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Anybody know what these are?
I think they look like some kind of Star Creeper....

Could this be the same thing?

I think it is, but I still don't know what it is!
It's a low growing bush type plant... almost a ground cover, that's out by my driveway! It's at the end of the yard where I don't normally pull the hose out to, so I know it's draught tolerant because it's been there for 2 years that I know of, & hardly ever gets watered during our scorching summers! (Funny, I don't remember flowers on it last year... of course, I wasn't paying much attention to flowers then, either!)

I'm sayin' no,
but that's not an absolute..

To me, they just don't match up...

Anyone else??????????

I don't know what the avatar is, but I don't think it is a creeping/moss phlox.

Patty, the avatar looks like a wildflower that pops up in my lawn (which I do mow around it !)

The stuff in your driveway is like gardencrazy said, phlox sublata, or creeping phlox. It is one of my all time favorite flowers . It puts on a great show in the spring, looks great in masses of different colors, I've got purple, dark pink, light pink, white, and my fav candy stripe (pink and white stripes). It requires such little care and like you said very drought tolerant, so I can put it down front where I never get to with the hose.

Jacob's ladder?

I think they are what I call "bluets",this site calls them "Quaker ladies" and they pop up on everyones' lawns in the spring!

Houstonia caerulea (Hedyotis caerulea

Or are they some kind of "forget-me-not"????

huh?

No to the Jacob's Ladder....
No to the fmn's...
and the second one Mel posted looked in the
same type sorta....... but Patty's flower has
5 petals, the one you posted has only 4.....

The first one Mel posted is what it sounds like to me, sorta... I think my neighbor gets them..
but if I remember correctly..... those one's have some kind of stripe thru them from the center out..

Mel do you have any pictures of the one in your lawn???

Right Weezie, I noticed also the five petal/four petal difference , and yet they are so similar besides that! Mine aren't blooming yet, usually late spring, but when they do I'll post a pic if they look any different from the ones on the site I linked to.

Yep her's aren't blooming yet either...

If they are the same ones that I think they are..
the one part is different too that holds the flower on to the stem..

but I will like to see them very much...

Mel,
Is this the kind of flower you have in the spring?
Whatchya think?????
Howittia trilocularis???? Still not 100% sure?????

did that avatar come from one of bill's pics? if it did maybe he'd know?

Jamie, yes, that's one of Bill's avatars. If you look up at my first post here, you'll see that it's dated Feb 8th.... Apparently, NOBODY knows what it is, because when I noticed those flowers in my yard this week, I had to scrounge around to find this topic & bring it back up front on April 1st!

If nobody comes up with a name for my avatar, I think I'll just name it, myself! I don't know what I'll do for a botanical name, cuz Latin is "Greek" to me!

My Garden club meets tomorrow & there will be a number of Master Gardeners there... I'm taking a branch off the bush in the second post, to have them ID it for me... I know I'm not the only one in town with this plant, so somebody will know!

Patty it looked like a forget me not (wildflower) to me.

Patty, Gardencrazy and I did ID your driveway flowers!

Take a picture of your avatar for the garden club ladies to ID

I agree with Gardencrazy/Donna and Mel's reply to the driveway one... creeping phlox....

And NO still to the forget~me~nots being the avatar one...
The shape of the flower petals is just not the same.. it's close, it's in the ballpark, but definately not the same... at least to my eyeballs..

Weezie, I am with you it isn't a forget~me~not. I have seen the flower before but my mind is apparently on vacation.

The second picture is definitely creeping phlox.

okay, this is just a shot in the dark???


Nooooooooooooo, it's not......just went back and peaked.. this one's 4 petals, Patty's is 5..
Darn it all to heck!!

I think you nailed the Avatar, Princess... the photo you put up sure looks like it!
(Beautiful color!)

At this point, we have THREE mystery flowers on this thread!

Patty~ Here is a better picture of a forget~me~not. I really don't think it is the same flower.
Pink Forget-me-not


Weezie~ Is that a candytuft?

We're talking about the Avatar now, right? (Not my driveway flower.)

Gardencrazy, I couldn't get your link to work, but you say PINK forget-me not? I always thought that they were ONLY blue, & I have blue ones in my yard, but they're not up yet.

So, if forget-me-nots come in pink & blue, I'm thinking they could come in purple, as well! (The blossom itself, & even the center in Princess's photo looks SOOO close!)

Hi, Patty!

Yep I am looking at the avatar. LOL

If you do a search for Myosotis sylvatica 'Victoria rose' you should see a pink forget-me-not.

Ok How about this one?

CENTAURIUM erythraea

Yes, it is...
I saw it in my photoalbum, and I thought maybe,
but once I posted it and scrolled back and forth,
it didn't match....