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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: ChrisB on August 12, 2016, 05:59:01 PM

Title: Mystery plant ID needed please
Post by: ChrisB on August 12, 2016, 05:59:01 PM

I went to a friends garden today and could not figure out what this was. Hope someone can help me.

Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed please
Post by: Maggi Young on August 12, 2016, 08:21:45 PM

A small Lantana of some sort? No idea what species it may be.  :-[

Must be hardy if in a local garden, eh? so perhaps a Verbena of some kind? (You can tell I know nothing of these plants, can't you?!)
 

Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed please
Post by: ChrisB on August 12, 2016, 09:46:40 PM

Yes, it's certainly hardy. In the garden of long time member Irene Thompson.  It's a really vigorous ground hugging plant. Doesn't flower prolifically. Was going to bring home a cutting but forgot to pick it up, but Irene will find it and pot it for me I'm sure.  I'll look at verbena and lantana, but thought the latter were all tender?

Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed please
Post by: Anthony Darby on August 12, 2016, 11:33:50 PM

Not Lantana. They have rough leaves that look rather like nettle leaves. All Lantanas are tender.

Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed please
Post by: fermi de Sousa on August 13, 2016, 12:24:18 AM

Lippia nodifera, now Phyla nodifera
cheers
fermi


edit by maggi:  I think the  species name fermi mentions is  correctly nodiflora  - a plant with lots of synonyms - from Lantana to Verbena!

Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed please
Post by: Palustris on August 13, 2016, 10:37:34 AM

Have a look at Phyla canescens.

Title: Re: Mystery plant ID needed please
Post by: ChrisB on August 13, 2016, 11:20:39 AM

Thanks so much, I've never heard of or grown it. But I will now!