Plant ID?

9 years ago

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I saw this unlabeled plant in the perennial section of a native plants display garden here in OKC. Its about 2.5 ft tall and 3.5 ft wide. Anyone know what it is?

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peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I believe it is Amsonia tabernaemontana or one of its variants. I grow A. hubrichtii and have always wanted A. t. and every other Amsonia - great plants.
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dbarron
9 years ago
A hubrichtii has the best form, but I think illustris has the best flowers (or at least more of them). Illustris branches and puts on a second show, which is somewhat unusual for Amsonias.

The photo above is a mature row of hubrichtii in a local park that I took last week.

The above is illustris, with it's white ribbed leaves and beautiful flower clusters.
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Saintpfla, sorry for the delayed response. I lost track of this thread and ran acrossed it looking for something else. I am not good at looking at pics for id's. To me it doesn't look the same but I could be wrong. On the swamp bay, if you break the leaf apart, it smells alot like bay leaf. The new leaves are soft and fuzzy and the old leaves are not. The new leaves on your pic look the same as the older ones. The flower is so very small it is hard to tell when it is open and the flower is greenish. I don't remember a smell to the flower.
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9 years ago
I agree, the most appealing is the foliage texture, form and fall color of A. hubrichii, I'd grow it for that, not the flowers. Somehow that light blue with deep green color combo isn't appealing. I did think the seed pods were cool on this one.

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