Re: Lobelia

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• To: perennials@mallorn.com
• Subject: Re: Lobelia
• From: L*@aol.com
• Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 02:48:13 EDT

 Kristl wrote:  

>>On rare occasions, plants will bypass their proper flower development & head
straight into seed production. This happened to me this year with Aster
alpinus. Reason for this is usually some sort of stress on plant: drought,
damage, etc....<<

Kristl, 

What?  I don't understand how an angiosperm can produce seed without
flowering.
Do you mean that these plants have the reproductive parts of the flower, but
that the petals do not develop properly?  

--Janis

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