Gee, Andrew, I guess I'd better get your second book! I don't suppose you'd want to send me a copy........? No, didn't think so. ;-) Never mind, someone was kind enough to email me a photo of the page in question. It's kind of hard to see enough detail to determine the texture of the leaf though, and there's no inflorescence on the pink one on the right, which I assume is what you are referring to. Frankly I'm not convinced that is in fact a form of N. cruenta, despite what the tag may say. I'm not seeing cruenta for mine either. The petals are more of a pale lavender blue than the typical cruenta sky blue, and the floral bracts don't have that characteristic in-turned scoop shape that cruenta inflos have. And again with the leaf texture and growth habit-- every verified true species cruenta I've seen has leaves as tough as rhino hide, and is somewhat stoloniferous as well. This is neither. And I've never seen a real cruenta that blushed pink in the cup. My guess is that a lot of what you're seeing as that species has been misidentified or is of hybrid origin. Much as I'd love my plant to be a new species, Kerry, I'm starting to get some indications that it probably is a hybrid. I did some crosses with it, and although they're still small, the seedlings are showing a degree of variability and unexpected pigmentation that points more to mixed ancestry. Next time it blooms, though, I'll take some more detailed photos and even dissect a flower and see if the BIC has anything to say about it.

Rhonda, thanks - I wish I would have those in my yard - so colorful. No, this plant's blooming area seems to be grey-green tufts, with tiniest of couple of pink blooms - too small to attract butterflies. I love it because it is so unlike all the other volunteers: tall and tough with that triangular look (from above) of the younger flower heads.

Might your second rose be Elle ? Her colors are quite variable — there’s a good representation of her range at helpmefind page —but the salmon pink edges and yellow reverse looks right. She stayed shorter for me, nice sweet scent, released about 20 years ago to great fanfare, so was a hot new release at time.

Wil Blue Hyssop? I may have gotten some from you. Agastache, alas, seems not to like our climate here. Passionflowers? Bought a few over the years, but they were not very long-lived... probably because I failed to plant them. The Florida native, Passiflora suberosa "corkstem vine" ...... ...pops up in my (large, rangy) yard. Here is a photo from June 2020 of zebra longwing butterflies (I guess all males) hovering near the vine growing throughout a low azalea bush. They are back again (but a month later) in the same protected spot.