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unknown flower in a jiffy pellet

by Chuck
(Depoe Bay, OR)

We found this plant in a margin along side the road. We put it in a jiffy pellet to see if it would root. The plant hasn't rooted yet, but, the plant hasn't died and it has produced the flower in the picture.

Unfortunately, we don't know if it is an annual or what and the name. It appears to be a ground cover, but, not sure. It is growing in Depoe Bay, Oregon a couple of blocks from the ocean. It was growing in full sun.

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unknown flower in a jiffy pellet

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Unknown flower in jiffy pot
by: Don



Be patient it will root itself. It is a petunia and sometimes is self seeded by nature or a bird does it . I live in Maine and have had several come back for many years and when they get going nothing will stop them. I call them wild petunias but what they are is the hybrid droping seed and they revert back to their original state. Although they will have a smaller flower they will come back in many color shades
year after year. The fragrance is quite nice too.
unknown flower in a jiffy pellet
by: Anonymous

Hi Chuck,
The flower you found is a Eustoma grandiflora,formerly called Lisianthus,sorry I don't know the exact variety.
Gentian?
by: Connie

some sort of gentian maybe?
Unknown Flower in a Jiffy Pellet
by: fennydendron

Hi,
this plant is a Eustoma grandiflora,formerly known as Lisianthus grandiflora.It is an annual and grows to about 18 inches tall.
It doesn't seem to be a petunia
by: Anonymous

It is quite a small flower. There was only one. You can tell the size of the flower by the size of a jiffy pellet.
Petunia
by: Moni

My guess is that it may be a petunnia some one had thrown out and it seeded near the road. Wave petunias especially as well as some of the others reseed rather well.
Were there a lot of these or just the one plant?
Specie petunia
by: Anonymous

This looks like a specie petunia.

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