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Name that plant.......

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I bought this at the local flower shop, it had the lable 'Lilac Star'.... i am thinking Phlox or maybe Campanula, does anyone reconise it, the leaves are small and quite spikey in appearance, and it seems to be quite a neat size approx 8" tall x 8" wide, any and all imput welcome.



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I have nt got a clue but it is a beauty reminds me of flute glasses very pretty.if I see it on my travels around the net I will let you know.

25 Jun, 2009

 

Its not a campanula, might well be a phlox, but there are so many ....

25 Jun, 2009

 

looks like isotoma to me, but i could be wrong..

25 Jun, 2009

 

There is a phlox x arendsii 'Lilac Star' - do I get a gold star now? :-)

25 Jun, 2009

 

looking at it on the interweb Andrew, not sure thats the one..

25 Jun, 2009

 

Could it be Laurentia?

25 Jun, 2009

 

My first thought was Laurentia too

26 Jun, 2009

 

I think Loulabelle is right and I narrow it down to Beth's Blue Laurentia

www.wwgreenhouses.com/images/AnnuLaubetblu2.jpg

26 Jun, 2009

 

laurentia- good another name for isotoma 8-)

26 Jun, 2009

 

thank you all of you for your saggestions, thing is i have the RHS bible in front of me and i can not find any reference to Laurentia, or Isotoma.... are these the common names guys? if so do we know latin? and i can look it up to compair sorry to be such a pain, i reconise all of these names but not sure what to look under?

Oh and Andrew, my first thought too, but i am not so sure because the plant i have has quite long stems with the flowers on the ends which although they look alike in the picture does'nt quite match the discription...but i am not ruling this one out just yet..... will wait to look up the others..

27 Jun, 2009

 

found it!...and yes under Laurentia in my Hessayon plant finder... it does have quite a few names does'nt it... i have reference now to Solenopsis, Isotoma and Laurentia, which are all one and the same,,,and there is one listed that is called L. axillaris 'Blue Star' so i would imagine that this is just another verson of that one, so thanks to all of you....and on this occation no gold stars for you AndrewR lol...:-(

28 Jun, 2009

 

Ahh, now we know :)

28 Jun, 2009

 

I must do better :-(

28 Jun, 2009

 

Oh bless.
x

28 Jun, 2009

 

I guess we can let you off on this one occasion Andrew, it's not often that you are wrong....just don't do it again.. lol... thanks for the imput anyway.

29 Jun, 2009

How do I say thanks?

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