By Piers66
Surrey, United Kingdom
Small plant identification please!
Some more plants from my girlfriend's garden. The first one is spreading so I uprooted a few a couple of weeks back, and potted them up (hence the insert). Apologies for the poor focussing of the flower in number three.
Thanks,
Piers.
- 1 Jun, 2016
Answers
The grey feathery leaved one probably is Artemesia, as Sheila says, but that won't be what the white flower is growing from, need to see the foliage that belongs to it. The one in the second photo I can't remember the name of it, though it might be one of the sedums, and the top one, no idea, except it looks a bit like one of the erysimums. Hopefully someone else will recognise them...
1 Jun, 2016
The first one looks like a wallflower, but not sure about them spreading like that.The second one has primroses growing among it.
The little blue flower in the third one looks like a campanula. Bruise the leaves of no three to confirm Sheila's suggestion - should be quite aromatic.
1 Jun, 2016
Hello,
Ignore the primroses, they've been breeding like rabbits and have got everywhere (but she likes them!).
After a quick search in Google images, the first one does look a lot like Erysimum Cheiranthoides. Wallflower makes sense, if only because they're finding the cracks in the crazy paving!
The second one looks similar to Sedum Reflexum, but I guess I'll have to wait until it flowers and post an update to determine the variety.
The white flower in the third picture is, I assure you, from the main plant. They grow on long stalks, there's one just about to open up in the top left hand corner of the picture. There are some Artemisia with similar foliage (e.g. Schmidtiana Nana), but not with those flowers.
Piers.
1 Jun, 2016
Okay then, the daisy flower in the last picture must be either anemone sylvestris, or, less likely, Argyranthemum (the latter isn't hardy in UK).
1 Jun, 2016
Bamboo,
I've checked various images of the Anemone Sylvestris and Argyranthemum and the foliage doesn't really look right. I'll see if I can get a better picture of the flower and update.
Piers.
1 Jun, 2016
Hello,
I've updated the third picture with a clearer image of the flower.
Piers.
2 Jun, 2016
The flower looks like Anthemis carpatica - but the foliage on that, whilst grey and finely cut, is usually not quite so feathery as the one you have. Maybe its a particular variety, not sure.
2 Jun, 2016
Bamboo,
I think we're getting there!
I followed a few links back and forth. What about Anthemis cretica subsp. saxatilis? Some of the google images look pretty similar (though I do wonder what proportion are mislabelled...).
Piers.
2 Jun, 2016
Anthemis saxatilis, Anthemis cretica subsp saxatilis, call it what you like, there's a lot of confusion about varietal names for this plant, but none of those has foliage quite as ferny as the one you have.
Have a look at Chamaemelum nobilis (Roman chamomile), it has very similar foliage, but doesn't produce many flowers, or Matricaria recutita (German camomile) which produces more flowers. Link below, pic of foliage near the end
https://www.mountainvalleygrowers.com/chanobilus.htm
2 Jun, 2016
Hello,
Thanks for the link. It's tricky isn't it! Before reading that we were wondering if some variety of anthemis cupaniana might fit.
If it's a chamomile should the familiar herbal tea like smell be fairly obvious? That might be a good indicator.
Piers.
2 Jun, 2016
If you read the link, it describes both plants as being 'odiferous' or fragrant, depending on your point of view (I hate chamomile tea, can't stand the smell), though the scent is different between the plants, and they're referring to the foliage, although its the flowers which are usually harvested for tea. If it is chamomile, its best to decide which one it is according to its height and spread and whether its very floriferous, or just produces the odd few flowers.
And by the way, check out Sedum reflexum (syn rupestre), I think that's what the middle one is. There are so many varieties of sedum though...
2 Jun, 2016
I'd already spotted the sedum reflexum rupestre. It looks like they're on the point of flowering, however, so I was going to hang on and just see what appears...
2 Jun, 2016
Hello,
OK, apparently the middle picture is some kind of Crassula, but more than that I don't know, as there seem to be thousands of different types.
The third is a Rhodanthemum, again I don't know what sort, but hosmariense looks close.
Piers.
3 Jun, 2016
Sedum is one of the Crassulas....
3 Jun, 2016
Ahhhhh.... :-)
3 Jun, 2016
could the bottom one be Anacyclus depressus or similar.
4 Jun, 2016
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