Gottagarden, the exact same thing happened to me. I ended up with those orange daylilies too(Hemerocallis). That was my first introduction to "common" names from people who are not really into gardening. I try and use the latin if it's pronouncable (and that's a big IF on some of those honkers) or appropriate to the situation. For instance I certainly wouldn't ask the clerk at Walmart where the Hemerocallis are. Pointless. Funny about prejudice though. I once asked a friend of mine why she didn't use the latin to talk about some of her plants when she knew what it was. She replied that the rest of her friends would think she was trying to be uppity. So now I realize that there are people out there who garden who don't want to know more then they already know and consider it snobbish to use a name they are not familiar with. I like to learn the latin if possible and how to pronounce it. But I guess there are two different ways to see things even in gardening...One of the strangest common name mix ups was when I lived in Indiana. I was told that some people refer to Bell Green Peppers as Green Mangos. Now that would be confusing.

The "tri-color" (not the scientific name, thought I saw Rose-Marg????? something once) foliage is pretty darned interesting. Folks plant Bradford Pears all the time for the 13-20 days worth of flowers they have. Tri-Color is GREAT for a few months out of the year if you like that type of thing, and I do. Next county over someone in the parks department likes them. I've seen two. Later in the season when the pink whitens out one of them crisps up a little. Its not the most attractive thing. The other just faded to the white edge. My tiny 1 foot grafted one stayed strong all year, the pink did fade but all 30 or so of its leaves stayed attractive, weird. Its on the corner of the dampish part of the yard. I gave it about 1/2 gallon of water every 4 days or so w/o rain. Gets sun probably 10am to 4pm or 5pm over the summer.

This looks to be some kind of peppergrass, and a search on Dogpile I did turned up one site for a dried flower supplier that that identified its "Petticoat Lace" as a "sm peppergrass." The genus is lepidium -- it's a brassica, a member of the mustard family. They're fairly common spring wildflowers/weeds that you usually find in old hayfields, pastures and other open areas. There are a lot of species and they have a lot of similarities when they're dried. You could do a Google image search on peppergrass to see likely candidates (before drying). You can also search for "lepidium" on the USDA Plants database, but be sure to select the "scientific name" search option. Using the "common name" option and searching for "pepper grass" gets no results for some reason. For my money, L. virginicum seems to be a good possibility, but I really can't tell. Here is a link that might be useful: USDA Plants Database

I just checked one of my old posts that had been truncated that I did not contact Houzz about and I can't imagine anyone else contacting them about. It has been fixed! They also restored the photo hyperlinks to view the pictures larger for the existing externally hosted photos. Plus they removed the crazy fixed width attribute they had added to the image tags that forced all smaller pictures to stretch to 500 pixels wide. So that is three really big improvements recently. Not sure why they don't mention all the fixes in their "updates" section. I thought I would check the butterfly FAQ to see if they were fixed, but many still seem cut and have the "..." at the end. That normally indicates that there is content that doesn't fit (at least on this site as far as I can tell). But, none of my posts that were truncated ever had the "...", so that may be a separate issue? It is good to know they are still working on things, even if they aren't saying it :) I was a little worried because on another thread a while ago one of the admins had said that the truncated posts should be fixed, but to let them know if we found more. I thought, oh no....if they are actually fixed then we shouldn't be finding more. I checked mine at that time and it wasn't fixed, but I wanted to just wait and see if and when it was fixed. Now it is. So they are still working on it I guess.