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Sunday, August 26. 2012

Name that plant - updated with answer

A tall purple shrub-like perennial, blooms Aug-Sept:



I added my answer below the fold -


 

I believe that is Salvia leucantha - Mexican Bush Sage.  Tough plant. Great late-summer bloomer. I took that pic on Cape Cod.
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Butterfly bush, what did I win?
#1 up late on 2012-08-26 05:12 (Reply)
Chaste tree - agnes castus vitex I think is the scientific name, which I probably spelled incorrectly. In Georgia, it blooms all summer and is maintenance free. Attracts a LOT of bees though.
#1.1 Sharon Liggett (Link) on 2012-08-26 07:32 (Reply)
Vitex agnus-castus would be correct. It is a smelly thing if you bruise the leaves, or break the branches.
#1.1.1 tennesseered on 2012-08-26 07:39 (Reply)
Russian Sage?
#2 Bruce Macdonald on 2012-08-26 07:36 (Reply)
I hereby name this plant,

Juliette

Paddy
#3 Paddy on 2012-08-26 07:57 (Reply)
None correct thus far.
#4 BD on 2012-08-26 08:39 (Reply)
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/newsletters/hortupdate/2008/jun08/Vitex.jpg

I do believe that this is your chaste tree, aka Vitex agnus-castus. I am not a botanist, but I have owned several of these puppies. Please check your taxonomy.

red
#4.1 tennesseered on 2012-08-26 08:57 (Reply)
Budleia
#5 Ray on 2012-08-26 08:45 (Reply)
It looks like Laburnum, but I'm not sure which subspecies it is (the main species is yellow bloomed, but there is a purple variety).
#6 J.T. Wenting on 2012-08-26 08:51 (Reply)
Culver's Root. Veronica is the other name for it.
#7 Shane on 2012-08-26 08:58 (Reply)
Purple Lupine?
#8 DCE (Link) on 2012-08-26 09:17 (Reply)
Vitex
#9 sbj on 2012-08-26 10:06 (Reply)
My wife and I visited the largest nursery in Connecticut once. They had a thriving mail order business with a slick glossy catalog and shipped all over. The place was huge - must have been more than 20 acres. There was a ground cover everywhere - pretty pink and red flowers. We asked and nobody knew what it was.
#10 Roy Lofquist on 2012-08-26 13:30 (Reply)
Looks like purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria). Although there is a lot of it here in Sioux Falls, it is illegal to plant, I believe.
#11 Archer2010 on 2012-08-26 15:22 (Reply)
Does it smell pretty, too?
#12 Jewel (Link) on 2012-08-26 15:31 (Reply)
Flowering pot bush
#13 Mn Jack on 2012-08-26 15:59 (Reply)
Sorry, boss. That's not salvia. The leaves are the wrong shape.
#14 Shane on 2012-08-26 20:40 (Reply)
Got to agree with Shane. Notice conical shape of flower, which is different from Mexican Sage Bush flowers. I still say chaste tree.
#14.1 Sharon (Link) on 2012-08-26 21:04 (Reply)
Now i'm seeking for both blogs and forums supply third party, well balanced criticism with all complications and / or blogs and forums who have a fabulous open-handed and / or left-wing slant. Thank you very much..
#15 Lisanti (Link) on 2012-08-26 22:54 (Reply)
OK - I'll play. If I had the tech savvy - this would be a complete picture of our Butterfly Bush in Madison, WI at this very moment. We are just amazed at how this thing grew in year five in our front yard this summer - amid all the drought dilemma.

So I may not know the Latin name at the moment - but I will keep watching this post until I get my dear husband to show me how to send a picture of our own butterfly bush to share with your readers.
#16 kathteach on 2012-08-27 00:47 (Reply)
Plantus Purplus Horribulus
#17 lazlo on 2012-08-27 01:14 (Reply)
As I said, this is Salvia leucantha - Mexican Bush Sage
#18 Bird Dog on 2012-08-27 05:34 (Reply)
This is Mexican Bush Sage:

http://www.klru.org/ctg/images/plants/mexican_bush_sage.jpg

The flowers and leaves are not even close to being similar. Your original pic is of a Vitex. Case closed.

red
#18.1 tennesseered on 2012-08-27 08:32 (Reply)
Almost every flowering plant on earth has a purple form, or reverts to something purplish when inbred.

One often sees this with cheap packets of annuals in "mixed colors".

This prompted one horticulturalist to say that they had no trouble picturing the garden of Eden - everything in it was magenta or purple.
#19 Ben David on 2012-08-27 13:24 (Reply)

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