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Author Garden: Mystery Wildflower afgreyparrot Official Problem Child Member # 1991 posted                       I have a problem with digging up plants (wild flowers) on the side of the road, out at my farm, etc... I have been known to dig up beautiful flowers and plant them in my yard...then when they are finished blooming they have terrible spiney things (I call them "hitchhikers") that stick to your clothes... Well, anyway...I saw this at the farm Saturday. It is so pretty. Before I dig it up I wanted to know if it is going to turn into some kind of mean, alien thing when it finishes blooming. It is so pretty right now! Cindy Jo * * * * Buckle up! It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car! Plants: 43285 | Registered: Mar 2004  |  Seeded: 70.35.241.223 plants 'n pots Garden Pro! Member # 1672 posted                       Looks like it's in the Aster family? * * * * Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Plants: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 68.192.121.47 RugbyHukr Garden Pro! Member # 5274 posted                       It is a wild aster. Most likely aster cordifolius . Although I am not positive as I cannot see the leaf. * * * * I love the sweet scents wafting in the breeze. I stop to admire the vibrant colors of all living things. And people think me odd. Then ODD I am!!! http://community.webshots.com/user/flugnash Plants: 1058 | From: SoCal via WV | Registered: Apr 2005  |  Seeded: 134.173.124.46 afgreyparrot Official Problem Child Member # 1991 posted                       Yep...that's definitely what it is! Thanks! I have these all over my yard I dug off the side of the road... So...I take it these are just a different kind of aster? I wish I could remember stuff like the rest of you. My mind just doesn't work that way! * * * * Buckle up! It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car! Plants: 43285 | Registered: Mar 2004  |  Seeded: 70.35.241.223 obywan59 Garden Pro! Member # 2222 posted                       No Cindy, they are "hardy ageratum" or Eupatorium coelestinum. * * * * Terry May the force be with you Plants: 1370 | From: Copper Hill, Virginia | Registered: Apr 2004  |  Seeded: 207.69.138.143 afgreyparrot Official Problem Child Member # 1991 posted                       Well, crap... ...I thought I learned two plants and only had to remember one name! So many plant names...so little time! Thank you guys! I have another picture to post...but I probably need to try to remember these names before my brain gets put into shock trying to learn 3 of them! * * * * Buckle up! It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car! Plants: 43285 | Registered: Mar 2004  |  Seeded: 70.35.241.223 obywan59 Garden Pro! Member # 2222 posted                       Not to make things more difficult, but I just looked it up in my Peterson Guide to Wildflowers and it's also called Mist flower. I got my start along the road also (The Blue Ridge Parkway) when I was riding bike one day. I just pulled one stem with the roots attached and broke most of the stem off so I could hide it in my bike bag. It would have been a $50 fine if I'd have gotten caught. That was 2 years ago, and now it's grown into a patch about 3 feet across. * * * * Terry May the force be with you Plants: 1370 | From: Copper Hill, Virginia | Registered: Apr 2004  |  Seeded: 207.69.138.143 RugbyHukr Garden Pro! Member # 5274 posted                       No worries ! That is still in the aster family. I could not see the leaves originally. * * * * I love the sweet scents wafting in the breeze. I stop to admire the vibrant colors of all living things. And people think me odd. Then ODD I am!!! http://community.webshots.com/user/flugnash Plants: 1058 | From: SoCal via WV | Registered: Apr 2005  |  Seeded: 134.173.124.46

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