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Please help identify this plant (post #16046)

MaineQuaker on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 18:09
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I have been searching for over a year, asking anyone I could, what this plant is. It is perennial, growing 3-4 feet high. Foliage is similar to garden phlox, but the flowers resemble small, 1 1/2 inch, orchids. Can anyone help identify it, please?

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It's an Impatiens but I'm not (post #16046, reply #1 of 3)

by Karen in reply to MaineQuaker [original] on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 20:03

It's an Impatiens but I'm not sure which species, maybe I. delavayi or I. glandulifera. You can look through the photos here ( http://www.plantsystematics.org/taxpage/0/0/79/genus/Impatiens.html ) and see if you can confirm an identification.

North Carolina - zone 7

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I think it may be Schizanthus (post #16046, reply #2 of 3)

by the country gardener in reply to Karen [original] on Sun, 01/03/2010 - 13:49

I think it may be Schizanthus pinnatus, Poor Man's Orchid(edited later to say:) I googled it; I was wrong. Go with Karen's call above.

Marty

"The plants have been good to us."  Lester Hawkins

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It looks like it could be (post #16046, reply #3 of 3)

by southernsoil in reply to the country gardener [original] on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 19:02

It looks like it could be Impatiens balsamina. My nieghbor has many come up from seed. They are annuals that throw alot of seeds.