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General Category => Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Eric Hardy on May 20, 2020, 08:54:21 AM

Title: What’s this plant please?
Post by: Eric Hardy on May 20, 2020, 08:54:21 AM

Please can someone identify the garden plant for me. We have had it for years but it’s name escapes me. It is growing out of a joint in some steps and spreads like a mat over the steps.
Here it is in situ

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49910533736_150415cb9e_c.jpg)

And these two I tried to photograph like a specimen.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49913983391_022d921d9c_c.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49913792906_2430559f75_c.jpg)

Title: Re: What’s this plant please?
Post by: Palustris on May 20, 2020, 09:56:40 AM

Phuopsis stylosa at a guess.

Title: Re: What’s this plant please?
Post by: Eric Hardy on May 20, 2020, 12:32:24 PM

Thanks Eric.

Title: Re: What’s this plant please?
Post by: ideasguy on May 20, 2020, 01:48:55 PM

You are a genius Eric. I didn't know that plant beforehand. It was actually in the Ideas Genie Pro 6 (http://www.ideasgenie.co.uk) Master Database as a species and one cultivar -  Phuopsis stylosa 'Purpurea'.
Using that to google search, I found this website which gives a good description:
https://www.rushfields.com/plantguide/plant/perennial/phuopsis-stylosa-purpurea (https://www.rushfields.com/plantguide/plant/perennial/phuopsis-stylosa-purpurea)