Timeline for What is this tiny blue/purple flower with thin, vinelike stems, in Charles City, Virginia?
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| S Apr 18, 2019 at 10:06 | history | suggested | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2017 at 3:20 | comment | added | Diane | So sorry that I did not see this additional/modified answer sooner. This is not water hyacinth, either. (I personally sold those in a garden center that also sold pond plants and supplies.) But maybe I need to be researching swamp plants that may stray to meadows at this point. I really do wish that there was a way to focus more on the leaves/stems/roots. I do not believe that any ID will be found using the tiny berry-like flower. | |
| May 29, 2017 at 23:04 | comment | added | stormy | @Sue I am still not sold on water hyacinth. This is a buggar. Pnuts reply with water hyacinth sent me into another rabbit hole...Unbelievable that I couldn't find the exact leaf (with some serration/lobing) and that tiny nub of a flower. But besides Pickerel weed and hyacinth...the roads have been dead ended. I've got questions on other sites and included Sharon's pictures. Terrible OCD. I have to tear myself away to get anything done! | |
| May 29, 2017 at 22:58 | comment | added | Sue Saddest Farewell TGO GL | stormy, @pnuts is the one who knows about water hyacinths, not me! I'm not that smart! Earlier under this answer I asked you in a comment if having roots instead of bulbs ruled out hyacinth. That comment from pnuts was to let me know hyacinth do have roots, if they're water hyacinth. Thanks for the lesson pnuts! | |
| May 29, 2017 at 19:30 | comment | added | stormy | Diane, I am still not sure with water hyacinth. I've got Sharon's pictures posted on other sites (esp. weed cop sites) because this guy is growing on land not floating in water. This has been quite the energizer on our site...thank you! | |
| May 29, 2017 at 18:50 | history | edited | stormy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 29, 2017 at 18:12 | history | edited | stormy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 29, 2017 at 17:58 | comment | added | stormy | Well, heck, @pnuts. Water hyacinths looks like the correct answer. Has someone answered with that? I am confused. Make it an answer. I went out to look and my goodness sure looks like water hyacinth to me! Were you talking with Sue in chat? Hey good job...was it Sue or you, pnuts? Hey and this one scores big points! | |
| May 29, 2017 at 2:48 | comment | added | Diane | @ stormy- Hope your headache gets better! I asked her. I'm sure that she will get back to me about that. I did share this site with her tonight, so she that she can hopefully see this post, and read the comments. (I don't know how that works if people are not members.) They did get storms there last night, and I wonder how that will affect the flowering. I am starting to wonder if it might work better to search this one out by the leaves and stems, rather than the tiny flower. I am am wondering if the plant has always been there, but only happened to noticeably flower at this time. | |
| May 28, 2017 at 23:12 | comment | added | stormy | @Diane So no one has given an answer yet...hey, I've got a major headache (only way my OCD can be regulated) looking for this plant! How funny. My question was if that hard packed little blue nub of a flower has changed at all?? | |
| May 28, 2017 at 22:46 | comment | added | Diane | @ stormy- lol I will ask her! I also OCD things like this. She will be so happy if someone knows what it is! She absolutely loved it when I told her that one of her photos from this site came up on an internet search. She said "If they can't find out what it is, I'll claim it as a new species and name it a 'Blue Shari Lou' ". I am hoping that there is a way to give Sharon McGeein photo credit. She is thrilled that her tiny flower is famous! ;) | |
| May 28, 2017 at 18:31 | comment | added | stormy | I am OCDing this ID, grins. Has this flower changed at all since this picture? Like opened up? | |
| May 28, 2017 at 4:35 | comment | added | stormy | That is where I went, into the marshes. I think you've done well, Diane. We'll be back tomorrow, someone will nail this ID with what you've given! I've been looking at Speedwell and...interesting project. | |
| May 28, 2017 at 3:24 | comment | added | Diane | @stormy- Thank you for your kind response. I told Sharon that we needed a size reference, and I was pretty floored by the flower size, too! She also informed me a little while ago that it mostly grows in the moister areas of the meadow that do not drain as quickly as the rest because they are lower lying. It's in full sun, and not near the tree line. Stormy- I would like to add the above info to my post, if you think it is useful for ID. But, I am leery of scrambling up my post again by trying. If you think that it is relevant, I wonder if you you can edit my post and add the above info? | |
| May 28, 2017 at 2:00 | comment | added | stormy | My goodness adding the ruler into this picture just floors me. Unbelievably tiny....such a great example to ask for scale! wow! | |
| May 27, 2017 at 0:54 | comment | added | Diane | @stormy- lol I voted hers up to negate the down vote (which was not done by me). Even if I don't feel that either ID is correct, I appreciate people trying. And, it gives us things to maybe rule out. I will ask her for better pics, since people are doubting about the leaves, bulbs, etc. I'm also voting yours up. | |
| May 27, 2017 at 0:27 | comment | added | Diane | It is definitally not a grape hyacinth! I have them in my gardens in VA. I was pretty specific in the info provided. I will ask her for a close up pic. | |
| May 26, 2017 at 23:52 | comment | added | stormy | There are at least 2 different plants in that picture. I didn't put much credibility in 'not a bulb'. My problem was scale. You know, looking at other sites off SE, when someone asks a question they've got a mini questionaire...to help ask questions before submitting a question...such as what zone one lives in, how to provide a picture and please provide scale in your picture. We really need that. I am wrong and Bamboo is right and she got down voted? Truly down voting needs to give some explanation so that 'trolls' don't spend their own votes down voting others. I mean...Bamboo? | |
| May 26, 2017 at 23:42 | comment | added | Sue Saddest Farewell TGO GL | Hi stormy! I don't know what flower this is, of course, but Diane said it was not a bulb. That would mean it's not a hyacinth, right? | |
| May 26, 2017 at 21:34 | comment | added | Bamboo | Unless my sense of perspective is shot, no way is this a hyacinth, its way too small.... | |
| May 26, 2017 at 20:16 | comment | added | stormy | There are other plants that perhaps she thought these flowers belonged to...I am never certain IDing stuff by pictures. Just could not imagine another flower like this at this time of year and if you look closely the proper leaves for hyacinth are there... | |
| May 26, 2017 at 20:09 | history | answered | stormy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |