Hi, I'm back for another ID of a small flower in my new back garden border. This one shouldn't be difficult as it has a very distinctive petal arrangement. It's about 25cm tall, branching and with ovoid leaves.
I don't recognise it either but leaves, growth habit and anthers are very fuchsia-like. Maybe some form with 4 large sepals and tiny (invisible) petals?
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Thanks everyone, you've helped me get a defintive ID, its Clarkia unguiculata, elegant clarkia, or mountain garland, a woodland plant endemic to California. There's quite a few now growing in my new border. I've had and have still got other Clarkia species, but this is a lovely first.
BTW, Bobthegardener, the petals are the pink spade-like parts, the sepals are fused in a cup shape beneath the corolla. There are a few of the species that have this arrangement, although rarer than this one and with some gorgeous colouration in the petals. See the wikipedia page on Clarkias.
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I don't know but it looks very pretty.
I don't recognise it either but leaves, growth habit and anthers are very fuchsia-like. Maybe some form with 4 large sepals and tiny (invisible) petals?
Could it be clarkia?
Yes, Clarkia, now Godetia
Or is the other way round
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks everyone, you've helped me get a defintive ID, its Clarkia unguiculata, elegant clarkia, or mountain garland, a woodland plant endemic to California. There's quite a few now growing in my new border. I've had and have still got other Clarkia species, but this is a lovely first.
BTW, Bobthegardener, the petals are the pink spade-like parts, the sepals are fused in a cup shape beneath the corolla. There are a few of the species that have this arrangement, although rarer than this one and with some gorgeous colouration in the petals. See the wikipedia page on Clarkias.