort on Sep 15, 2013Uh oh, we just planted some that my aunt gave us, in two different locations.Helpful Reply
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Marilyn on Sep 15, 2013I have the same ones only in white. I've wondered what they were.Helpful Reply
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Anne on Sep 15, 2013This is definitely Spiderwort. They don't transplant well at all; at least mine did not. It just popped up in my yard up North in about 5 places. It didn't seem invasive and except for the 2 that were in the middle of my lawn area, I enjoyed having it. Tried to move them one by one and they all died. I have since seen them to buy.Helpful Reply
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Patti on Sep 15, 2013I have been trying to get this plant out of my yard. I got it many years ago and thought I got it all. Just this past week they have popped everywhere and are in bloom. They are taking over my garden. How do I get rid of them. I pull them up and try to get all the roots, they run underground forever, They are beautifully blooming right now and it is ashame to pull them out but I have no choice.Helpful Reply
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Cathe on Sep 15, 2013Mine grow wild......here.Helpful Reply
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Cheryl stanley on Sep 16, 2013this is so interesting! I planted my spiderwort in the flowerbed with the other flowers 6 years ago and it hasn't spread at all. it is a healthy plant and blooms beautifully year after year. it is a well behaved plant!Helpful Reply
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Brenda on Sep 16, 2013I love spiderwort. The first time I saw spiderwort it was growing wild and very invasive on in-laws property had no idea where it came from it just appeared after they had lived there for 20 years, at this time we were also living there. We moved back to our house 40 miles away 12 years ago and I transplanted 3 starts in different flower beds at that time, they come up each year but only 1 start has spread just a little and not what I would call invasive at all as I haven't had to remove any. But when the weather gets real hot (90 + degrees) it seems to die out for the season but will come back the following year. This year we didn't have 90 degrees until late summer so I had spiderwort longer then previous years and it was beautiful.Helpful Reply
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Carol Speake - The Gardening Cook on Sep 16, 2013thanks for all the replies. Much appreciated! CarolHelpful Reply
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Shelby24019 on Sep 17, 2013Carol, just in case you are looking for the Botanical name, it is Tradescantia and they come in colors of white, pink, blue, purple and mauve. Just in the last few years they have developed one called "Sweet Kate" which is one of my favorite plants. Beautiful lemon-lime leaves and bight blue flowers. I'm including a picture of mine. Any new ones I have to show up I give them too friends that have plenty of space.Helpful Reply
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Julie Johnson on Sep 17, 2013Tradescantia ... lovely herbaceous perennial, flowers over a long period and non invasive :)Helpful Reply
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Heidi @ Heidi Ho-rticulture on Sep 17, 2013When mine go limp, I cut back the floppy leaves and then new leaves emerge from the base.Helpful Reply
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Helen Altman on Sep 20, 2013This appears to be spiderwort. I have a plant which came from my grandmother's plant years ago. She was born in 1880.Helpful Reply
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Flowerscapes Garden Design & Landscaping on Sep 01, 2014I planted spiderwort at the edge of the back of my pond. I love it but wish the Hotlanta summer did not exhaust it so much.Helpful Reply
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Marie Powers on Jul 07, 2015It looks like spiderwart to meHelpful Reply
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Marilyn on Aug 03, 2015Mine is white.Helpful Reply
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Terie Morton on Sep 07, 2015Spiderwort, I put mine into a square tomatoe cage early in season. Keeps them from drooping and makes them last all summer!Helpful Reply
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Martha Campbell on Sep 07, 2015Yep. Spiderwort.Helpful Reply
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Coc5929059 on Jul 31, 2016It's spiderswort..... A very old perennial.... It will come up in a crack in a sidewalk... It reseeds itself if not cut back ..... Cut back & it blooms all season ....it will be around for many years.. I love it ...Helpful Reply
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Rose S on Aug 01, 2016Spiderwort, the bane of my garden! I eradicate it every year. I think. But next year it is back "in Spades". I admit, nice blue flowers, nut if you don't cut them back regularly, they will take over and pop up in distant places. Who knew that it could fly!Helpful Reply
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Jan on Oct 21, 2016My parents have this plant and I always thought it was a weed. It won't die!Helpful Reply
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Kra264911 on Oct 21, 2016Very invasiveHelpful Reply
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Norma on Oct 22, 2016Tradiscancia/ not so invasive in northern zones (common name : spiderwort )Helpful Reply
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MargaretHoulihan on Oct 22, 2016Tradescantia. Also known as spiderwort. Also comes in white, purple/pink and light pink. Mine have never been invasive. Live in New JerseyHelpful Reply
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Elizabeth on Oct 22, 2016Spiderwort. I love the color!Helpful Reply
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Liz Schaechterle on Oct 22, 2016Spider wortHelpful Reply
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Msj12408729 on Oct 23, 2016Spiderwort, I believe.Helpful Reply
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Shana on Oct 23, 2016Spiderwort is also poisonous.Helpful Reply
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Shari Coppinger on Oct 24, 2016Spiderwort it is! I'm in Massachusetts. I planted it in light shade and it spread a little like many matured plants. Two years ago it seeded on the opposite side of the walk in a lot of sun and started to bloom almost continually! I love it! I haven't found any white ones to adopt yet. I haven't found any list that calls them poisonous. Could you tell me please?Helpful Reply
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Ruth Gamerdinger on Oct 24, 2016we always called them snake flowers- grew wild-Helpful Reply
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Bettie on Oct 27, 2016Spider wort VERY INVASIVEHelpful Reply
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Rose S on Oct 28, 2016Yes, Spiderworth, and most invasive. Silly me, several years ago I thought that they added such a nice "spark", and now I am trying to "put the fire out" by killing them wherever they come up, and that is not an easy chore because they refuse to become civilized.Helpful Reply
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Lil12064890 on Nov 09, 2016spiderwortHelpful Reply
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Jgu12858373 on Nov 09, 2016Species of pulmonariaHelpful Reply
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Goldrushgal on Nov 13, 2016Spiderwort. Hasn't been invasive in my CA. Garden, but does come back each SpringHelpful Reply
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