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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Palustris on April 13, 2015, 08:39:08 PM

Title: Small creeping plant
Post by: Palustris on April 13, 2015, 08:39:08 PM

Put us out of our misery and id this small creeping plant, flowers are about an inch across.
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TIA

Title: Re: Small creeping plant
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 13, 2015, 10:06:02 PM

I'm sure I've seen it growing here in Auckland.

Title: Re: Small creeping plant
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 14, 2015, 12:27:52 AM

Modiola caroliniana - red flowered mallow
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Small creeping plant
Post by: Jupiter on April 14, 2015, 12:58:47 AM

You beat me to it Fermi, I am familiar with that one too, it grows around Adelaide. At first glance one can mistake it for Anagallis. Only when you get up close do you see the classic Malvaceae characteristics.

Title: Re: Small creeping plant
Post by: Palustris on April 14, 2015, 02:32:06 PM

Brilliant, thank you very much!