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Identify my plant please

Beginner14Beginner14 Posts: 7
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Hi,  I wonder if anybody can identify my newcomer for me? It is about 14 inches high and there are about 8 of them, grouped together, about 3 inches apart. The stems are red and quite tough and each leaf about 2 inches long and .5 inches wide. Flowers are small, white groups which narrow to a point. One to each stem.

Thanks.

 

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  • Joe_the_GardenerJoe_the_Gardener Posts: 876

    Lysimachia clethroides?

  • gardenninggrannygardenninggranny Posts: 803

    mmm - but clethroides curls at the tip.

    Its a bit like a white liatris if such a thing exists, and my purple ones are in flower right now.

  • Beginner14Beginner14 Posts: 7

    Hi Joe,

    Thanks.

    I have just looked up images of this plant and it doesn't seem to be the same. Lysimachia clethroides seems to be more of a bush, doesn't seem to have red stems and the flowers seem to "flop" over, where mine remain upright.

    What do you think?

  • Beginner14Beginner14 Posts: 7

    Hi Gran!!   Liatis spicata white does exist, but isn't like mine! Thanks

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    I think this is a lysimachia and most probably clethroides or a form of that.

    Note the left hand flower in the top picture, it's bent over.

    I've just been and looked at mine, they start straight and then bend over. The flowers and the alternate leaves up the stem are right as well

    L. clethroides is a herbaceous perennial, not a bush, whatever it look like in a picture



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • gardenninggrannygardenninggranny Posts: 803

    Just looked in Christopher |Brickell - could it be epilobium augustifolium - the white willow herb?   We're all familiar with the wild rose bay willow herb and it does look similar.  He describes it as "can spread rapidly".

  • GYPSY2GYPSY2 Posts: 2

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    Looking for someone to identify my plant...I live in Georgia US if that helpsimage
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  • GYPSY2GYPSY2 Posts: 2

    here is a picture of the leaf

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    The flowers are all wrong for a willowherb gg

     



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • gardenninggrannygardenninggranny Posts: 803

    but the picture in the RHS book looks just like that - just a suggestion

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