Hopefully someone can give me a name for this plant as it is a mystery from my childhood and I would like a name for it?Here is what I know -
Grew about a foot high and had yellow petals.
In late summer,when the petals fell away it left a green oval shaped pod about 2cm long on the end of the stalk.
This pod then turned brown and hollow in autumn and had seeds inside it.If it was windy the pods would rattle in the wind.
2007-04-02 00:11:35 · 10 answers · asked by Mark D 5 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Sounds like Welsh Poppy to me. Here's a photo looking into the centre of the flower when the petals are open: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/fun/ecards/pages/poppy.shtml
2007-04-02 00:39:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like Daylilies to me. Although they do come in many colors, yellow is the most commonly planted. The bloom lasts only a day then the petals fall off. If you don't pick the pods off they eventually dry out in the fall turning brown, just as you said. That is why they are called daylilies, each flower that blooms lasts only a day.
2007-04-02 13:00:09 · answer #2 · answered by Buddy 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Describe the petals, roughly how many were there and what shape were they? eg rounded like a rose, pointed like a daisy. And how big were the flowers? Were they scented? Can you remember what shape the leaves were? What shape were the flower pods, long and thin or short and fat?
The more detail you give the better!
2007-04-02 07:17:19 · answer #3 · answered by sarah c 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It sounds like a Californian poppy or a horned poppy but it could be quite a number of things. Definitely NOT a dandelion! (too tall and dandelion seedheads have little puffs of seeds on parachutes that get blown by the wind)
2007-04-02 07:15:30 · answer #4 · answered by Owlwings 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Rattling seed pods....
Yellow rattle (!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_rattle
Birdsfoot trefoil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdsfoot_trefoil
Californian poppy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californian_Poppy
Meadow vetchling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadow_Vetchling
Toadflax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon
2007-04-02 07:23:25 · answer #5 · answered by bumblecherry 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
sounds like a poppy in every sense, apart from colour.
2007-04-02 07:14:26 · answer #6 · answered by dsclimb1 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Can't think of the name either. Is it any of these?
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=images&imgsz=all&imgc=&vf=all&va=yellow+wildflower&fr=ush-ans&ei=UTF-8
2007-04-02 07:19:08 · answer #7 · answered by reynwater 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
dandelion, look at this link for a picture:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GFRG&sa=N&resnum=0&q=dandelion&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&tab=wi
2007-04-02 07:15:19 · answer #8 · answered by mimi 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i could be look it up.....saxifraga elizabetha "primrose dame"
2007-04-02 10:32:40 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
primula?
2007-04-02 07:17:04 · answer #10 · answered by q6656303 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋