i need to confirm if da plant with da red flowers is Scarlet Sage.. da leaves do have a smell... but not sure if itz da smell of sage coz i lost my lone baby common sage some time ago n have forgotten what it smells like....
Thanx for your help....
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To me it looks like penstemon, but it's really hard to see from the picture. It could be salvia....... Sorry, I'm no help., but you just helped me!
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I though only stuff in the mint family had square stems...one more new fact!
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Hi everyone... thanx for your responses... zuzu's petals, when i get home i'll check to see whether da stem is squarish... what if it's not... meaning it is not Salvia then..? Then could it b s melcon6 said ...a penstemon??
..n melcon6 u've got me a bit puzzled...of course i'd b very glad if i had been of some help to u or to anyone for that matter...but what puzzles me is...what is it that i had done that has helped u...?
Thanx again everyone..n have a nice day!
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quote:Originally posted by nmlAlba-dC15: Hi everyone... thanx for your responses... zuzu's petals, when i get home i'll check to see whether da stem is squarish... what if it's not... meaning it is not Salvia then..? Then could it b s melcon6 said ...a penstemon??
As Rosie has said, there is a HUGE family of plants with square stems:
quote:Originally posted by TulsaRose; . . . Mints and Salvia, Monarda, bunches more are all in the Lamiaceae family.
but Penstemon isn't a member of that family.
So, finding out if the stem is square or not doesn't nail down the ID absolutely, but it can help, by eliminating certain possibilities, a square stem would rule out Penstemon, while a truly round stem would rule out Salvia.
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i have checked n da stem is truly round.... so it's not Scarlet Sage then....!! Wonder what it is....
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Well . . . . . that's interesting, . . . and not what I expected.
I felt pretty certain that it would have the squarish stems of salvia/sage, the foliage in the foreground really convinced me, perhaps they are not part of the same plant?
Maybe it is a Penstemon, though the ones I'm familiar with have lanceolate foliage.
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after reading your post i made another check... da last time i didnt look very carefully, i think...i just touched da stem...feeling it n thot it was truly round... this second time i looked more closely ... u r RIGHT!!! Da stem is squarish... it was small i thot it was round! So it is Scarlet sage after all..?
TQ soo very much for your responses... u have been a great help...!!
Have a nice day!
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