Anyone know this plant? I've got 2 in my garden so I must have planted them, but I have no idea what they are.

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zone 7a perennial

Nicole Y · Answer

the leaves and flower resemble a butterfly bush...there are so many different types...not sure though

John S · Answer

It looks like Blue Beard but it is more of a bush than a plant and blooms late summer.

Douglas Hunt · Answer

I agree with John that it looks like you have a type of Caryopteris, or bluebeard.

Sandra R · Answer

I have this but mine doesn't bloom till fall. It's a Longwood Blue Caryopteries,Caryopteris,   x clandortenis 'Longwood Blue'. It is a perennial, full sun, 3 ft. high, 3 ft. wide.

Melinda E · Answer

I have this plant but do not know the name.  Have divided it several times and replanted in various spots.  Grows well in sun or shade, we have heavy clay soit and it does well.  Not evasive, slow spreading.  Mine starts blooming in late Spring and continues through Summer.

Erica Glasener · Answer

Vanessa you have your answer, it is a Caryopteris (bluebeard) but there are a number of diffferent selections.  Enjoy.  One of the things I like about this plant is the foliage is fragrant when you run your hand over it.  I recommend full sun.

Vanessa D · Answer

Oops, I thought I'd posted thanks on this already. Sorry about that and thank you for your answers, everyone! :)

Cami · Answer

it looks like spiderwort

Nancy F · Answer

I believe it is caryopteris 'Blue Mist'

Diana Kiley · Answer

It is Blue Mist caryopteris. I did not plant one (God did via a bird perhaps) but one appeared in my xeric garden and the bees love it

Dorothy · Answer

Yep, Blue Mist caryopteris. There is a variety with variegated leaves and I think there's one with darker blue flowers. The bees love it. I pruned mine rather heavily in the spring and then again in early to mid summer and it stayed very bushy and compact and was nearly covered with flowers....and bees. The hummingbirds showed up a lot too.

Robin Sweetman · Answer

Bee Balm is what we call it in Ohio.

Mary Smith · Answer

We call it widows tears here in Missouri!  Will divide very easily and blooms a long time than I clip the seeds off and leave them on the ground with them for next year  Hope this helps

Robin Dowden · Answer

I don't know the name but I get hem every year. at first I thought it was a weed so I pulled out a lot. the next year they came back a hundred fold, I left them alone and beautiful violet flowers appeared. no more pulling but I also would like to know the name.

Linda Wingert-Turiak · Answer

Heard of it as both Blue Beard and Bee Balm. While it has really pretty fragrant purple flowers and the butterflies and bees love it (all good things), the seeds fall off and get into everything. It creates a lot of weeding.

Karen V · Answer

Oh I learned something new, I've been pulling mine out, thinking it was just a weed trying to take over my flower bed.

Rudy Chan · Answer

looks like butterfly bush to me...

Victoria · Answer

i have it to! it is called blue beard although it is purple...

Nanny · Answer

It is definitely not Blue beard. Looks like an invasive perenial to me. Never seen it in the northwest.

PattyQ · Answer

Butterflyweed is orange in Tennessee

Dorothy · Answer

Butterfly bush or butterfly weed? Butterfly weed (asclepias) is orange, is a domesticated (and some wild) form of the perennial milkweed that is important food for Monarch butterflies, stands about 14 to maybe 18 inches tall and has bright green leaves. Butterfly bush (buddleia) is a shrub and comes in blue, wine, white and pink colors and there's a variety that has flowers that age to an orangey color all with a dusty grayish green leaf with the flowers in spikes at the end of the twig/branch. The plant in the photo is a shrub known as caryopteris (also called blue beard and occasionally as blue spirea) with a number of named varieties, almost all of them blooming in tones of blue at the base of leaf whorls.

Deborah Donovan-Navarro · Answer

It is definitely Caryopteris (commonly called Blue Spirea).

Alyce Wilson · Answer

Alyce-Clear Lake, Iowa its a butterfly bush. I have one that is white and a purple one. They are beautiful, except there is less butterflies that are around this year..

Kathleen M · Answer

I have one in bloom in my front yard it is a shrubby plant, it is called a Blue Mist Spirea and yes bees absolutely adore it. Here at the New Jersey Shore our winters can be cold and windy which they do not like but I have managed to keep this one with a real good pruning in early spring like a butterfly bush. http://www.mlive.com/grand-haven/index.ssf/2010/12/garden_gals_pam_cater_audrey_e.html

Kathleen M · Answer

@Vanessa D  here is a photo of mine ~>  :) bees feasting ...Monarchs like it too but I have not seen one yet this season
 :(

Diana R · Answer

Diana R  Monroe, NC
This is called a Blue Mist Shrub (caryopteris).  I had them and they are a very easy shrub to grow.  LOVE them !!

Emma Santoro-Adkison · Answer

Not a butterfly bush. They are tall Definitely not ground cove.

Duv310660 · Answer

I would always side with a proper botanical name, as common names vary quite a lot from region to region.

Cherie Kessel Fisher · Answer

Caryopteris, also known as bluebeard, the variety name is probably Blue Mist.

Vickie · Answer

It's a blue mist. I got some from a plant magazine. They didn't do very well because I had them in a slightly shady area. I moved them but they didn't make it. My fault :(

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