Re: 'mystery' Blue Annual
Chad, your "mystery plant" sounds to me like Phacelia campanularia,
commonly called California bluebells here in southern Arizona. Here in the
desert it's mostly a spring wildflower, but if it has some water it can
continue blooming through the summer. It's a beautiful deep blue, all
right! And it does self-sow to some extent, though never as much as I would
like...
I found two pictures of Phacelia campanularia on the web, at:
http://metalab.unc.edu/herbmed/pictures/p-se/phaccamp.jpg
and
http://metalab.unc.edu/herbmed/pictures/p-se/phaccam1.jpg
How about it Chad, do these pictures look like your mystery plant?
regards,
Katherine Waser
Tucson, Arizona
At 02:57 PM 9/7/99 -0700, you wrote:
> I would like to identify a 'mystery' plant , I believe it came in
>one of the many seed mixtures I have played with - apologies in advance for
>poor use of nomenclature. It has been able to self sow but not aggressively
>- grows rapidly enough to flower in 2 months. The flowers are bell shaped
>and upward facing, not in a spike or raceme, Blue - the true deep blue of
>Salvia Patens - and unmarked. The leaves are sparse on a rambling plant to
>18", somewhat hairy and veined - not unlike a hybrid begonia but smaller and
>more rounded (Quarter/Dollar sized). Any guess's ?
>
>Chad Schroter
>Los Gatos CA Zone 9
>
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