What is this?
Mar 28, 2023 14:07:23 #
I have this growing in my "yard." Not a big patch of them, but several. The flowers are on top of a tiny stalk that's about 6-12" tall. The flowers are miniscule. These pics aren't wonderful. They're straight out of the camera. I took some backed off against my gas tank so you can maybe get an idea of their smallness. I'd really like to know what they are and Google apparently doesn't know.
Mar 28, 2023 14:30:55 #
AzPicLady wrote:
I have this growing in my "yard." Not a big patch of them, but several. The flowers are on top of a tiny stalk that's about 6-12" tall. The flowers are miniscule. These pics aren't wonderful. They're straight out of the camera. I took some backed off against my gas tank so you can maybe get an idea of their smallness. I'd really like to know what they are and Google apparently doesn't know.
Very nice. I think you have Texas Toadflax there - Nuttallanthus texanus.
Mar 28, 2023 14:33:19 #
AzPicLady wrote:
I have this growing in my "yard." Not a big patch of them, but several. The flowers are on top of a tiny stalk that's about 6-12" tall. The flowers are miniscule. These pics aren't wonderful. They're straight out of the camera. I took some backed off against my gas tank so you can maybe get an idea of their smallness. I'd really like to know what they are and Google apparently doesn't know.
According to my “Picture This” app, that plant is a Texas Toadflax. It says it is an annual that produces light blue flowers in the spring.
Mar 28, 2023 14:34:03 #
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Mar 28, 2023 16:49:11 #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
Very nice. I think you have Texas Toadflax there - Nuttallanthus texanus.
Ah ha! Thank you!
Mar 28, 2023 16:49:51 #
cwp3420 wrote:
According to my “Picture This” app, that plant is a Texas Toadflax. It says it is an annual that produces light blue flowers in the spring.
Thank you! Interesting that it's a Texas plant but growing in AZ. I haven't been to Texas in a long time.
Mar 28, 2023 16:50:05 #
Mar 28, 2023 16:50:54 #
PoppieJ wrote:
Possibly lobelia
I looked up lobelia. From the pictures they showed, it's not that. Thanks.
Mar 28, 2023 18:02:03 #
AzPicLady wrote:
Ah ha! Thank you!
It is native to Arizona, despite the name. We have a related plant here, Canada Toadflax - Nuttallanthus canadensis. It can be found as far south as Florida. The names often reflect where the plant was first identified and catalogued.
Mar 28, 2023 18:20:49 #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
It is native to Arizona, despite the name. We have a related plant here, Canada Toadflax - Nuttallanthus canadensis. It can be found as far south as Florida. The names often reflect where the plant was first identified and catalogued.
Thanks for the info!
Mar 28, 2023 23:04:57 #
I have those growing in my yard and I live in Louisiana, Kathy. I guess they get around.
Mar 29, 2023 06:22:52 #
I come across patches of them out here, people just call them "Blue Dicks". Generally large but sparse patches.
Jack Olson
Jack Olson
Mar 29, 2023 10:19:57 #
kpmac wrote:
I have those growing in my yard and I live in Louisiana, Kathy. I guess they get around.
WOW. I guess they do get around.
Mar 29, 2023 10:20:55 #
Wilderness Images wrote:
I come across patches of them out here, people just call them "Blue Dicks". Generally large but sparse patches.
Jack Olson
Jack Olson
I started this year with one that was right in front of where I park my car. Then there were two. Now there are probably 50 or so - the patch is growing! But, they are really scattered.
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