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ID this ever returning flower...
My landlord asked me if I knew what this was. I haven't spotted it
anywhere on line yet. http://members.aol.com/digitalvinyl66/cornflower.jpg It grows about 15-18" high. The plant is a stalk that looks like young corn. It has a cluster of flower heads drooping at the top, but they tend to open one or two at a time. The flower are a deep purple with yellow stamen. It grows in a jam-packed cluster that wilts over spreading out and flattened...probably from rain...but will spring back and be upright again. I honestly haven't paid attention if the top growth hangs about in winter, but it is there year after year. It is very resilent. The biggest bunch of it is about 2-3 feet across and more than a foot thick. It is flourishing despite the shade of a bush that is becoming a tree next to it. They tried to get rid of it growing around a downspout but it has been returning there for 30 years. It gets direct sun there, and seems to flower more consistently with sun. NY, near NYC Zone 7, (reclassified this year from Zone 6) DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) |
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