Please Help Me Identify These Plants If You Can
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Pamela F
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I threw down some wild perennial seeds a couple of months ago. Thought they were a bust until I saw these. Honestly, I don't know if they are from the seeds or not but here they are.
Is this a butterfly weed or Joe Pye weed?
13 answers
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Pamela, the first two are definitely celosia. I'm afraid the others are not far enough along for me to tell.
Douglas Hunt
on Aug 11, 2013
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The third one looks a lot like my Mexican petunia (grows tall, 3'-4', with nice blue-purple blooms) and the sixth one might be lantana (orange-yellow-red blooms).
Melissa
on Aug 11, 2013
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I have lantanas and it doesn't really looks like it. Its seems to have tiny buds on them. I was told it bloons orange flowers
Pamela F
on Aug 11, 2013
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Can I transplant the celosia to a different area or do I need to wait til fall?
Pamela F
on Aug 11, 2013
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It doesn't look like Lantana to me either! The one in three looks like wild fire weed!
Mikell Paulson
on Aug 12, 2013
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Yes, I was thinking the same about the third one being a weed.
Lumen Castaneda
on Aug 12, 2013
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The third one is in fact petunia. It bloomed for me yesterday morning:-)
Pamela F
on Aug 14, 2013
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In #7 the green plant looks like a weed that I get in my garden. It spreads it's "legs" quickly and becomes a pain to get up. I'd like to know what the purple plant in the background is?
Jean DeSavage
on Aug 15, 2013
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I call the purple perennial plant in #7 "Wandering Jew" it has tiny pink flowers. Here in Tucson AZ it dies back to the ground after a winter freeze, will grow in full summer sun and also tolerates shade. It will easily adapt to its environment and stem cuttings root easily in moist soil, once established it can even tolerate drought. GBYAY Anne Breen
Anne Breen
on Sep 11, 2013
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Sso sorry I have the first two picture in my garden only and I know they are celosia. The rest of the plant i cannot identify.
Lumen Castaneda
on Sep 11, 2013
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The third one appears to be a butterfly weed, Asclepias. Probably pink in color as that varieties leaves are narrower. A very drought tolerant, later summer blooming, perennial. The fourth and fifth I would guess as a Balsam.
S
on Jan 22, 2014
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purple plant in #7 is actually Setcresea pallida or purpurea (I have also seen it labelled as Tradescantia pal.)I was told by a local botanist that it was setcresea so that is what I am sticking with :-) - Mexican Hearts and Flowers or Purple Heart. I beat mine back to ground level every 2-3 years so it comes back nice and thick.
Susie
on Jan 22, 2014
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Well, the ones with the yellow petals and big brown centers are Black-eyed Susans. The other flowers I am not sure about.
Laurie K
on May 15, 2014
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