Wildflowers/plants for ID

chrishorak · #1 (**permalink**) 13-09-2008, 09:30 PM

I would appreciate some help with IDs for these:

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3.

This looks very similar to a honeysuckle I have in the garden, but it was growing in the woods.

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5.

The flower looks similar to a previous Lobelia flower I posted, but the leaves look different. Is it just a different type of Lobelia or is it something else?

Hedge Witch · #2 (**permalink**) 13-09-2008, 09:34 PM

I think 3. is Lonicera periclymenum.
I think you are correct, 5. is a variety of lobelia.

agrumpycow · #3 (**permalink**) 13-09-2008, 09:41 PM

I think 2 is a goldenrod

Hedge Witch · #4 (**permalink**) 13-09-2008, 09:49 PM

1. may be Equisetum arvense.

4. could be white wood aster, Aster divaricatus

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aeshna5 · #5 (**permalink**) 14-09-2008, 04:49 AM

2 Canadian Golden-rod, Solidago canadensis
3 Honeysuckle, Lonicera periclymenum
4 Michaelmas Daisy, Aster sp- these need careful keying out, so need to have specimen to do this for positive ID, though A. x salignus is generally commonest naturalised one, but there are a few others.
5 Cultivar of Lobelia erinus

chrishorak · #6 (**permalink**) 14-09-2008, 09:05 AM

Thanks for all the replies.

Looking up Equisetum arvense, I think you are definitely correct with this one. Very unusual and not something I had seen before.

Michaelmas Daisy, Aster sp is good enough for me. Give it a few years and then maybe I will be trying to figure out exact types.