Thanks everyone for your suggestions. That makes three folks (including the
comment on the blog) that believe it to be a Lespedeza, and indeed the
flower is similar. I'll look more into that genus.
Quite right about the location. We are in Frederick county Maryland, zone
6, about 20 min South o
Julia, I believe Steve found the genus for you. Here is a picture posted on the
internet as lespedeza condensata. It looks similar to your flower.
http://www.k-state.edu/fergusonlab/lespedeza.jpg
peter
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Julia,
Just a first impression, very off hand, but looks like Lespedeza to me,
maybe L. cuneata if it occurs in your area, but I'm far more confident of
the genus than the species. There are lots of them, tall, creeping,
slender, bushy, etc. and as with orchids the taxonomists have been
splitt
At 09:13 AM 8/31/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I have an attractive looking weed I'd like to identify. Photos are posted
>on my blog. Anyone know what this thing is?
>
>http://sapphirechild.blogspot.com/
>
>Thanks,
>Julia
Hi Julia,
your general geographic location might help folks n
Hi everyone,
I have an attractive looking weed I'd like to identify. Photos are posted
on my blog. Anyone know what this thing is?
http://sapphirechild.blogspot.com/
Thanks,
Julia
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