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Title: Plant ID
Post by: duck on November 13, 2012, 08:15:26 PM
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oil9yrjb3oppqs0/IMG951249.jpg (https://www.dropbox.com/s/oil9yrjb3oppqs0/IMG951249.jpg)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7y8fjqtd7f2zju/IMG955520.jpg (https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7y8fjqtd7f2zju/IMG955520.jpg)

any ideas? not loosestrife, moist soil compartment, blooming now, SE Texas.
Title: Re: Plant ID
Post by: Vance G on November 13, 2012, 08:22:34 PM
I grow A variety of that in one of my flowere gardens!  It looks like a mint til it blooms but the flower is not right.  I feel so frustrated that I cannot remember the name! 
Title: Re: Plant ID
Post by: duck on November 13, 2012, 09:54:47 PM
It sure resembles spearmint right before the bloom doesnt it? Except for the inflorescence is way too long.
Title: Re: Plant ID
Post by: duck on November 13, 2012, 10:30:04 PM
http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio406d/images/pics/bor/heliotropium_indicum.htm (http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio406d/images/pics/bor/heliotropium_indicum.htm)

have an answer..
Title: Re: Plant ID
Post by: Bee Curious on November 13, 2012, 10:55:08 PM
I think we have a winner! X:X
Title: Re: Plant ID
Post by: Vance G on November 15, 2012, 11:14:44 AM
I don't know the leaves are a little different.  Does your plant have a square stem?  The borage pictured does not look like it does.  So very many varietals too.  Glad my life doesn't depend on eating it.