Plant Identification

This one grows where I planted Calandrinia seeds. This is actually its third year in the garden and looks like it might bloom. Sorry, in a way, about the rain drops in the picture. Fran

Frances Howey
London,Ontario, Canada
Zone 5b

I went to weed my original rather weedy and hot sunny rock garden and found this mystery plant which seems to be all white. What do I have here?

I bought this plant as simply "jasmine" but it's like no other jasmine I've seen. This one is fairly small with a woody stem from which leaves (about an inch and a half long and three quarters of an inch wide in the middle) grow on sprays (panicles?) from which the three quarter inch purple with white picotee edge flowers grow in turn from their own small sprays. The leaves are opposite and moderately serrate and it has a lovely but not heavy fragrance. Looks a bit like a miniature wisteria.

This Penstemon has been found as a garden escape in Norway recently. Anybody who knows which one it is?

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Last year at a NARGS New England Chapter seedling sale, I bought a plant labeled as Zigadenus elwesii. Researching the name, it doesn't appear there is such a combination as Zigadenus "elwesii", so I'm left wondering which Zig species I actually have. The Flora of North America has 14 species, but since the genus includes species from Mexico & Central America, as well as in Japan, China, Siberia and Mongolia, I'm not sure I'll be able to arrive at an ID.

I received this one (AGS seed) as Panax trifolius, but it's beginning to look very much like Aralia nudicaulis which I have elsewhere (dark leaved plant in the foreground). It hasn't flowered. The picture is from last year and this year it's begun spreading vegetatively quite vigorously. Can the leaves easily be told apart?

Seed for this cactus came to me as Echinocereus triglochidiatus (sp?). I was expecting a red flower but it turned out yellow - pretty but not what I wanted. I note there are many different species of Echinocereus. Can you tell from the picture which one it is? Perfectly hardy here. Thanks. Fran

Frances Howey
London, Ontario, Canada
Zone 5b

Can anyone identify this iris? For over 10 years, it has been blooming in the grass, in a field just outside the garden proper. It blooms at the same time as Iris versicolor (but in a spot slightly dryer and shadier than where versicolor grows). It is about 4 inches tall. The number of plants has not increased or decreased over the years (always about 10 plants/blooms).

Got seed for A. narcissiflorum from the 2009/2010 exchange, started them last spring, and the small plants are now blooming. However, they don't look much like the photos of the species that I've found, which typically feature clusters of fewer but much larger flowers. Any idea what it is I'm growing?

I took this photo two weeks ago but am unable to identify it. Lost marker! Thanks.