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Posted by virraszto (My Page) on Tue, Jun 30, 09 at 3:35
| A couple of years ago, I bought two bee balm plants. I planted them in my front flower garden. I even put the ID makers in the ground in front of them, like I do all my flowers. This has come up for the past two years. The other one I pulled out. I kept this one growing hoping it would flower and I'd be able to ID it. It hasn't flowered yet, and my sister says it isn't bee balm. I planted *something* in this spot, but what is it?
Sorry the photo is dark. I took it at night. I kept forgetting to take a photo of it during the day.
The yellow you see in the background is not part of this plant.
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| I just remembered....my husband weed wacked this down the first year, right down to almost nothing. This has come up the past two years. |
RE: Who can name this plant, pls.?
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Might be a weedy wild Aster.
It future it may help with ID's to know your state or USDA zone. |
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| Oops. Sorry, I thought it automatically showed my zone. I'm in Michigan. Zone 5. I took a daytime photo this morning and I'll upload it in a few minutes. V. |
RE: Who can name this plant, pls.?
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I second wild Aster - Aster aricoides
Got a few in my garden too. I just pull out extras, keeping a few. Love the flowers. It blooms late when most others are gone. 
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| Will it ever bloom? It's been 2 years and not one single bloom on it. I don't even see any buds or anything to make a flower. I'll take a close up of the leaves. |
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| I took some more photos. I am now convinced this was not what I planted. I thought I'd seen these in other parts of my yard, and sure enough, I found one on the side of the fence. This is a close up of the first one. 
Here is an Aster that I planted. I still have the label in the ground behind it. You can see it peeking through. It's not near the one in question. 
And here is another one I found along the fence line. This is a weed. It wasn't here last year. The one in question has been there at least 2 yrs and has never bloomed. 
So, it will get yanked tonight and something else put in it's place. Honestly, I'm glad to yank it. I have been waiting 2 yrs for any kind of bloom, but nothing. I would have kept it if it had flowered. |
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| Yank it out. :-) I would. If it were a wild aster, the leaves would be different from your aster. Your aster looks like an Aster novi-belgii, not a New England aster - a close relative to Aster ericoides - the wild and weedy aster in my picture.. |
RE: Who can name this plant, pls.?
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| I original thought aster. I am pretty sure I saw some of that yesterday. I do not know the name though. It is blooming in VA right now with a purple flower. If you are north of me, still have it and it is not blooming yet then I would give it another month. |
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