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08-08-2014, 03:25 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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Wow I love that big tall plant
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08-08-2014, 10:57 PM
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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 I spotted one lobelia in one of the spots I put the seedlings...it was forming buds, I sort of thought it was the cardinal flower, but I'll know more as it gets older/bigger. Today, I actually got Jeff to walk with me a reservoir about half an hour from here. We had time to kill before a movie (we've only gone twice in all the time we've been together--and that was all in the past two years since they know have glasses that project the captions on the screen for the viewer). Anyway, it was great that there was no humidity...and, as we got close to the water, I spotted some cardinal flowers blooming through the trees...once we got around the bend, I got a great view of them along a "sand bar' or whatever you'd call that. I'm hoping I can get back there to collect some seed, so I'd have the local ecotype.
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08-08-2014, 11:00 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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I discovered tick trefoil after moving to NE PA...I'd love to get it established on our property.
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08-08-2014, 11:01 PM
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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I also have what looks like a lobelia with really tiny flowers.
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08-08-2014, 11:02 PM
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Does that mean you can get a title change? ...I can't even remember the story behind that...care to share?
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08-08-2014, 11:08 PM
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Speaking of Silphium...here is my cup plant in bloom:
 I'm actually happy that mine is no more than about 6 feet in height. I bet if it were in a more moist area, it would be taller. I kind of like it this height.
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08-08-2014, 11:16 PM
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Here's a better photo...
 ...but I still can't find a good one showing its height (or lack there of).
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08-09-2014, 06:28 AM
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Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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08-09-2014, 06:29 AM
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Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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The original abused plant has never gotten taller than six feet or so and the flowers are smaller, even though it is the same species planted only a few feet away from the giant.
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08-09-2014, 10:51 AM
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Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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I have a bunch of silphium that appear to be prairie dock, S. Terebinthinaceum, which was in the seed mix I planted there. However, the basal leaves are more like 8-12 inches than the 12-18 inches my book says they should be. I suspect it is because of abuse and neglect - I have it in my roadside bed, in hard pan clay, getting water only when it rains and sun in the morning but not afternoon.
Have the rest of you seen dwarfing like this in silphiums, or should I be looking further into its identification? I don't have photos on my iPad, which is what I am typing on right now, but it has a basal rosette, and not that many leaves on the tall stalks, which have single flowers at the top, so I am pretty sure I am right.
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