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#92967 September 30th, 2006 at 02:25 AM
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Okay, I planted a package of Walmart seeds labeled as sweet alyssum. I googled sweet alyssum and this plant of mine looks nothing like it!! This plant is extremely fragrant--I almost think it's lavender. I have no idea what it is. Please help! The flower spike is only about 1.5 inches long, and the entire plant grows up about 14 inches or so.

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#92968 September 30th, 2006 at 02:44 AM
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It looks like a white salvia, Snow Hill perhaps.

#92969 September 30th, 2006 at 03:15 AM
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Hmmmm, could be salvia. Thanks for the suggestion. The flowers are not a pure white but have a slight purple hue to them. They are grown in partial shade, so would that make the blooms smaller? The blooming part of the stem also seems smaller than what I've seen for the salvia. And some pics I saw of Snow Hill had very large blossoms that reminded me of snapdragons.

#92970 September 30th, 2006 at 06:56 AM
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Sarah, did you plant any Basil this year? wink

#92971 September 30th, 2006 at 08:52 AM
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Nope, sure didn't the only seeds that I planted in this area, were called sweet alyssum. They were incredibly small navy/black seeds. I'll go out tomorrow morning and see if they taste like basil. They have a very pleasant aroma--but something like lavender, jasmine, something... Thanks for the suggestion.

The plant itself looks a lot like the salvia just not the flower/blooms.

#92972 September 30th, 2006 at 12:47 PM
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It looks like mint to me.

If you crush a leaf does it smell?

#92973 September 30th, 2006 at 05:49 PM
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That does look like some sort of mint. Maybe ur seeds were labeled wrong. Alyssum has small tan/brown seeds not black.

#92974 September 30th, 2006 at 11:06 PM
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maybe agastache 'bubblegum mint'

#92975 October 1st, 2006 at 07:16 AM
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Originally posted by LandOfOz:
Nope, sure didn't the only seeds that I planted in this area, were called sweet alyssum. They were incredibly small navy/black seeds.
That kind of illustrates the problem of refering to plants by their common name. Alyssum seeds are brown and while small I wouldn't refer to them as incredibly small. It does kind of look like Basil. I have had it come back a couple of years later sometimes.

#92976 October 1st, 2006 at 09:30 AM
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I went and did some investigating--definately a mint. The plants have a square stem with opposite leaves. The leaves have a slight fuzz to them (not smooth and shiney). I think that it is anise hyssop , a type of agastache. Thanks for the suggestion Rugby! What do you guys think? Does that look like what I've got?

Digital flower, if memory serves me right, the seeds were about the size of a grain of sand. I don't know if that is incredibly small in the gardening world, but it seemed quite small to me at the time. Sweet Alyssum is all I had written down for the plant--next time I'll keep the latin name also.

Thanks for the help guys, I wouldn't have had any idea where to even begin looking, if it weren't for you all! kissies

#92977 October 1st, 2006 at 03:58 PM
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Sarah, crush one of the leaves in your hand and if it's Anise Hyssop, you'll know immediately because it will smell like Licorice. wink

Here is a shot of an Agastache that is in one of my beds that I think is Anise Hyssop but Ive never known for sure. It is just starting to bloom so I can't tell if the blooms look like yours or not.

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#92978 October 2nd, 2006 at 08:00 AM
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Tulsa, I don't think that is the plant that I have. Thanks for the pic though, that is a pretty plant!!


Although I don't know what I'm growing, this has at least been an educational experience for me--I had no idea that there was such a vast variety of mint!

#92979 October 7th, 2006 at 05:14 AM
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Mint, Basil, Salvia, Agastache, among many others belong to the Lamiaceae (Mint family), so all have square stems and opposite leaves:D flower parts of anything of the family are born the same way with some a little showier than others, but I am guessing it's a Mint; looks like Spearmint maybe.

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#92980 October 7th, 2006 at 05:13 PM
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One more guess for your consideration, Sarah. wink
Compare yours to this picture of Catnip. Bontanical name Nepeta cataria.

#92981 October 9th, 2006 at 07:26 AM
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The leaves on the catnip look too smooth and shiney, mine have a definate fuzz to them. Thanks for the suggestion though!


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