Re: Sunflower?
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- Subject: Re: Sunflower?
- From: M* S*
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:19:39 -0400
Thanks Barb...
I guess I should have finished my story. I planted my crop as soon as I
got home.....They held the flowers for another 3-4 weeks...which tells me
that the plants must have taken to my soil ok. I'm really expecting them to
put on a show next year.
The flowers on the Wisc. plants were identical to the ones I found 70
miles upriver. However the 'homegrown' ones were a full 3-4 feet taller.
I appreciate you taking the time to research.
Neil...in N.B.
..by the way...this was in NE Wisc....lots of deer up there.....
..and Yes...tags would be nice.
-----Original Message-----
From: Barb Pernacciaro <bpern@idcnet.com>
To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: February 1, 1999 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: Sunflower?
>Neil-
>
>In-state tuition is bad enough.
>
>Hard to tell what the yellow flowers are, but here are a few guesses:
>The common wild sunflower?, except there are so many species around. There
is
>one even called Indian potato (Helianthus giganteus) which makes me think
it has
>tubers. Or how about H. maximilianii - Prairie sunflower(6-8 ft.) which is
even
>offered in the Park Seed catalog (p. 67). Definitely hardy to zone 4. I
don't
>know if it is the one in the roadside ditches around here, but I guess it
could
>be called a weed. There are even some called river sunflowers (H.
decapetalus);
>and I bet they all cross pollinate!!
>
>I have some variety in the back of my yard (was here when we moved in)
which
>blooms in pretty shady conditions in late summer. It spreads a lot by
rhizomes!
>(I've tried to contain it).
>
>One year I grew Jerusalem artichokes (H. tuberosus) in my garden; I was
told
>they wouldn't bloom here (too short a season), but they did -- a 3 inch
yellow
>daisy-type flower. I grew it for the edible tubers, and inevitably missed a
few
>during harvest, had it the following year, and finally got rid of it! Too
>vigorous.
>
>If yours grows and blooms, take a flower or a whole plant to a botanist for
>identification. Why doesn't God put tags on his wild flowers?
>--
>Barb P.
>SE Wisconsin, Zone 4
>
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