Re: plant id request (no attachments)

Looks like Justicia spicigera.
 
Joe

ikuffel@cisco.com wrote:

Dear fellow gardeners,

Can you please help me identify a plant in my garden
that came with no tag.

It is currently about knee-high (planted from a quart-size
pot in April). Leaves are about 1.5", medium green, soft
and furry/velvety to the touch, in opposite pairs on a
stem that is round and also velvety.

Flowers are orange, small, narrowly tubular with a lip,
about 1 inch long. Flowers look a little like salvia, but
I don't think that it is a salvia. Bloom is light but
constant.

There is a (65kb) picture of the plant at
http://www.geocities.com/ikuffel/ID/plant.jpg
(I got down on the ground to shoot this, so the
perspective is misleading in that it looks
larger than it really is - it's r! eally only
about a foot and a half tall)

and a closeup (45kb) of the flowers at:
http://www.geocities.com/ikuffel/ID/closeup.jpg

Thank you,

-- Irene

Irene Kuffel,
Napa Valley, California.




Joe Seals
Santa Maria, California --
where the weather is always perfect
and my NEW garden will soon be blooming and full of birds and butterflies
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