False Dragonhead Flower, June 18, 2019

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This is the request I sent out into the universe yesterday:

I should know what this is but can’t remember. If someone refreshes my memory, I’ll post the name.

And although Pat, Angloswiss, Ghostmmnc, Derrick and Slmret came to my aid (Thanks, all,) Bob at Love Will Bring Us Together seems to be the most thorough and persuasive in his identification, agreeing with Pat, Angloswiss and Slmret, and Derrick agrees with him.  Here is his solution to the flower mystery:

It’s definitely a member of the Lamiales Order of plants that includes all 3 you are deciding between, but Pat is right – it’s a member of the genus Physostegia probably P virginiana – False Dragonhead.
Foxgloves belong to genus Digitalis and they generally have their flowers on one ‘side’ of the stem. The flowers seem to have more of a wide open ‘mouth’ than the dragonheads.

The Physostegia flowers are evenly spread about the stem at 4 right angles to one another in cross-section.

What’s more, (I’m so proud,) I seem to have driven Bob to declaring himself the Robin Hood of plant identification. He went on to say:If you wish to avail yourself, i now have my ‘service’ up on my blog: 🙂


So let’s keep him busy and out of trouble. He’s taken care of
all of my identification woes for the past year and so now extends his generous offer out to the blogging world in general. Once again, thanks, Bob.

And, again, thanks to all of you who helped to solve the mystery.

For Cee’s FOTD.

13 thoughts on “False Dragonhead Flower, June 18, 2019”

  3. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

    It does look like foxglove or digitalis or obedient plant.. I can’t tell. Thanks for the suggestion. The minute you said that, I thought ‘You’re right!” but then I saw Angloswiss’s comment and it raised a question again.

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  6. BLob's avatarLwbut

    It’s definitely a member of the Lamiales Order of plants that includes all 3 you are deciding between, but Pat is right – it’s a member of the genus Physostegia probably P virginiana – False Dragonhead.

    Foxgloves belong to genus Digitalis and they generally have their flowers on one ‘side’ of the stem. The flowers seem to have more of a wide open ‘mouth’ than the dragonheads.

    The Physostegia flowers are evenly spread about the stem at 4 right angles to one another in cross-section.

    If you wish to avail yourself, i now have my ‘service’ up on my blog: 🙂

    My Flower Identification Service!

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