Thanks so much! This weekend I am headed to a nursery that sells native plants. To plant my hillside next to our waterfall we put in. May have to transplant this one. It really is a good size and has a lot of blooms.

The description of this blue flower was so intriguing that I kept checking back to see if anyone ID'd it so was glad to see David's answer. . A photo of Blue Waterleaf/Hydrolea ovata is on the Wildflower Center website. I can see a family resemblance to the native waterleaf I grew in Illinois (Hydrophyllum virginianum), but no spines grew out of that flower! Annie at the Transplantable Rose Here is a link that might be useful: Hydrolea ovata

hello, sent you an email. I have many milk weed seeds left over that could use a good home.

The flowers don't look like Spiranthes. They are bell shaped and no leaves--I dug around through the other weeds and grasses growing with it and it is just a stalk of flowers. Any other thoughts? I have tried looking this up in The Audubon Field Guide to North American Wildflowers and it looks like Colicroot but much shorter and no basil leaves so I don't think that is it.