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Caulanthus crassicaulis |
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| | In the summer of its first year, it just makes its rosette |
Wild mustard relative of the western United States. To be fair, it has limited ornamental value, with small creamy flowers held along a single stalk that shoots up from a small rosette of spoon-shaped bluish-green leaves. But in my quest to grow any plant that I manage to raise from seed to maturity, I was glad to get exactly one of last year's seedlings through the winter, in one of our hypertufa troughs. It bloomed in its curious fashion by the middle of May in its second year. Up close inspection reveals that the flowerbuds are in fact burgundy, but covered in white hairs which produce the overall grayish appearance. The buds proceed to open from the bottom up, to reveal tiny bicolored petals. Not a stunner by any means, but very much in the interesting to watch class of plants.
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| | Showing various stages of bud opening |
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| | Up close and personal |
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This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away... About my plant portraits
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- Seed from NARGS '11/'12 exchange, cold-stored through summer. Baggy 70F (50%G, 11-51d)
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