Hi Yale, thanks for asking! From the info Jekeesl provided, I think the plant with the purple-backed leaves that I've always known as C. repens IS the real C. repens. C. cordifolia is still the best match I can find for the other one. It's understandable that most people would think they are the same plant, unless they have both to notice the many subtle differences. So many 'reputable' sources have pics of the plant #2 that makes extremely conspicuous flowers, labeled C. repens. I don't understand all of the anatomy words, but here's the full description of both. Without pics, I'm lost reading these. I can't find anything in the C. repens description indicating purple-backed leaves, but may just be from lack of comprehension. What does everyone else think? Thanks for your interest, Tiffany 6. Callisia repens (Jacquin) Linnaeus, Sp. Pl., ed. 2. 1: 62. 1762. Herbs, perennial, mat-forming, repent (flowering stems ascending). Leaves 2-ranked, gradually reduced toward ends of flowering stems; blade ovate to lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, 1--3.5 ô 0.6--1 cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins scabrid, apex acute, glabrous. Inflorescences sessile in axils of distal leaves of flowering stems, composed of pairs of sessile cymes (sometimes reduced to single cymes). Flowers bisexual and pistillate, odorless, subsessile; petals inconspicuous, white, lanceolate, 3--6 mm; stamens 0--6, long-exserted; filaments glabrous; ovary 2-locular, stigma penicillate. Capsules 2-locular. Seeds 1 mm. Flowering early spring (Tex.) or summer--fall (Fla.). Shady, rocky or gravelly places, and in citrus groves; introduced; Fla., La., Tex.; West Indies; South America (to Argentina). *************** 7. Callisia cordifolia (Swartz) E. S. Anderson & Woodson, Contr. Arnold Arbor. 9: 117. 1935. Tradescantia cordifolia Swartz, Prodr., 57. 1788; Leiandra cordifolia (Swartz) Rafinesque; Phyodina cordifolia (Swartz) Rohweder; Tradescantella floridana (S. Watson) Small; Tradescantia floridana S. Watson Herbs, perennial, mat-forming. Leaves 2-ranked, gradually reduced toward end of flowering shoot; blade lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic to ovate, 1--3 ô 0.5--1.4 cm (distal leaf blades much narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), margins scabrous, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal and axillary from distal leaves, pedunculate, composed of pairs of sessile cymes; bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, 2--6 mm. Flowers odorless, 4--5 mm wide, pedicillate; sepals distinct, maroon, 2--3 mm; petals white, ovate, 2.5 mm; stamens 6, nearly equal or antipetalous stamens slightly longer than antsepalous; filaments glabrous; ovary 3-locular. Capsules 3-locular. Seeds 0.6--0.7 mm. 2n = 14 (as floridana). Flowering spring--fall. Moist, usually shady places with calcareous soil, e.g., hummocks, fern grottoes, shell middens; Fla., Ga.; Mexico; West Indies; n South America. The...

I think it is more circular than that. Suppose you never had a Houzz account. When they converted GW to Houzz, you were automatically converted to Houzz. So when you tried to confirm your GW account, it said there was already a member by that name, and proposed to call you "username_gw". Even those who had prior and separate Houzz accounts were running into the issue. I messed up somehow trying to confirm my GW account, but managed to get in with my Houzz user name, which shows in my private profile. So I did what was suggested and put my old GW name in the public profile.

Brad, thank you so much for the permission to use the images and also for the extra images. I am writing to the person I bought the plant from and if you agree I will share these images with him so that if he still has any of the plant left that he sold to me as Foxhaven Annie , he can do some searching and find out what it really is . I will be doing the same . Again , many thanks for your kindness.

Your post made me smile because I was going nuts over my Halcyons earlier this Spring. Mine were all divisions of one and the same plant that I bought 7 years ago, and yet all of a sudden this Spring some of them looked way different than in previous years so I wondered if they had sported or reverted. Wouldn't necessarily be the case with yours since you bought them in separate pots, and I can't confirm or deny that yours are all Halcyon, but just wanted to say that even divisions of the same plant can apparently look different from each other, and even different from themselves in different years. If you're going for a symmetrical look like it sounds like you may have by bordering/alternating, hostas are clearly not the plants if you even have a little bit of OCD. Over the years, my Halcyons anywhere near our Dogwood tree have always stayed small (both in leaf size and in mound size...height and all), the ones in more sun are of course less blue, and I suspect that supplemental watering last year and lots of fertilizing early this year resulted in the round, large leaves that some of them had for the first time this Spring. The difference in mine was clear in person but not so much in pics. All the divisions that retained the smaller leaves kept the longer, pointy leaf shape similar to June, but the couple of divisions that seemed to have exploded in leaf size definitely adapted a rounder leaf shape such as yours. Long story short, I don't know if some of yours might be something else, but it is possible that they are all Halcyons that look different due to any combination of things that might be affecting them in their individual spots. I'm attaching early Spring pics of mine (my OCD convinced me to pull most of the divisions, only keeping one, but in hindsight I'd recommend chilling instead). All four of the pots (pictured here) containing the blue hostas are, again, divisions of one Halcyon I bought 7 years ago. They did all become more blue as this Spring went on, although I'm still not convinced that all of them became quite as blue as they used to. So again, as you can see, divisions of the same plant can have different leaf size, leaf shape, leaf color, and possibly even leaf substance (the extra large leaves appeared a bit thinner to me, but I might be imagining things there). Others commented to say that a blue hosta wouldn't revert to another blue, but I don't know if it's possible for it to sport to something that is similar but not the same. As of right now I'm thinking that it is simply the additional water and fertilizer that resulted in the monster growth of some this year while others remained more normal. Keep in mind that mature Halcyon has a leaf size of around 8 x 5 inches, and it can take years for them to display those characteristics (regardless of how old the plants were when you first got them).