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these little red flowers poped up in my yard this year.anyone know what they are?their bout 2-3 feet tall, like sun-part shade. their seeds are small black little things."now lets hope i get the pic right"

i made the pic smaller on the web sight!
i forgot the flowers have red color on the upper side of the petals and yellow on the bottom. any info would be great,
thanks

Sibyl, it's really difficult to see details as your picture is very blurred. The size is fine.

Your mystery plant may be one of the Gaillardia, possibly G. aristata. Could you try for another photo that shows the flower and foliage in more detail?

I love a good Mystery plant!

Sibyl,
I agree, about the size, it's great.
But can't see the flowers or stems' very well,
do you have a different picture or angle of the flowers????

Yes, gaillardia is one of my guesses also, I can't really tell from the picture which foliage goes to the flower, but other guesses would be orange cosmo (which is what the foliage looks like to me in that pic) or coneflower(echinacea big sky 'sundown' or 'sunset') which would be the two color blend as you said.

Here's the link to the big sky series.

i hope you can see this pic better. the leaves remind me of a cosmo-batchlor button mix {if that makes any sence} but the flower and seeds dont

now its too small

Take your time and be patient,
Keep tryin' Sybil..
We'll be here..
Get it just a wee~bit bigger..

in my first pic, the stringy leaves belong to the red flowers, and the biger leaves belong to my phlox,ill try to make my second pic bigger and see if that helps.i have gaillardias and i dont think its it,the flower size are ,foilage. and seeds are diffrent.sorry wish i had a better pic

hellow is anyone there??
i made my pi bigger, help!

I think the first pic sorta looks like a gaillardia

I think it is aaaa...... child! I see a little one peeking through the plants. Sorry still can't see the flower.
Diane

Oh and BTW. I love your garden. It looks like the cottage/english style. I'd love to get my mixed up messes more like that.
Diane

Okay anyone think it's a Cosmos?????
Those stringy leaves and height remind me
of a Cosmos???

What does anyone else think???????

I think you may be right Weezie...the foliage looks like Cosmos but I've never seen them in that color.
But the bloom looks alot like Helenium too

But I don't think the chocolate cosmos have the same foliage as the annual cosmos????? I still really can't tell which foliage goes with those flowers ???

Yeah, I am wonderin' too..
The foliage looks feathery in the picture,
but all the choco~cosmos's look thicker...
So, lets' maybe keep lookin'~

THANKS for the help! i googled the blanket flowers and they dont look any thing like them, but i also googled cosmos and they do look alot like them chocolate ones except the choloates dont have the yellow under the petals, and their bigger,so im thinking its some sort of cosmo, just dont know what kind,, and thanks for admiring my garden!

Kinda looks like poppies to me. But too small to be Iceland poppies.
Can you take a flower and a few leaves to a nursery for identification?

This has been an interesting thread to follow and I'm soooooooo curious as to the actual ID of the red flowers. I tried to edit the first picture to make the flowers easier to see but my picture isn't much better. The "fuzzy" yellow centers and foliage still make me lean toward something in the Rudbeckia, Echinaceae or Gaillardia families, especially Gaillardia.
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i googled cosmos,and gaillardia, and so far no matches!
rudbeckia hu? they have little black seeds! im gonna try and google rudbeckias! thanks! i didnt even think of them,

They are sure pretty!! Whatever they are!!

The shape of the flowers makes me think it could be Helenium. Sibyl, did you "google" Helenium?? But then again, Helenium does not have that lacy foliage. Very interesting

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i googled coreopsis and these looked like em but i couldnt see the foilage, dose corpsis have leaves like cosmos?

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How about this????
Coreopsis \'Limerock Ruby\'

Whatchya think????????????????

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Weezie
that looks just like my flowers except mine have yellow under the petals!!!! i think i found em but i cant get the pic on,

Okay, whatchya tryin' to link???
I'll see if I can help?

Is it from a Google??????
Or what, can't tell where you're getting
that set of numbers from, *not all that computer
savy sometimes..*

http://bayimages.net/flowers/coreopsis/i1954.html with the image in its original context.

I DID IT!!!!!!

these are my flowers! thank you all for the help,

Okay, Great job on the posting of the picture!!!
Woooooo~hooooooooo..

But now I'm confused????
The picture originally I saw, I only
saw a rust colored flower?
And you say you have yellow on them/outter edges???

Weezie
on my flowers i have a red color on the top side of the petales and yellow on the bottom side of the petals,
on the link i posted if you look at the very bottom flower that looks like its wilting, youll see the bottom side of the petals all yellow,
my flowers dont have the yellow edges , but its the closest thing ive found so far, if it wernt for the yellow around the top petales ,and a darker red, it would be a perfect match, im pretty shure its a coreopsis, i just have to find its name,

Sibyl, a little off track, your signature pic looks like my babies. Those are Rotti's? Do you have puppies?
We breed them and just finished a litter.
Diane

Sibyl,
Just outta curiousity...
Are the two pictures,
*the first one you posted and the second one you posted with the little boy in the picture*
Are they the same flower in question????

To me, the first one looks straight orange/rust colored..
The second one, I do see a tinge of yellow like..

So, to me, they look different..

Either way, I think we've got at the very least the "Family" of your plant..
So, I am hopin' that we got some info for you..

There are different colors of coreopsis.
I have the gold one.
I was getting caught up in this thread too, and am glad the mystery is solved ! Fun !

Weezie
my two pics are the same flowers!pretty odd hu? if you look at the tops they look all red, in this pic most of the leaves were turned up so you can see under em, look down to the right and you can see a few tops of the flowers ,dont look like thered be yellow under their petals hu?
by the way thats my little girl in my pic, if you could see her face you could see how cute she is!

Diane
i love rotties! i had my baby girl rottie first, had her for about 9 years, when she past away my hubby bought me my rotten girl, she past away last year,ive had people ask me about breeding her, but i got her fixed, and theres so many people out there who dont know about the breed to raise em. or they buy em for the wrong reasons, id be scared of breeding,

YAY Weezie and Sibyl!!!

How about this one, coreopsis \'mahogany\'

Melcon
i now have a name !!
THANK YOU!

Welllllllllll, Wooooooo~Hoooooooo!!
Finally...
That one was a toughie, but very glad
to finally get a name for that puppy...

Thanks Mel!!