Weed Bloom ID needed: Hopefully someone will be able to ID this little weed bloom. They start out white & change to a purple... Thin stalks emerge into a field of these with no leaves...

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Hopefully someone will be able to ID this little weed bloom. They start out white & change to a purple... Thin stalks emerge into a field of these with no leaves except at the base...(Sorry no image of the leaves, but can take if needed)

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creativ simon Loc: Coulsdon, South London

Screamin Scott wrote:

Hopefully someone will be able to ID this little weed bloom. They start out white & change to a purple... Thin stalks emerge into a field of these with no leaves except at the base...(Sorry no image of the leaves, but can take if needed)

Nice shot but sorry no idea

CJartist Loc: Ormond Beach

Screamin Scott wrote:

Hopefully someone will be able to ID this little weed bloom. They start out white & change to a purple... Thin stalks emerge into a field of these with no leaves except at the base...(Sorry no image of the leaves, but can take if needed)

I think I have them in my yard but don't know the name, maybe of up took a shot withe the leaves would help in ID

Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC

CJartist wrote:

I think I have them in my yard but don't know the name, maybe of up took a shot withe the leaves would help in ID

"Johnny Jump Up" - normally violet, white and yellow, they have many variants ..... or may simply be a viola.

DOOK Loc: Maclean, Australia

Can't ID, Scott, but it's a great photo. :thumbup: :thumbup:

wlgoode Loc: Globe, AZ

Screamin Scott wrote:

Hopefully someone will be able to ID this little weed bloom. They start out white & change to a purple... Thin stalks emerge into a field of these with no leaves except at the base...(Sorry no image of the leaves, but can take if needed)

Just FYI, in the future, for accuracy, contact the Botany Dept. of your state university, they are usually glad to help, some states mandate the state universities to help state residents.

pinkycat Loc: The Garden State

Looks like what we call "ink weeds". If you press the flower together, do they leave an "ink-like" substance on the fingers?

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Screamin Scott wrote:

Hopefully someone will be able to ID this little weed bloom. They start out white & change to a purple... Thin stalks emerge into a field of these with no leaves except at the base...(Sorry no image of the leaves, but can take if needed)

It is always much easier to work with the foliage for ID purposes. Basal leaves is a good clue, but are they toothed, lobed, alternate or opposite..? etc. My first guess was a Larkspur of some kind. It cannot be a "Johnny-Jump-Up" (Viola cornuta) because it has multiple blooms on the same stalk. It is not "Inkweed" (Phytolacca octandra.) Interesting thin recurved spur on the flower.

Mike

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

There isn't much to the leaves. I went back & looked & they are small, thin leaves alternatively on the stem. They really are insignificant as it were. There are a number of the stalks coming up. with the flowers at the very top. I can shoot off some more images of the leaves if you wish.

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Pretty sure I have got it.

Nuttallanthus canadensis formerly Linaria canadensis (variety texana) - "Texas Toadflax," Figwort family.

Two-lipped violet to pale blue flowers; 32 inch tall, slender stalks; slender recurved spur extending to the rear of the calyx; small, basal leaf rosette.

Not a plant we see here in the North, though we do see the Canada Toadflax which is similar but not as showy. Very nice. Thanks.

Mike

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Yep, just looked up some other images on "Dave's Garden" & it looks identical to "Blue Toadflax"... Thanks !!! That recurved spur was what kindled my interest in it...

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

I am reading that it is a host plant for the Common Buckeye.

Mike

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Which we have around here.... I've got some images of them... That said, most times I see them on the ground as opposed to a plant.

Blenheim Orange wrote:

I am reading that it is a host plant for the Common Buckeye.

Mike

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Screamin Scott wrote:

Which we have around here.... I've got some images of them... That said, most times I see them on the ground as opposed to a plant.

Yep. I think that is called "puddling." They take in salts and minerals from the soil dissolved in small puddles or wet areas on the ground. The larva would be feeding on the plant, but the adults are not fussy about the type of plant (except when laying eggs, and then they are extremely fussy) as they can get nectar from just about any flower.

Mike