A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 little red flowers?

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!!