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Flower ID - first posting
I don't know if it's usual to make an intro or not. Anyway, I'm a
retired physicist who has taken up the study and identification of native plants as a hobby. Live in Aiken, SC. At http://www.flickr.com/photos/raphanus97 are three photos of a plant that has me stumped. If it weren't for the five pointed petals I'd guess it was Common Toadflax (Nuttallanthus canadensis) Please educate me if my photos are lacking or whatever... |
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Flower ID - first posting
Raphanus wrote:
I don't know if it's usual to make an intro or not. Anyway, I'm a retired physicist who has taken up the study and identification of native plants as a hobby. Live in Aiken, SC. At http://www.flickr.com/photos/raphanus97 are three photos of a plant that has me stumped. If it weren't for the five pointed petals I'd guess it was Common Toadflax (Nuttallanthus canadensis) Please educate me if my photos are lacking or whatever... It looks to me like Wahlenbergia marginata (Thunb.) de Candolle, in the family Campanulaceae. Naturalized, introduced from Asia. |
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Flower ID - first posting
You're right! Thanks. My usual references, "Botany in a Day" (I bet
this book is loved here.) by Elpel, "A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina" by Porcher and Rayner and Newcomb's "Wildflower Guide" were of no help at all. (The latter understandably so because the flower doesn't exist in the NE.) The academic tome "Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas" by Radford et. al. has a short paragraph devoted to the genus. The Univ. of So. Car. Herbarium site http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/herb/WW/W...marginata1.jpg has a nice photo. If I had known where to look, I'd've recognized it. [Being a grad of So. Cal. I have a hard time calling Univ. of So. Car., USC. :-)] I try to identify the plants myself without consulting real live experts. When I give up and ask, I feel that I've failed, but my curiosity demands an answer. A Catch-22. Thanks again. Malcolm Manners wrote: Raphanus wrote: I don't know if it's usual to make an intro or not. Anyway, I'm a retired physicist who has taken up the study and identification of native plants as a hobby. Live in Aiken, SC. At http://www.flickr.com/photos/raphanus97 are three photos of a plant that has me stumped. If it weren't for the five pointed petals I'd guess it was Common Toadflax (Nuttallanthus canadensis) Please educate me if my photos are lacking or whatever... It looks to me like Wahlenbergia marginata (Thunb.) de Candolle, in the family Campanulaceae. Naturalized, introduced from Asia. |
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