A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Plants and Flowers Forum Mystery Plants? who/what am i?

so, this little guy (he isn't more than 6 inches tall) has bloomed at the end of my walkway. i know i tried to plant some seed there before, and i had a bag of birdseed spill (you can still see it there it's too heavy for me to pick up, still full) so i have no clue who/what he is. he has 3 buddies that have poked their heads up, but he took the best picture. his bloom has lasted more than 2 weeks.



help!

the flower puts me in mind of a ganzia but not the leaves

i know what you mean. it isn't very big, slightly larger and a silver dollar (for those old enough to remember those) and since i have dandelions not far from it, i KNOW it isn't that! but it is just too cute to pull up and call a weed.

it's really bugging me I know I know that flower it just can't put my finger on it,,! I keep coming back here and looking at it,, could it be a mini sunflower??

i don't think so because it isn't drying up into a sunflower type seed head.

yep this looks like it~ also known as the canyon sunflower

http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/684.htm

i think you are right diane. now, how'd he get there? i'm glad i didn't call him a "weed" i'll try to save seeds. and was it you or cindy who wanted the mexican hat seeds? i have them, i can't remember who i promised them too

I think it looks like a little sunflower also.

How long has that bird seed been there?

You sent me some seeds a couple of years ago,, they only bloomed the first year . I have no idea what happened, because they grow wild here along side roads,, I get plants growing here I didn't plant either.. Birds? wind? Bringing the seeds in,, could have been out of that bag of seeds too

I have some sunflowers - they grew for a few years up against the curb - I thought they were tree saplings and kept hawking them out.

Last year I let them grow . . . I was delighted with sprays of lovely yellow flowers.

I checked out the pic link. Isn't that just a fancy smancy little flower...."No Common Name."

P. S. I use to have all kinds of 'fun' things come up under a bird feeder.

My giant 'mystery plant' that turned out to be a Common Evening Primrose with pretty little yellow flowers all over it use to be considered a 'weed' by my neighbor. He said he would weedwhack them all the time. He never left them alone long enough to see them bloom. Fortunately, this year that 'weed' started coming up just barely on my side of the ditch so he didn't mess with it. My curiousity kept me from mowing it down. I'm glad I did that. It's so pretty. It's HUGE now and just busting all out with the prettiest little yellow flowers.