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hibbing

(10,401 posts) Sat Jul 18, 2015, 12:14 AM Jul 2015

Plant Identification Help

Hi,
If anyone has a clue it would be most appreciated. I live in the midwest and I bought this plant. It is a perennial. Last year it just had the funky foilage. The leaves are quite large at about 15 inches long an 4 inches wide. This year it took off with a spike of about 7 feet tall with all kinds of buds. It eventually fell over, I will need to stake it next year, but it is blooming while bent. (Blooming While Bent is one of my favorite Beatles songs)

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Plant Identification Help (Original Post) hibbing Jul 2015 OP

My bet is Gray-headed Coneflower (Rudbeckia pinnata, also known as Ratibida pinnata) enough Jul 2015 #1

It looks like it is in the sunflower family. Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #2

Compass Plant Botany Jul 2015 #3

Ahhh...hah! hibbing Jul 2015 #4

True to your name, thanks! (nt) enough Jul 2015 #5

enough

(13,449 posts)

1. My bet is Gray-headed Coneflower (Rudbeckia pinnata, also known as Ratibida pinnata)

Reply to hibbing (Original post)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 06:53 AM

Jul 2015

https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/gray-headed-coneflower

But there's so much variation in Coneflowers, that the ID could depend on exactly where you live.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

2. It looks like it is in the sunflower family.

Reply to hibbing (Original post)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 11:48 AM

Jul 2015

This is a large group of flowers, including black eyed susans (rudbeckia) and blanket flowers (gaillardia) as well as the more commonly known sunflower. I have rudbeckia and the ones that I have are biennial. The first year, it is just foliage, and the second year it flowers. It produces a lot of seeds and keeps spreading so that I have flowers every year.

Botany

(72,351 posts)

3. Compass Plant

Reply to hibbing (Original post)

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 03:14 AM

Jul 2015

Last edited Mon Jul 20, 2015, 10:49 AM - Edit history (2)

Silphium laciniatum

Plant some big bluestem or indian grass around it to hold up the flower .....
you can also cut the flower stalk so it doesn't get too tall.

It is called compass plant because the leaves will go north and south in order
that the leaf tissue gets less sun light and this saves H2O. Birds (finches)
love the seed.

hibbing

(10,401 posts)

4. Ahhh...hah!

Reply to Botany (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 08:48 AM

Jul 2015

That is it, thanks a lot!

Peace

enough

(13,449 posts)

5. True to your name, thanks! (nt)

Reply to Botany (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 22, 2015, 08:34 AM

Jul 2015

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