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Tom N
Citizen
Username: Tjn
Post Number: 126
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 3:52 pm: | 
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This lone plant sprung up in one the beds that has been a work in progress since last year. I was ready to pull it as a weed when I noticed it was beginning to bud and it has since produced about a dozen flowers. It's hard to tell the size from the photo but it's about 18" high and the flowers are about 1 1/2" across. I can't remember planting anything that looks like this and since there is only one, it's seems unlikely it's a weed.
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Joanne G
Citizen
Username: Joanne
Post Number: 198
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 4:21 pm: |
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Definition of a weed is anything you didn't palnt or don't want where it grows 
Is it a creeper? It looks a bit like what we'd call a potato vine except there are more flowers in the cluster and they're not quite as blue as here. Definitely a pernicious weed here.
Hope it brings pleasure and wonder to you and to your garden! |
Katharine McCormick
Citizen
Username: Katiemcc
Post Number: 7
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 4:36 pm: |
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Looks like a clover flower to me. The white ones are the most common, but they come in other varieties.
A quick google got me this picture:
http://www.tiger-photographic.com/clover_flower01.htm
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Joanne G
Citizen
Username: Joanne
Post Number: 200
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 4:39 pm: |
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Kathy, your clover leaves are very different from ours then - ours are rounded and a softer green the leaves in the pic above are long, dark, glossy and pointy. Still clover? |
Bajou
Citizen
Username: Bajou
Post Number: 581
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 10:54 pm: |
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Yep it's a clover |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8008
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 11:49 am: |
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As a kid, I used to pick all the clover flower "weeds" out of the lawn & tie them into necklaces for my mom. Do kids still do that?
Dandelions didn't work; stalks too thick. |
Tom N
Citizen
Username: Tjn
Post Number: 127
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 9:39 pm: |
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I guess I was so used to the small white clover that is only a few inches high that I didn't realize there is other kinds that grow to be this this tall & large. |
tjohn
Supporter
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 4364
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 10:00 pm: |
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Red clover.
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=TRPR2
Newcomb's Wildflower Guide - there is no substitute. |
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