I know this picture is not very good, but I was wondering if anyone can identify what this plant is (circled). The ladies at my job found it in the garden. I haven't seen the flowers, but they said they are a beautiful blue color. I did see, though, that they get a puff of seeds, a lot like a dandelion gets, when the petals of the flower dies off. And the heads look like a dandelion head, there are long flowing leaves on the stems, but they are hard to see with this picture. And each head has a single stem, like a dandelion has.

Thanks.

Daisy

Hard to tell from here, but it looks a bit like a day lily. Do those blooms open up to yellow flowers? My daylilys acted kind of like large dandelions. After the blooms, they become large white puffy things and they spread easily. I dug mine up and tossed them.

I don't think they are daylilies, but I haven't seen the flowers. They all are open at the top where the flower comes out, like a dandelion, but if you look at a pic of a lily, they are closed. I was told they are blue, though, not yellow. They look like weeds in a garden, which I told them they probably are, but they still want to know.

Can you gve us another picture with good focus on the shape of the leaves?

I'll try.

Maybe Bachelors Buttons PlantFiles: Detailed information on Bachelor's Button, Cornflower Centaurea cyanus

That looks like a good possibility. I'll have to print a picture for them. Thanks

As requested, I took two more pictures. One is before the flower opens, and the other is of after it's gone and when the fuzzies are there. I still didn't see a flower. I know they aren't good, but I am still working with just a camera phone here.

Not bad for a camera phone. Hmm those fuzzies look a lot like my day lilies did after they'd bloomed. But of course your blooms are blue and different so that's not it.. but I wonder if they're related? I wonder if they're related to dandelions too.

You'll have to take a photo when they're bloomed and see if they look like bachelor buttons.

Could this be it?It is purple in color though.
http://www.arthurleej.com/images/Tragopogon.jpg

Purple Salsify - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If I ever see it with a flower (I'm not in that section of the building to often, though) then I will definitely take a picture of it.

That purple salsify plant sure does look exactly like the one at my work. Thanks. I'll show them the picture of it.

It is a cornflower (cornflower blue) and yes it is a weed.

It's called a Goatsbeard or Salsify. They can have either yellow or purplish flowers and the seeds look like they are from a giant dandelion and they have a milky sap like a dandelion also. They are basically a large noxious weed.

Salsify - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Botanic Gardens Trust - Tragopogon porrifolium

I'm a Landscape Architect

Apple, all depends on what part of the world you come from. In my part, which is eastern Ontario, it is called a cornflower.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by tickle

apple, all depends on what part of the world you come from. In my part, which is eastern Ontario, it is called a cornflower.

---

Tickle,

Cornflower is one of the common names for a Bachelor Button (Centaurea cyanus). Although they come from the same family (Asteraceae), that is as close as they come.

The Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius) is very different from a Cornflower or Bachelor Button (Centaurea cyanus). They are about as closely related as the Lemur and Humans (both Primates).

I have those weeds at my house... they look like dandelions gone wild.

The picture of the flower looks like one of those "wishes" that the dandelions turn into.

In Texas we "yank" them there weeds!