Plant Ids please

18 years ago

Here are nome NOIDs in my yard.

See how long the leaves are...when I first got this plant it had a nice flower...I got it at a swap but have no idea what it is...maybe crinium? What do I do about the leaves? the length is making them twist and rip.

Here's another view of the same plant....no sign of another flower.

The next four pictures are of two plants. It's weird because the flowers look the same but the leaves are different. I have no idea what they are but they are pretty. and I have volunteers of the top one all over the yard.

Here's the second plant....notice the different leaves...but hte flowers look like the first set.

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Comments (6)

bihai
18 years ago
The first one is a crinum, I have the same one. Mine gets very pretty deep rose pink flowers, but like you, I don't appreciate the weird leaves! I like the stiffer-leaved crinums that stay neater!
minibim
18 years ago
The 2nd one looks like some kind of Eupatorium, a snakeroot. Many are native to the S.E. and will pop up wild, because the seeds are airborne. The bees and butterflies love it.

The 3rd is probably related, different genus but same aster family.
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manature
18 years ago
The other plants are ageratums of some sort, I think. The last one looks to me like Gregg's Mistflower or Texas Ageratum, eupatorium greggii which I believe is a Texas native plant that is being sold here for butterfly gardens and the like.

Marcia
nytrinigemini
Original Author
18 years ago
You guys Rock..

Bihai I think we have the same plant....probably from the same people? My flower is a really nice deep rose also. The leaves are just really weird...I was wondering if I should dig it up and maybe plant it in a tall pot so the leaves hang down?

I think manature and minibim are correct on the other two plants also. They are very pretty and I do always see buzzing around them :-)
bihai
18 years ago
I got the crinums I have from a friend locally about 5 years ago. She lives in Newberry, up here by me. But, I had one of the same ones at my old house that the previous owners had planted. Same long long leaves. It doesn;t seem to be a light issue, mine are in full sun and its not like they are "reaching" for light, I guess its just normal for that particular one. She thought it was "Ellen Bouquisant" but she wasn't certain, and I am not either.

The most common crinum planted out up here by far is the "Milk and Honey", the pink/white striped one. I understand that its an "heirloom pass-along" variety around this part of FL.

I juts finished taking 4 huge Crinum xanthophyllum out of the greenhouse and planting them out. They are the ones that get the yellow leaves in full sun

I think it might look cool in a pot with the leaves pendant!
minibim
18 years ago
I have the "Milk and Honey", mine are from original plants my parents had from this house since 1958.

Around here you don't seem to see them much anymore, commercially all they plant are the C. asiaticum and the one with the bronze kinda color leaf.

I like the Milk and Honey, probably moreso for sentimental reasons. My father and I would catch chameleons(green anoles) in the centers, when I was little!