My sister recently moved from Massachusetts to Panama City Beach, FL, and she had several of these flowering plants growing around in her lawn. They could possibly be weeds, but I thought they were so pretty, I moved them into her garden beds and took a couple of them up to Massachusetts with me. Panama City had a really cold/bad winter this year and all of these plants died in her garden. Unfortunately, I think I didn't give my plant enough light and or water when I brought them in during the winter and I almost lost mine too.

There were 2 flower color varieties, the one pictured and a completely yellow flowered one as well. The plant shoots out these runners in all directions up to a foot or more on a mature plant and the end of each runner can flower over and over again, so you can have dozens of these blooming at a time on a single plant. I hope someone can ID this. I want to know if it is a purchasable plant or just a very pretty weed.

Thanks,

Bob

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