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After a walk in the park, I decided I wanted names for the two different kinds of tiny purple flowers that are blooming right now. In both cases, they are very small flowers, and low to the ground. One is deep purple, the other pinker.
I got out my Audubon guide to eastern North American wildflowers, and found neither.
Googling around got me, in addition to some interesting though not immediately relevant advice on gardening with native plants, the idea that one of the two may be Lamium Purple dragon. These seem to like the edges of things--the spots next to paved paths, and around willow trees.
The ones I couldn't find at all (I may try getting some photos and posting them, see if they look familiar to anyone) are tiny dark purple flowers, on stems an inch or two high (3-5 cm). They seem to be happy mixed in with grasses.
There's also what's probably vervain in odd corners of the park lawns near us, but it's not what I was trying to identify.
I also saw a fine egret in the inlet, but the tide was in enough that it was having trouble finding a good place to fish.
I got out my Audubon guide to eastern North American wildflowers, and found neither.
Googling around got me, in addition to some interesting though not immediately relevant advice on gardening with native plants, the idea that one of the two may be Lamium Purple dragon. These seem to like the edges of things--the spots next to paved paths, and around willow trees.
The ones I couldn't find at all (I may try getting some photos and posting them, see if they look familiar to anyone) are tiny dark purple flowers, on stems an inch or two high (3-5 cm). They seem to be happy mixed in with grasses.
There's also what's probably vervain in odd corners of the park lawns near us, but it's not what I was trying to identify.
I also saw a fine egret in the inlet, but the tide was in enough that it was having trouble finding a good place to fish.
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