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Help me identify my plant!

naturalgardner
14 years ago

Hello all. Boy it's been years since I've been on Gardenweb.

Anyhoo, there's this wonderful organization where I live that rescues plants on their last leg from various nurseries as well as vacant lots and abandoned homes around the city. Some of the annuals are free and others can be purchased for a quarter. They've been doing this for 10 years, but I'm just now hearing about it. Some of the plants have their information/care tags and some do not.

Well, I went crazy and got tons of flowers, including some annuals that had foliage very similar to lantana yet the blossoms were definately not that of a lantana plant. It has grown very tall and has stalks with little white "airplane" looking flowers all over. It has over taken the container. It's very lovely. However, I cannot find a similar plant anywhere on the internet or at any of the area nurseries. It takes full sun (I just guessed on that) and doesn't even think about wilting if it doesn't get water right away. It's in the same container with some lantana, snap dragons, fiber optic grass and a couple of petunas.

Any clue what this might be?

Here are some links:

http://public.fotki.com/NaturalGardner/unknown-flower/img1058vi.html

http://images51.fotki.com/v1547/fileZwbD/c01b5/5/1008385/7798427/IMG_1056.jpg

This is a close up of the lantana. You can see that the leaves are very similar to my unidentified plant.

http://images49.fotki.com/v856/filexaCG/c01b5/5/1008385/7798427/IMG_1057.jpg

Thanks in advance for anyone's help!