Can anyone identify this plant for me?

[wee quinnie]

Sorry for it being a bit blurry. The stems are long and thin, and the flowers are small with pointed/triangular white petal and a raised yellow centre.

[hibbs]

Oh how diappointing...i thought the image was going to be of a pair of pants :-)

[Sue]

Do you have a picture of the leaves?

ETA: And/or a picture of the whole plant showing the shape of it?

[uncleglen]

Chamomile by the looks- does it smell nice?

[uncleglen]

It's definitely from the family Compositae if that helps with the identification- probably won't though-there are thousands of the little blighters

[wee quinnie]

More pics/clearer pics:

BTW - I don't think it is a chamomile type - the leave shape is more like a spinach shape leaf than feathery.

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Sue Wrote:

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> Do you have a picture of the leaves?

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> ETA: And/or a picture of the whole plant showing

> the shape of it?

Sue the outline of the whole plant is similar to verbena bonariensis.

[Sue]

The square shaped stems should be a clue.

The petals look like they might be papery like an "everlasting" flower - are they?

I don't have time, but there are plant ID websites online, you can go through step by step (type of leaf, type of stem, type of flower, colour etc) and hopefully at least reduce the options a bit?

ETA: Thanks re the outline. I have no idea at all what it is (and I've worked in two plant centres specialising in unusual plants - but then my memory is crap so I probably wouldn't recognise anything these days!!!)

[sheilarose]

It has the same stems and leaves as statice (limonium) but I've never seen one with single flowers like this.

[intexasatthe moment]

Could you have one plant growing up through another ?

So that although it looks like that clump of leaves you've posted belong to the same plant as the flower ,it doesn't really ?

[Sue]

sheilarose Wrote:

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> It has the same stems and leaves as statice

> (limonium) but I've never seen one with single

> flowers like this.

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Ah, thanks, I was thinking of statice, but I googled it as statys and then couldn't find it!

The flowers are quite different here, though, aren't they?

The stem is very similar to a Verbena bonariensis, the same squareness and legginess. But obviously leaves and flowers quite different too.

InTexas, good thinking :)

[raasaygirl]

Could it be ammobium grandiflorum?

http://www.seedman.com/aammobium.htm

[intexasatthe moment]

oooh raasaygirl ,I think you've got it !

[Sue]

:)

[JeanieB]

raasaygirl, definitely, that's the one, well done. Wee quinnie got the plant off my wall in Crystal Palace Road and I had labelled it as Ammi majus which is a beautiful plant, quite different to this one. I bought the seeds from seeds.com and they have obviously labelled them wrongly but seeing the name for this one, ammobium grandiflorum I can kind of see how the mistake happened. Problem was I planted 30 of them all over my garden before I realised the mistake. They're nice, but not that nice. Thanks for solving the mystery.

[raasaygirl]

Ammi majus does look a much nicer plant!

By the way , the South London Botanical Institute (Norwood Road) is a great place for help with identifying plants, especially wild or native species. Its open every Thursday. There's a herbarium (dried plant collection)which includes every British plant.

[wee quinnie]

I've only just noticed this! Thank you rasaygirl.

I knew someone on here would know!