Topic: Mystery Plant

[Monika]

Can anyone identify this plant please?

It is a perennial and has clumped up at the bottom.

The leaves are about one and a half inches long with rounded ends.

It is approximately 15 to 18 inches high.

The flower buds are very flat (disc-like) likewise - the flowers are fairly flat too

[Palustris]

?Catananche caerulea.  Could you show us the leaves as well please.

[Monika]

Hi Palustris.

Thanks -  but I've 'Googled' your suggestion and am disappointed to tell you that it isn't that. 

Catananche caerulea's buds look like those of cornflowers but this plant's buds are round and flat like buttons.

Have been out and snapped this - so - hope it helps.

[Gadfium]

Scabious  ???

[Monika]

I think you may well be right about the scabious.

It's not one that I'm familiar with but the more I look at it the more I think it is some form of that plant.

This is the other one I have which is instantly recognisable, but the flower petals are much different.



Until someone says otherwise, I will think of it as Scabious.

Thanks.

[Palustris]

Certainly not Scabiosa caucasica which is the normal one. It could be one called S. graminifolia but I have not got a really clear picture of that one. It is too tall for S, columbiara and that one has darker leaves. I wonder if it is perhaps a Jasione? They are members of the Scabious family, but the only one I know is a tiny British native, but there are cultovated ones.

[Monika]

Hooray!

Thanks to you 'Palustris' I now know what this plant is.

It is called Jasione Montana' or Sheep's bit.


http://www.floralimages.co.uk/pjasiomonta.htm

Many thanks, indeed.

[Hawkweed]

There you are Monika, I said you'd get your answer here.  :)
There are some very knowledgeable and helpful people here.