Unknown flower

[Maggie]

Can someone identify this flower for me?

 

[RonsGarden]

I'm stumped!

 

[sunflower3]

Is it a PHLOX???

 

[Kya D]

lantana???

 

[Maggie]

No it's not either of those. Its a small patch with white, pink and purple blooms. They are in my sisters garden and she doesn't remember planting them and wanted to know if I knew what they were. It has to be some seed that were sown because of the different colors.

 

[Kya D]

Here are some choices
Duranta
Heliotrope
alyssum
or
candytuft

 

[Kya D]

I know I am stumped but just looking around on the net.

 

[Kya D]

Here's my LAST try
Pentas lanceolata

 

[RonsGarden]

Bing-bong!
While cutting the grass along the road I ran over a wildflower just like the one you posted Maggie!
We see then here along roadsides, in unused fields and even along the beach sand dunes! The come in white, blue/lavander and pink!
It is a wild phlox Phlox divaricata (Wild Blue Phlox, Woodland Phlox, Wild Sweet William)

 

[Crabbergirl]

See I knew Ron would figure this out! Thanks Ron! Now that you mention it id does have a Phlox apperance.

 

[RonsGarden]

The 4 petals threw me off!

 

[Maggie]

That's what threw me off to Ron. Thanks for the id. Now we know what she has but where did they come from. To many for a bird to have dropped a seed.

 

[Kya D]

Did she plant mixed wildflower seeds?

 

[RonsGarden]

It was one of those eureka moments while cutting the grass!
I knew I knew it but, just couldn't get it becasue of the number of petals.
Most phlox species have 5 petals!

Probably came in a wildseed mix like Dawn mentioned. But, I think the seed could have come mixed in with bagged soil!

 

[Maggie]

Ok so I asked her if she had planted any wildflower seed and she said she did 3 years ago. She said every year some strange flower pops up. So thats probaley where they came from. Thanks again guys.

 

[RonsGarden]

I bit if info on the seeds: they can remain viable in the soil for a very long time. All they need is someone to turn the soil to expose the seeds to light and away they grow!