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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Jean-Patrick AGIER on September 19, 2009, 09:51:49 PM

Title: unknown plant 2009= Helenium amarum ?
Post by: Jean-Patrick AGIER on September 19, 2009, 09:51:49 PM

Hi everybody,
Last year I've taken seeds of this beautiful plant in a container in the street. After a spring sowing it came quickly and is still in bloom by now. It has small 3cm helenium-like flowers and a thin foliage. It has a trailing habit and is about 15cm high. I've found it to be nice planted alongside convolvulus sabatius. It's probably an annual ( a hybrid? ). Sorry! certainly not a rock garden plant...
Anybody knows something about it?
Many thanks
Kind regards
Jean-Patrick

Title: Re: unknown plant 2009
Post by: mark smyth on September 19, 2009, 11:48:02 PM

It's the small Helenium with small narrow leaves - H. amarum

Title: Re: unknown plant 2009
Post by: Jean-Patrick AGIER on September 20, 2009, 10:43:47 PM

Thanks a lot Mark
J-P

Title: Re: unknown plant 2009= Helenium amarum ?
Post by: Jean-Patrick AGIER on September 22, 2009, 03:58:54 PM

I have some surplus seeds of this Helenium Amarum which might be sown in a rock garden ( why not? ). But I suspect it might be a little invasive by self-seeding?
Anyone interested can send me a pm.
Cheers
J-P

Title: Re: unknown plant 2009= Helenium amarum ?
Post by: mark smyth on September 22, 2009, 04:02:02 PM

Me please.