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Here is a link that might be useful: Unknown Plant

I am sorry but for me your link did not work. I could not view the photo.
I would be no good to help ID it more than likely but you need to check to make sure your link is working so the others can see it.
And good luck getting it identified.
G.M.

Thanks Merryheart - I hope it is fixed now.

Well, I have no clue what it is.

If you don't get a good ID here on this forum, you might want to ask this question on the Great Lakes Forum. Someone there might be familiar with this plant.

Good luck.

I think it's an allium. They are also known as onion flower or something like that. They come in many varieties, most of them blue or purple or white, and the leaf varies as well. Some get very tall and have very large globe-shaped flowers. I have several different varieties in pots this spring because I didn't get them planted over winter. If that is what your photo is, they do well here as far as I know. I got mine from VanBourgondien. Here's a link with photos:

Here is a link that might be useful: Van Bourgondien alliums

It looks like some type of ground cover to me the way I am looking at that photo. Was the foliage sort of short? It looks rather familiar to me like I may have seen it before but it is not something which is typically grown in our area. I have a friend in PA and kids and grands in MI perhaps I have seen it up there before.

It reminds me a little of the plant we call wandering jew except on your plant the leaves appear to radiate out from a main stem and jew is of course more of a vining type plant. The flower part does look rather like allium but your plant sure has some unusual foliage if it is one.

I think Dawn's idea of posting that photo on a more Midwestern forum might be a good idea.

Let us know what you find out.
Oh and BTW that is lovely plant!
G.M.

I forwarded your photo to one of my Michigan friends (I hope that is okay)and she also thinks it is possibly some type of allium.
The only allium I have ever had was a type with leaves pretty much like day lilies and very large round purple flowers. It certainly has most unusual foliage...interesting looking. The foliage gives it almost an Asian look doesn't it?
G.M.

I did post it on Great Lakes but I have gotten better answers here. Yes, the foliage was beautiful, kind of glossy. It was planted very close but appeared to be on a stalk and then branching only toward the top. The flower was like a allium so I think it was from that family.

Okiegardner - It looked a lot like those blooms but not quite so full, but I bet you are right. Wish I could see the foliage better in the pictures because it was what I liked best. Thanks.

I think I found it. Okiegardener said what I was thinking Allium. I looked and looked and I think I found it exactly.

Blue Globe Onion, Blue Flowered Garlic, Azure Flowered Garlic (Allium caeruleum)

visit this page: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/61941/index.html

I linked to retailers offering this plant for sale. Brent and Becky's has some other photos that show the foilage a little better. There's one of the Allium with Peony that REALLY looks close to the foilage in your pic. The biggest difference I would guess is from the flash on your camera, which seems to me to have intensified the shininess (is that a word? LOL!)

Good Luck - this is fun.. got any more?

I agree with Courtney...I enjoy trying to ID things...It is FUN! lol.
I am searching...but check out this picture in the link below....so CLOSE to your plant's foliage! I found it in the site Courtney found. Brent and Becky's, and It is:
Genus Name: Agapanthus
Cultivar Name: Tinkerbell
Family: Liliaceae
Nickname: African Lily

G.M.

Here is a link that might be useful: Foliage

Other photos of Agapanthus on these sites...check out the links:
http://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=2189

http://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantimage.asp?plant_id=2189

http://www.plantsafari.com/Catalog2/Detail/00042.html

http://www.broadleighbulbs.co.uk/images/spring/agapanthus/agapraecoxvar.jpg

This entire site is all info on Agapanthus...looks to a great site--
http://www.agapanthus.info/uk/public/index.php?id=1

Good Luck! Let us know what you think okay?

G.M.

Wow, you are finding some nice plants. I wish I could say that I am sure about one of them, but I can't. It was planted very close together but it didn't branch out from the base like a daylilly does. It had leaves that were about 5 or six inches long and came off of the stalk. I don't know how far down the branches went. It was almost dark when I snapped the picture and I didn't stop to look at the plant from the side. I thought that I would be back in the same area again the next day, but I wasn't. Thanks so much for trying to help.

You Oklahoma gardeners are great. I posted on the Great Lakes forum and only one person responded and she said it was two plants and one was an onion. I'm not buying that story. I have lighten the picture so you could see the plant a bit better but it makes the color too light. It was a darker green with a white or creme varigation.

Here is a link that might be useful: Mystery Plant

Good grief. I KNOW I posted concerning your plant last night but I don't see it here...lol lol. I wonder if I posted it in another thread?

I wondered if you were near Lake Michigan when you discovered your plant? DH says it looks like plants he has seen in that area. He is from Michigan originally and his kids and grands still live there.

I have sent an email to my good friend in PA with a photo of your plant to see if it looks familiar to her and perhaps she can ID it. She is away on a trip at this time.

I still think it looks like some kind of grassy ground cover to me. The blooms are pretty insignificant compared to the lovely foliage. But the bloom does resemble Allium and some Agapanthus blooms. It is the foliage which is so hard to identify.

Have you thought of printing out the photo and taking it to a nursery to see if anyone can give you an ID?

I still have not given up hope to help you identify it.
G.M.

Merryheart- It was growing in Nauvoo Illinois just a few blocks from the Mississippi river. I found a "Name That Plant" forum last night and have posted on that. If that doesn't get results I am going to try something else.

Perhaps you will get results from posting on that forum. My friend is now back home from her trip but she is not as "into" gardening as I am....not sure if she will know the plant's name if they have it up there.
DH was pretty sure the plant is something he has seen growing near water...guess the river is close enough....haha.
Good luck.
G.M.

I am so excited to finally have something to tell you about your plant.....My step daughter who lives in Michigan finally called me today and she says it is not one plant but TWO. I had wondered several times if that could be the case. The flower is ALLIUM as several of the others have thought...but the foliage is a grass which grows prolifically all around the northern states. Kathy says it is almost like a weed up there....lol.
She called it variagated ribbon grass but that is the only name she knows for it. I looked up ribbon grass on the net and sure enough there is was!
I will send a link so you can see it for yourself.
So YIPPEE! This plant mystery is solved and I am so excited.
G.M.

Here is a link that might be useful: Ribbon Grass

2 cents from an ex-Okie: It looks like two plants to me also. The flower looks like some form of allium (onion family) my guess would be Society Garlic but there are hundreds of species that look alike. The ground cover looks like one of the variegated dwarf bamboos - Pleiobastus (I'm guessing on the spelling) or some other form of grass. I have the variegated ribbon grass and its leaves are much longer than the grass in the picture. I have a tropical grass sold around here as Basket Grass that kinda looks like whats in the photo but my dwarf bamboo looks more like it. When you first buy the variegated bamboo it has bold streaks of white on the leaves but after it spreads and tries to take over the world it shows less color and sometimes reverts to solid green.

I saw TriangleJohn's post and looked up dwarf bamboo...it is possible that is it as well....phooey. It would have been nice to find it to be a grass. If it is a bamboo there a lot of varieties...so the search goes on....lol. Look at all the photos in these links and see what you think. It really does have to be two different plants...and the flower has to be an allium..(or not? lol)

G.M.

http://cgi.ebay.com/114-Variegated-Dwarf-Bamboo-Houseplant-Ornamental-Grass_W0QQitemZ260065444561QQcmdZViewItem

http://www.jmbamboo.com/smalbo.htm

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:1107248}}

Merryheart - That bamboo looks exactly like it. Since there was only one bloom in the whole bed, I suppose it could have been a left over from a previous planting. $60 WOW. That is quite pricey, isn't it. Thank you so much. Carol

Now that you know what the plant is you will be able to watch for it off line. Who knows where it might show up? yes the $60 price is terrible but the EBay prices were not as bad.
Thanks to trianglejohn for finally identifying the plant. I was sure my step daughter had it until I saw his post and looked up the bamboo pics. I know nothing at all about bamboo.
It was fun to try to find the ID of your plant...unlike my mystery plant which we never did identify at all.
G.M.

Actually Merryheart... I have a tree in my backyard that has some new growth on it that look EXACTLY like the mystery plant. I have issues with my camera, more like issues with my teenage daughters TAKING my camera. I'll try to locate it this weekend and get a pic, or I can take off and scan it like you did. I'd like to get a pic of the whole tree for you to look at, maybe seeing the bark, and mature leaves would help to ID it. I have no idea what kind of tree it is. The area where it is growing used to be a fence line. The tree next to it had a 2 foot long piece of barbed wire fence in it, so I'm guessing it is from a seedling type that was either blown or carried by a bird to the fence line. This mystery will be solved (someday) :)))

Courtney

Courtney...if your tree is like the ones which come up in my yard it would be nice to finally learn what they are just out of curiosity. It might or might not be something anyone would want to keep. I keep seeing plants which are similar but upon closer look they are always different in one way or another. So I have almost...(but not quite) given up....lol.
If you ever get your camera to yourself post some photos...perhaps there is still hope of an ID.

G.M.