LeeAnne,

Plant is now about 2 feet tall, has purple coneflower style leaves (ie
sorta
start fat at the stalk and go more pointy), the stalk is fairly dark
green
& bamboo like , ie grows in noticeable segments or sections, and it looks
like it's going to have some very small purple flowers on a stalk at the
top
but not a lot of them - sort of a wispy little flower stalk like grass
seed
(those are subject to change as it's still growing). I think there are 3
or
4 stalks all coming up, seemingly one plant.

Mmmh, sounds like a member of the Polygonaceae (hope I spelled it right)
family. If the leaves weren't purple, I would have said: Fallopia japonica.
But that one has got green leaves and a somewhat rhubarb-coloured stalk. And
it's a *weed*!
Hopefully your plant is something else, otherwise you've got a problem....

Bye, Gaby

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Mrs. Gaby Chaudry
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