Another flower ID, please

mtmickey · Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:52 am

Something I must have planted last year and not sure what it is. Any help is appreciated.

This one I'm not sure about either...some have told me dahlia, but I'm still not convinced

Close up of the leaves

lorax · Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:02 pm

The first one screams Arnica at me; the second is closer to double cultivars of Tithonia.

mtmickey · Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:39 am

lorax, thank you, I think you are right about the arnica. I am trying to find pictures of double tithonia to compare, but am having difficulty. What I have read about them, though, they are an annual, and this is the second year this plant has come back.

cynthia_h · Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:37 pm

mtmickey wrote:....What I have read about them, though, they are an annual, and this is the second year this plant has come back.

Seed-prolific annuals can re-seed themselves and thus grow where they appeared previously. After all, a plant is only a seed's way of making more seeds.

Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9