Can you identify this flower for me?

pam_25f

8 years ago

I have moved and I am trying to learn my garden. Thank you.

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murraysmom Zone 6a OH

8 years ago

Thanks, Rhizo, I thought so, but wasn't sure. Here is mine.

These pictures are about 3 years old. The "crop" this year was way bigger. It has really spread since a neighbor gave me two or three stems of it!!

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pkramer60
8 years ago
It is St. John's Wart, a sun loving perennial.
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marcia_m
8 years ago
I think it might be a kind of Missouri primrose. The leaves look wrong for St. John's wart.
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Amazing Aunt Audrey
8 years ago
Its not St Johns. Not sure its a primrose either. Can you show a closeup of the flower?
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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
8 years ago
There's a forum here at gw called name that plant, I love it, they are very good at naming plants.
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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
8 years ago
Name that plant
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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
8 years ago
Evening Primrose. It's a wierd angle, and not all of the leaves you see belong to the primrose.
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murraysmom Zone 6a OH
8 years ago
Rhizo, is Evening Primrose also called Sun Drops? That's what I have and it looks very similar.
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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
8 years ago
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Yes, murraysmom, same plant with different common names....though there are more than one or two species of Oenothera.
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drewsmaga
8 years ago
Perennial Peanut?
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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
8 years ago
Drews, your suggestion is a legume; they have very unique flowers....always recognizable as a legume. But it's at least yellow, lol! And pretty, too.
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arkansas girl
8 years ago
Thanks for posting this, I was also wondering what this is! It's blooming right now in Ohio and a lot of people have it in their landscaping, it is a perennial because every year I see it and wonder what it is because I want some! I have not found it at any store/nursery though! UGH! I thought it was called buttercup but I really have no idea. It's beautiful though and apparently it's very hardy because it is blooming like crazy all over the place and we got to -16 over the winter!
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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
8 years ago
It does look like the pretty buttercup, very much so. Believe it or not, the two aren't even related. Look closely....the primrose flower has four petals, while Ranunculus (buttercup) flowers have five.

But, for me, the identification was obvious when I saw the closeup picture showing the unique X-shaped stigma elevated above the rest of the floral structure. That's a physical structure common to Oenothera species...look HERE to see what I mean.

Forgive the "lecturer mode". Anything of a horticultural nature is my profession and my passion. :-)
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arkansas girl
8 years ago
The plants over here have a wider leaf, not the pointed shaped one of the primrose but I'm seeing different plants when I do a search, some with pointed leaves that look nothing like our plants and some with the wider leaf that does look like it. Now I'm confused.
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arkansas girl
8 years ago
The plants up here are just exactly like Murraysmom has pictured. So y'all are saying that is in fact an evening primrose? If I could know the name, I could ask the nursery if they ever get those or maybe even have some seeds. I'm assuming they seed freely?
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pam_25f
Original Author
8 years ago
Thank you everyone. This plant is in several places in the garden. It is so pretty. I have some tall lilies that are about to bloom. Can't wait.