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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: ashley on September 30, 2007, 10:16:51 PM

Title: Townsendia
Post by: ashley on September 30, 2007, 10:16:51 PM

This came from the SRGC seedex last January as Townsendia jonesii.  Can anyone confirm, refine or correct the id please?

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: ranunculus on September 30, 2007, 10:34:07 PM

100% against it being Townsendia jonesii Ashley....will investigate the possibilities.

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: mark smyth on September 30, 2007, 11:36:42 PM

either way it's cute. I have lots of Townsendia seedlings in a trough that came up this year

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: ashley on October 01, 2007, 09:50:02 AM

Thanks Cliff & Mark but I made a mistake at this end unfortunately!  Is it Heterotheca jonesii (syn. Chrysopsis jonesii)?

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: mark smyth on October 01, 2007, 11:27:31 AM

Is it outside or in a pot?

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: ashley on October 01, 2007, 02:34:36 PM

Both - in the queue for planting!

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: Gerdk on October 01, 2007, 05:56:11 PM

Ashley,
Did you ever try the Gardenweb Forum 'Name That Plant'?
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/namegal/

It seems to me they are able to identify nearly each plant, especially North American species.

Gerd

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: annew on October 01, 2007, 07:44:03 PM

Hmm, that looks useful. I may give it a go if I'm still stuck after seeing it again. Thanks, Gerd.

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: mark smyth on October 01, 2007, 07:48:07 PM

just be wary of the owner Spike. Nowhere close to this forum 'owner' Maggi

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: Maggi Young on October 01, 2007, 08:46:15 PM

I think I am more accurately described as a forum "minder", Mark! I'm glad to hear that I have little in common with someone called Spike, though...  ::)

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: rob krejzl on October 01, 2007, 09:22:44 PM

Gardenweb is now a Spike-free zone Mark.

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: mark smyth on October 01, 2007, 09:25:18 PM

really!? Did someone buy him out?

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: rob krejzl on October 01, 2007, 09:32:34 PM

Gardenweb changed hands a year or more ago.

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: ashley on October 02, 2007, 02:21:55 PM

Quote from: Gerdk on October 01, 2007, 05:56:11 PM

Did you ever try the Gardenweb Forum 'Name That Plant'?
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/namegal/
It seems to me they are able to identify nearly each plant, especially North American species.

Good idea, Gerd.  Thanks.

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 02, 2007, 08:49:26 PM

Are not all Townsendias either white or shades of purple?

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: Maggi Young on October 02, 2007, 09:20:50 PM

Good point, Lesley... all the ones I have seen are!
I'm thinking Ashley is right enough with his Heterotheca jonesii (syn. Chrysopsis jonesii)

I must start paying more attention to daisies...I have no idea when an Erigeron becomes a Heterotheca, for instance... and lord knows, they're similar in many ways! Maybe I'll come back in another life as a botanist  :-[

Title: Re: Townsendia
Post by: mark smyth on October 02, 2007, 09:42:50 PM

I'm a self confessed daisy nut. In the summer my garden is packed with 'em. Ashley et al if you want to see small composites go see Czech gardens or head to the good ole U S of A. One day I'll get to the latters mountains