stonecrop?

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  1. Annette

    Annette Seedling

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    i've had this in my garden for a few years..it's pretty compact, maybe six inches tall and pink/white flowers when in bloom. the stems are rather stiff and the leaves are green & white. is this a kind of stonecrop? (sorry if the pic is not good..am experimenting with my brother's camera.)
     
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  2. Palustris

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    Cannot see the leaves clearly enough to give an id, but it is not a Sedum (if that is what you mean by Stonecrop) with that kind of flower arrangement.
     
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    I agree with Palustris--the leaves don't look like stonecrop (a sedum). The flowers look a bit like foam flower (tiarella), but the leaves, not so much, so I guess I don't know.
     
  4. Annette

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    will try to get a better picture, it is starting to go to seed,(very early bloomer).
     



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  5. carolyn

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    Actually the "over exposed" plant looks like a weed to me, called shepherd's purse. the one on the right, is that the one you are asking about? that looks like a succulent to me. I just can't think what it is called right now, but at the most bizarre moment it will pop in my head. :rolleyes: Give me time...or someone else will get to it before me, anyway. I have it growing on my rock wall and it roots readily wherever it is dropped or tucked.
     
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    the one on the right is a type of sedum....it's the over-exposed one...the leave are circular, green with a white 'stripe'. the bottom leaves are pointy. it gets little pinkish/white flowers when it blooms. i'll look in my wildflower book for shepard's purse & see if that matches up..(did a search for shepard's purse, definitely not that, leaves are all wrong, and not the same flower)
     
  7. Annette

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    ok, round 2...hope these pictures are better, thanks for any help.... :?:

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    mystery plant - 2 ( photo / image / picture from Annette's Garden )
     
  8. Netty

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    It really looks like Poor Mans Pepper to me...Lepidium virginicum.
     
  9. Annette

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    thanks, netty....that looks like the answer!....i could swear when i bought it, the tag said stonecrop, but they may have been wrong.
     

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