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The photos remind me of the Ruellia drummondiana that Tina has featured on her blog - so maybe some kind of wild ruellia? My Gardener Says Blog - Ruellia-drummondiana

Some sort of a jasmine comes to mind ....

Thanks for the suggestions. I am pretty certain it is not a ruellia, but the spent blooms do look like some sort of jasmine. Guess I have to wait for new blooms to help with the identification.

Molly

If you don't want to wait try posting your picture on: http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/namegal/ as suggested above.

It's probably me who doesn't want to wait ... :-)

Those folks at the Gardenweb "Name that Plant" site are AMAZING (and fast!) I take advantage of that website a lot.

Yes, I will post on "name that plant"! Thanks to all.

Molly

Plantain?

I decided to dig up and discard the unknown plant. I doubt that it is something that would be a "must have" in my garden.

Thank you all for your input!

Molly

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/4176453/what-is-this?

Dan, thank you. I'm kind of surprised as I don't think of ruellia as having a stiff, thick leaf, but the photo HERE shows the same remains of the flower.

Nice catch about the flower remains, Ragna. I *think* I actually have the same plant, which is why I posted it. Though mine hasn't showed any flowers. They self-seed prodigiously, so it probably isn't going away for the OP, and I understand when you pull it up, you often leave behind an active root. It's pretty and native, but formally invasive.

It has a cupped leaf very much like my dwarf lime plants at my last house. But they never got going before the "next freeze" so I never saw blooms or the remnants to know if they looked like this or not. If you crumple a leaf, they will have a lime-y smell though.