Help with identification

mtmickey · Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:38 am

I was given these flowers by someone and am not sure what they are. I'm thinking some type of heliopsis, but not sure what kind. Please help

This I have no idea, may even be a weed, but I cannot find anything like it anywhere else on the property.

Thanks for your help

Green Mantis · Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:43 pm

Not sure on the 1st one, but the second one looks like a marigold plant.

bullthistle · Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:19 pm

I don't beleive its a heliopsis unless it is a double, but it looks more like a dahlia.

mtmickey · Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:36 am

I didn't think dahlias got that big, or were perennials where I live...none of my dahlias have ever survived the winter. The yellow flower is over 6 feet tall.

Hadn't considered Marigold for the bottom one, I suppose that's possible. I'm going to try to get better pictures, these are so tiny (taken with my phone)

Thanks for your help

shadowsmom · Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:55 am

[img]https://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy236/allminemike/0607000703.jpg[/img]

[img]https://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy236/allminemike/downsized_0607000704.jpg[/img]

Do these leaves look like your yellow flower leaves? The yellow flowers in the photo do not go with the plant in question. The tall plant along the brick, when in bloom (now), has yellow pom-pom type flowers like the one in your photo. I have no idea what it is; it came with the house. I have tried to get rid of it a few times, but it always comes back.

mtmickey · Fri Aug 19, 2011 10:25 am

Shadowsmom, yes, that's what the leaves look like

!potatoes! · Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:58 pm

mtmickey, mighty that second one be elder?

mtmickey · Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:26 am

!potatoes! elder is a possibility, I will investigate that one a bit more.

shadylane · Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:55 pm

mtmickey your second picture is 'valeriana officialis' grows up over 5' with a umbrella cluster of perfumed white flowers. That is how they start out but change given in height. Sorry, I need to work on the sharing pictures to show you.

mtmickey · Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:36 am

shadylane...would love to see some of your pics. Here are the instructions for posting pics. I did look it up online and you may be right, I took better pics last night and will see if I can get them posted tonight...I have a few more things that need id too. Love the knowledge found here.

[url]https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3724[/url]

shadylane · Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:52 pm

hope this works out for you mtmickey, I would be more than happy to share my photos

These are the first stages of 'Valeriana Officialis'
The first appearance with a few leaves it then will become fuller.

[img]https://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/shadylane5acres/001.jpg[/img]

[img]https://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/shadylane5acres/003.jpg[/img]

You will notice a change in the leaves as they will not look like the first stage and later a thick stalk will grow upwards. Small cluster of buds form and they will bloom small but later bloom into a large umbrella form with a outstanding fragrance.

[img]https://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/shadylane5acres/valerianaofficinalis.jpg[/img]

[img]https://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/shadylane5acres/valerianaofficialisinfullbloom.jpg[/img]

mtmickey · Fri Sep 02, 2011 9:41 am

thanks for the pics shadylane...that sure looks like them, but how long do they take to proceed through growth? They have not grown much at all this summer, and I'm sure they are not going to get to flowering before winter hits us, we do have a pretty short growing season...another month or so and we will have frost.

shadylane · Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:05 am

Your welcome mtmickey, I wish I would have taken better steps in making a garden journal. That way I could give a sound ground answer to their growing lengths but the best I could do for you is to give you what I have observed here in zone 5. In early spring (mid month of May) you will notice the fern like growth. Come June they will develop the stalk and flower head. They seem to grow very rapid with a stalk appearing and their foliage changing. They bloom in mid summer for about two to three weeks and start to seed quickly.

Is it possiable that we are speaking of two different plants, for you should have seen results by now.
Found another full bloom picture of the 'Valeriana officialis', I do need to get organized. But in the back ground of the picture there are 'dames rocket' finished blooming and starting seed. So perhaps that will give you a time in early summer as when they bloom. Sorry that I could not be more of help to you.

[img]https://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/shadylane5acres/valerianaoffcommoninbloom.jpg[/img]

mtmickey · Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:21 am

Thanks for the pics shadylane. They sure look like the pics you posted, but did not ever produce blooms or flower. I finally pulled a bunch out yesterday, left one to see what it does. The seem to spread by pretty thick runner roots. Do you have any idea what the roots look like? Thanks for your help.

shadylane · Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:59 am

They are growing elsewhere on the property here and there,not close together. They spread by seed, I don't think they grow as runners, but may seem like that since they tend and known to over crowd other plants. I have not thought to pull any up, but as a herb the root can be harvested in fall and it's oils are used as a seditive for treating insomnia.. It may be that your plants have not yet established maturely to produce blooms. Next year you may see results.

mtmickey · Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:01 pm

Well, I left one to see what it would do next year. Went out yesterday to look at it and the deer have munched it to the ground (was redoing my flower bed and forgot to put the fencing back up). Maybe that's why they've never flowered...the deer keep them eaten...Well we'll just see what happens next year.

On another note, I talked to the person who gave me the tall yellow flowers and she says they are golden quelle...part of the sunflower family. Haven't had time to research it yet, but it wasn't a quick hit.

DoubleDogFarm · Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:15 pm

Take a look at this site. It maybe a perennial sunflower.
https://www.bigdipperfarm.com/cgi-bin/searchstuff.pl?Botanical=Helianthus

Eric

mtmickey · Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:31 pm

WOOHOO Finally figured it out. It's actually a type of double cone flower.
called rudbeckia laciniata hortensia golden glow

Here is one of the links I found while doing research. This was a tough one to track down.
https://plants.tcgardens.com/NetPS-Engine.asp?CCID=12080007&page=pdp&PID=5580

Thank you all for your help and suggestions.