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Stumped by another small flower!

soulboysoulboy Posts: 429

I'll make this one the last for now as I've got another two threads waiting for a response.

This small blue flower also came from a box of 'wildflower' seeds and has tiny flowers in clusters. The leaves are Pinnate and lobed: small, narrow and long, much like dill. The flowers are the size of lobelia, or just a bit bigger.

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc413/funkydance/My%20Garden%202014/2014-07-22104415.jpg

 

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc413/funkydance/My%20Garden%202014/2014-07-22104406.jpg

 

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc413/funkydance/My%20Garden%202014/unknownblowup.jpg

 

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  • Outdoor girlOutdoor girl Posts: 286

    The leaves look like cosmos but the flower looks a little like phacelia. I think! Someone with better knowledge will be along in a minute

  • Beaus MumBeaus Mum Posts: 3,554

    Hi just tried looking for you as really liked the look of it image Going on wish list, was it easy to grow? Did you do in seed tray or straight onthe ground?

    Think it maybe blue thimble flower 

  • ToadyToady Posts: 56

    From the leaf in the lower of pic 2 I would guess at creeping speedwell, don't think the cosmos looking foliage has anything to do with the close. Pretty flower but a weed in anything but a wild garden/area. Could be wrong though????!

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    A pic of the plant without the cosmos and other interlopers would help.

    Showing the leaves which belong to the plant in question and how the flowers are arranged on the stem. The flowers themselves have the right number of petals for a speedwell (I originally counted 6 but I can't countimage) but the arrangement doesn't look right



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ToadyToady Posts: 56

    I kind of agree with you on the arrangement of the flowers nut, too many in a cluster really! But I am going from memory and the sun's been frying my brain lately????!

  • soulboysoulboy Posts: 429

    Sorry I didn't have a photo' showing the leaves better yesterday, that's why I described them in the post but will have misled people by describing them as dill-like, when, in fact, they are more like the leaves of anemone.

    Here are a some photo's of the same plant elsewhere in the border where it isn't partly obscured by other plants.

    http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc413/funkydance/My%20Garden%202014/2014-07-25080529.jpg

     

    http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc413/funkydance/My%20Garden%202014/2014-07-27131553.jpg

     

    http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc413/funkydance/My%20Garden%202014/2014-07-27131603.jpg

     

    http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc413/funkydance/My%20Garden%202014/2014-07-27131621.jpg

     

  • ToadyToady Posts: 56

    Gilia capitata, an annual wildflower.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Does it grow wild in the UK Toady?  It's not one I know. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ToadyToady Posts: 56

    http://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/details?plantid=877

    As much as I know about it other than it grows wild in California.

  • Small Scabious or Field Scabious   probably more likely. The flower head looks similar to hepatica but leaves different. Will stick with Scabious!

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