MarK This looks like Codonopsis convolvulacea Cheers, John E. Bryan Antennaria@aol.com wrote: > > Hello, > > Spontaneously appearing in my garden, twining up through a rhododendron, is a > Codonopsis species. I don't have any Codonopsis in the garden, so its > appearance is somewhat of a mystery. Possibly I tossed out some old seed, or dumped > some soil from ungerminated seed flats. The leaves are glabrous, widely > elliptical, and arranged in 4-part whorls. The large, waxy, egg-like buds started > opening just last week, near the end of August 2006. The flowers are milky > green-white on the outside, and dull purplish inside (with a faint bluish > sheen)... solid purplish on the upper half, white heavily spotted purple in the > lower half. > > Two photos taken in the rain today (8/27/2006): > http://www.plantbuzz.com/buzz/im_codonopsis.htm > > Anyone know what species it might be? > > I tried to make an identification online using a Google search, but find > there are many, many species, it's rather confusing, and I haven't been able to > pinpoint an ID. > > PS. This message also sent to Alpine-L. Since there is a wiki page for > Codonopsis, I thought I'd post this to PBS as well. > > Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States > antennaria@aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5 > ============================================== > >> web site under construction - http://www.plantbuzz.com/ << > alliums, bulbs, penstemons, hardy hibiscus, western > american alpines, iris, plants of all types! > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php