I found this flower growing along the highway while out on my walk. Maybe someone knows something about it. Thanks :idea: ed :-D mystery flower ( photo / image / picture from Edlou8181's Garden ) 2nd view of blue wild flower ( photo / image / picture from Edlou8181's Garden )
That's a beautiful blue and an interesting shape too... Is it an invasive type of plant? I'm running out of room for things that are too unruly.
Daisy... I don't know if I'd call it invasive or not. Here it grows wild in the fields, side of the road ,etc I really only notice them in the springtime... but summertime.. no sign of them. But that could be from the heat and mowing. Last spring I dugged up a clump and planted in an old wheelbarrow with some other stuff. Here it is then. It's the one in back-left-hand side. wheelbarrow top ( photo / image / picture from cherylad's Garden ) And here it is today. spiderwort51411 ( photo / image / picture from cherylad's Garden ) So... I guess it is possible for it to grow pretty good size and reseed itself. My suggestion... if you really like it... put it in a container.
I have an area about 10 by 2 feet with spiderwort. Whenever some strayed from the patch it was easy to move back. Jerry
Spiderwort plant I thank everyone in reference to the spiderwort plant. Although I planted the flower it died,and with this Summer that was worse than last Summer I haven't been out as much. My tomatoes (Mart) are still producing which makes me VERY happy. And the Petunias are still giving forth with beautiful scents. Starting Monday its supposed to cause rain for the upcoming rain. Now a picture from around my house years before I moved there. sleep cool ed Kings Hwy 1800's ( photo / image / picture from Edlou8181's Garden ) I worked for these people for 33 years ( photo / image / picture from Edlou8181's Garden )
From what I know tradescantia flumensis is the only one that's really invasive. That one is very pretty.
Yes you are right Mrs.H they are very invasive. So I would be thankful that it died. It took me to summers to dig up and get rid of a patch I had planted.
Tradescantia has such a pretty blue color! It grows along the road side here in New England, but i have never known it to become invasive. Good luck!
The ones that are so similar to Edlou's pic are the ones that confuse me: T. ohiensis, virgianiana, bracteata, andersoniana, subaspera, ernestina, humilis, paludosa, occidentalis, ozarkana, and so many other natives... Location can often rule some out, but that still usually leaves several possibilities. Tooty, I don't think your plant was T. fluminensis in WI. My back yard has large patches of one of these, which I mow around in the spring until they stop blooming. Then I just mow them with the rest of the grass. I wouldn't put any of them in a flower bed because it has such a short, early bloom season, then can die out and look really ugly/ratty when it gets hot and dry, but that's a personal preference. I avoid most perennials with plain green foliage.
