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Tue, May 1, 12 at 21:46
| A friend asked me what this was and I could not figure it for the life of me. Sage, lupine... so close yet so far!
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| Looks like an Echium. Maybe E fastuosum. Not a shrub but a biennial which sometimes persists for several seasons and will self sow when it is happy. |
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- Posted by formandfoliage 9b (Sunset zone 15) (My Page) on Wed, May 2, 12 at 18:28
| It is definitely an Echium and candicans (syn: fastuosum) is a good guess. tomat0 in your zone 10a they likely are perennial although they are very frost sensitive so if you do get a freeze they will go. Here they self-sow readily and although I lost mine (and I was not sorry to see them go for an assortment of reasons, most related to their non-durability) in a hard freeze some years ago, the seedlings persist to this day. They are striking plants. |
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| Little is known about the biology or invasiveness of pride-of- Madeira, but it appears to spread slowly into established native plant communities |
Here is a link that might be useful: Cal-IPC: Echium candicans
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