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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: johnall on August 18, 2012, 05:55:53 AM

Title: Plant ID
Post by: johnall on August 18, 2012, 05:55:53 AM

This Tiny Treasure has popped up in an 'abandoned pot' not sure if anyone can help with ID

Title: Re: Plant ID
Post by: Hoy on August 18, 2012, 07:15:57 AM

Looks like Scoliopus bigelowii.

Title: Re: Plant ID
Post by: Maggi Young on August 18, 2012, 09:48:23 AM

Good to have you posting, John  8)

Trond has hit that nail on the head.  It is Scoliopus bigelowii, a delightful little Western American woodlander.  It should put up a succession of those well-marked flowers and as the foliage develops and ages, the leaves will lose their spots.  Great plant, I love it!

Title: Re: Plant ID
Post by: johnall on August 18, 2012, 10:08:12 AM

Thanks for the info and positive ID. My Scoliopus bigelowii seems to have been hiding for two years, it was indeed given to me two years ago, and I really thought I had lost it and had forgotten about it completely, we do not see many of these where i am..... Thanks again..... And thanks for the extra info Maggi