Need some flower ID
Nov 28, 2018 19:15:42 #
I took these pictures at the Phoenix Zoo. The lavender ones were on a bush. The yellow ones were on a tree - or a HUGE bush, perhaps. (It was quite tall.)
Nov 28, 2018 19:52:43 #
AzPicLady wrote:
I took these pictures at the Phoenix Zoo. The lavender ones were on a bush. The yellow ones were on a tree - or a HUGE bush, perhaps. (It was quite tall.)
The first one looks like morning glories, but I'm not sure about the yellow ones. They're both very pretty though
Nov 28, 2018 20:11:06 #
lovemypups wrote:
The first one looks like morning glories, but I'm not sure about the yellow ones. They're both very pretty though
Thanks, Pups. Unfortunately, I think morning glories are on a vine. These were on a bush. Unless there's a morning glory that is a bush. . . . Far be it from me to know!
Nov 28, 2018 20:22:15 #
AzPicLady wrote:
Thanks, Pups. Unfortunately, I think morning glories are on a vine. These were on a bush. Unless there's a morning glory that is a bush. . . . Far be it from me to know!
Oops, just re-read what you wrote and your right, they do grow on vines, but I went researching on line and they also do have a bush morning glory, so it could possibly be. I never knew that
Nov 28, 2018 21:45:21 #
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Nov 28, 2018 22:52:48 #
Nice. The first one looks like a Convolvulus species (Morning glory family) with the fused petals and arrowhead-shaped leaves. There are 11 species in North America, 2 in Arizona. Maybe Convolvulus arvensis - Field Bindweed. If so that is an exotic from Asia that is an agricultural pest in North America. Convolvulus equitans - Texas bindweed - is a native species occurs in Arizona as well, but your plant looks more like C. arvensis to me.
The second one looks like Senna, from the Fabaceae or Leguminosae family, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family. There are 16 species in North America, three that occur in Arizona. My guess is Senna didymobotrya - African senna, also exotic to North America. Senna Covesii - Desert senna - is the other possibility.
Of course, if they were in a garden they could be species that don't occur there in the wild. The first could be some sort of Morning glory cultivar, and the second could be Wild Senna, a plant that occurs in eastern US.
Mike
The second one looks like Senna, from the Fabaceae or Leguminosae family, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family. There are 16 species in North America, three that occur in Arizona. My guess is Senna didymobotrya - African senna, also exotic to North America. Senna Covesii - Desert senna - is the other possibility.
Of course, if they were in a garden they could be species that don't occur there in the wild. The first could be some sort of Morning glory cultivar, and the second could be Wild Senna, a plant that occurs in eastern US.
Mike
Nov 28, 2018 23:09:54 #
lovemypups wrote:
Oops, just re-read what you wrote and your right, they do grow on vines, but I went researching on line and they also do have a bush morning glory, so it could possibly be. I never knew that
Well, there you go. Another plant fact to add to the 10 others I already had! Thanks for the info.
Nov 28, 2018 23:10:17 #
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Nov 28, 2018 23:13:23 #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
Nice. The first one looks like a i Convolvulus /i... (show quote)
Thanks, Mike. I'll look up those species. You obviously know your plants. Is senna a tree?
Nov 28, 2018 23:19:03 #
AzPicLady wrote:
Thanks, Mike. I'll look up those species. You obviously know your plants. Is senna a tree?
Wild senna here is a big shrubby thing. I saw a few this year 8-10 foot tall. Most of the bean family plants are considered to be shrubs.
The Morning glory plants can vary a lot in the color of the blossoms. Leaves are the best identification factor.
Field bindweed leaves:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=field+bindweed+leaves&t=ffab&atb=v143-1__&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
Bindweed can be draped all over a bush or a tree, hiding everything underneath.
Mike
Nov 28, 2018 23:27:36 #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
Wild senna here is a big shrubby thing. I saw a fe... (show quote)
Thanks for the link. I guess I'd question if they would allow an invasive plant at the zoo. It's quite a gardener's paradise. And it wasn't ON something. It was the plant. So I don't think bindweed is the answer. But I'll research it more because the leaves do look like the pictures you linked to.
Nov 28, 2018 23:45:06 #
AzPicLady wrote:
Thanks for the link. I guess I'd question if they would allow an invasive plant at the zoo. It's quite a gardener's paradise. And it wasn't ON something. It was the plant. So I don't think bindweed is the answer. But I'll research it more because the leaves do look like the pictures you linked to.
Ah, a garden? That opens up the possibilities. It is very rare to see a garden that is not full of alien (and potentially or actually "invasive") plants, by the way.
If the Morning glory plant was not a vine, but more of a bush, then it was probably Bush morning glory - that makes sense eh?
- Convolvulus cneorum from the coastal Mediterranean areas of Spain, Italy, Croatia and Albania:http://www.plantanswers.com/12_mos_xeriscape_/july/86-Bushmorningglory-JULY-SUMMER.JPG
Is that the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix?
Mike
Nov 29, 2018 08:33:16 #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
Ah, a garden? That opens up the possibilities. It ... (show quote)
I think that's it!!! Thank you!!!. The Desert Botanical Garden is up the road a bit from the zoo. But the zoo has such wonderful plants. Sometimes when I go there and the animals are all sleeping, I end up shooting flowers instead of animals.
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