Well, I ain’t too proud to look it up, but I’m stumped! Could it be in the waterleaf family, either genus Phacelia or Hydrophyllum? I can’t make out the leaves in your photo, and don’t know the environment you found it in. The OCD bot-geek in me won’t let it go!
Interesting, it must be a more TN area native species; it’s not in my northeastern/central books. I can’t wait to compare natives in the two areas. Also to grow them down there!
Wow, what is that? It looks familiar.
I can’t remember, and I’m angry that I can’t remember, and I refuse to look it up because I want to remember it on my own. Dammit.
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Well, I ain’t too proud to look it up, but I’m stumped! Could it be in the waterleaf family, either genus Phacelia or Hydrophyllum? I can’t make out the leaves in your photo, and don’t know the environment you found it in. The OCD bot-geek in me won’t let it go!
You nailed it! And reminded me in the process. It’s a Fringed Phacelia. I remembered the “Fringed” part but couldn’t remember “Phacelia”.
Yay! That was synch!
Was it this? My Ohio wildflower group IDed it. http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PHPU3 Phacelia purshii, Miami Mist. If so, that’s what I guessed.
I checked my book – it’s a Phacelia Fimbriata
Interesting, it must be a more TN area native species; it’s not in my northeastern/central books. I can’t wait to compare natives in the two areas. Also to grow them down there!
/Users/laurenshepard/Desktop/13161895_10206479854574927_7539357667098081521_o.jpg Can you open this? It’s a version of Phacelia here in Ohio.