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Brain Fart - name that plant
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bakemom z6 Central Ohio (
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Sun, Feb 6, 11 at 11:37
| big yellow perennial spikes and looks like a mutant bachelor button or something. Butterflies love it. I can't think of the name for all the tea in China. Help! |
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- Posted by bakemom z6 Central Ohio (My Page) on
Sun, Feb 6, 11 at 12:11
| Nope. Nice try though. I wonder if my helen's are coming back this year. The plant I'm talking about is about 3 foot tall and thick stemmed - crazy yellow bloom. |
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- Posted by morz8 Z8 Wa coast (My Page) on
Sun, Feb 6, 11 at 12:12
| That's a tough one, I can think of lots where you might have said looks like a daisy, or dahlia. What I usually do is just quit thinking about it, and then it will come to me. Maybe not that day, but it does come :) centaurea macrocephala, trollius, ranunculus, cephalaria, inula. ??? |
RE: Brain Fart - name that plant
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| Thick stem & crazy yellow bloom makes me think canna lily but they're not butterfly magnets that I'm aware of. Oh wait, what are those really tall--5-6 ft.--plants with fuzzy leaves? Verbascum? |
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- Posted by bakemom z6 Central Ohio (My Page) on
Sun, Feb 6, 11 at 12:51
| It's kind of like liatris in stature, but I think it's realated to cornflowers. My former secretary grew it and I managed to get one plant from seed. I don't know if it's coming back, so I want a backup. It's drought tolerant. I think I got the seeds from the exchange. |
RE: Brain Fart - name that plant
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| centaurea macrocephala was my guess.... hmmm |
RE: Brain Fart - name that plant
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| I was thinking centaurea macrocephala (aka giant knaphead) also. Google has some good images of it. Maybe the images would help. |
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- Posted by bakemom z6 Central Ohio (My Page) on
Sun, Feb 6, 11 at 14:10
| THAT'S IT! YAY! Thanks everyone. |
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