Re: plant ID
- Subject: Re: [SG] plant ID
- From: K* D*
- Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 07:10:54 EDT
Nancy,
Could it possibly be rue anemone (Anemonella thalictroides)? It is about
4-6" tall has red stems, rose colored foilage and hepatica like flowers.
Foliage sort of looks like meadowrue, which sort of looks like corydalis.
Kay Dye, Edelstein, IL zone 5
n a message dated 5/9/02 9:24:08 AM Central Daylight Time, stedman@RCN.COM
writes:
> Wonder if anyone can help me with this. Last summer our community garden
> received a grapefruit-spoonful (literally) of a plant that I assumed was
> some kind of corydalis because of the leaves. I placed it with some soil in
> a crevice of a boulder in the shade, and it grew and looked healthy. The
> plant is now about six inches wide. I kept expecting to see some typical
> corydalis blooms but last time I looked I was shocked to find mauve flowers
> about one-half to three-quarter inches wide with five petals, arrayed the
> same way as hepatica flowers. I'm stymied. Does anyone know what kind of
> plant this is?
>
