Can anyone help me to identify this plant??
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/ecbsf/P1010004.jpg
It is the one with purple, spiked flowers... The original claim is that it was Acanthus Mollis, but I know that is incorrect. Could it be a variety of Liatris?
2007-03-23 06:35:57 · 9 answers · asked by ratmeow 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Definitely not Acanthus Mollis, not Liatris either. I think it is a species of Echium, there are tall ones and short ones.
2007-03-23 09:41:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, they are NOT liatris, at first glanceI thought yeah maybe lupine. But nope,the picture is sort of bad for detail. I took a good look at the flower and they are not shaped quite right and too dense on the stalk and the leaves are not right for lupine. The tree in the background is a tip-off to a much warmer clime, leaving me to say you should compare to ECHIUM.
There are a couple different species, but there is one that grows about 2' tall, blue, zone 8-9, it might be echium fastolius...but my latin might be off on that. Check out echiums in general, although Blue Bedder is a bad example.
2007-03-23 15:44:50 · answer #2 · answered by olivia54984 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I swear that this picture is almost too blurry to make anything out of it. But i highly doubt that those are Liatris at all. Note that Liatris flowers are either straight collumn or bigger at the top since they bloom from the top of the spike downward and those in the picture are short and spike-top
Based on the fingers-like leaves and the young green-spikes
i'm at least 80% sure that those are a Bluebonnet (Lupinus argenteus)
2007-03-23 07:18:50 · answer #3 · answered by ED 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They are indeed purple liatris. Liatris also comes in white. They are a bulb and are easily planted and do spread a little each year. They grow in full sun to part sun with little water. Water well the first year to set in the roots well. Enjoy.
2007-03-23 07:14:25 · answer #4 · answered by peach 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would say from looking at the picture that you could very well be right with the Liatris.... I would say a "purple Liatris" to be exact..
2007-03-23 06:54:52 · answer #5 · answered by Termite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it may be purple salvia. I am almost positive. Liatris is not bigger at the bottom of the blosom and skinny at the top, it is pretty much the same all the way up.
2007-03-23 09:17:07 · answer #6 · answered by Carrot girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1000% sure those are a species of Lupine. It could be the ones commonly reffered to as blue bonnet like ed suggested but it could also be one of 50 shorter hybrids and cultivars. The picture isn't clear enough to tell which one.
2007-03-23 10:35:06 · answer #7 · answered by rickluml 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm with Ed. They look more like a Lupine than a Liatris.
Male Peasant: She's bloody dying and all you bring us is lupins. All we've eaten mate for the last four bleeding weeks is lupin soup, roast lupin, steamed lupin, braised lupin in lupin sauce, lupin in the basket with saut~ed lupins, lupin meringue pie, lupin. sorbet... we sit on lupins, we sleep in lupins, we feed the cat on lupins, we burn lupins, we even wear the bloody things!
Moore: Looks very smart.
Male Peasant: Oh shut up! We're sick to death with the stench of them. (sound of a miaow and then a bump) Look. The cat's just choked itself to death on them. (we see a dead cat with lupins coming out of its mouth) I don't care if I never see another lupin till the day I die! Why don't you go out and steal something useful!
Moore: Like what?
2007-03-23 08:10:55 · answer #8 · answered by thegubmint 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I want to say that they are Spring Hyacinths
2007-03-23 06:46:58 · answer #9 · answered by surfer grl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋