Re: Unknown Perennial
- To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Unknown Perennial
- From: "* Y* <m*@javanet.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:42:14 -0000
Hi Pat,
I have some spider wort, so I know what that looks like. This is much
smaller and the flower are not round when they are closed, they are like a
small cylinder. The leaves are not long like the spider wort.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Mitchell <pat-mitchell@juno.com>
To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: Saturday, May 30, 1998 3:30 AM
Subject: Re: Unknown Perennial
>>Marie from Massachusetts wrote:
>> It is a baby plant = about 1 foot tall and a very skinny stalk with
>only 3 leaves, widely spaced. It >has very lovely purple blossoms all
>clustered together in >the crook where the leaf joins the stem. >She
>plants a lot of medicinal herbs, so I'm wondering if it is one of those.
>Any ideas?
>
>Are the leaves almost like thick grass? When the flowers are done
>blooming do the spent blooms hang down under the cleft where the leaf
>meets the stem? Are there three little yellow stamens in the center of
>the purple flower? If so, sounds like a spiderwort to me. Have no
>fear, by the fall you'll have zillions, and next spring they'll put on a
>wonderful show for you.
>
>Pat
>Pat-Mitchell@juno.com
>
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