we always had a plant we called bachelor buttons, but it wasn't the blue flower i see when i do a search. it is a plant that grows similar to monkey grass but the "bloom" is a compact little white flower taht is no bigger than a med size shirt button. Any clues on what this is??? I would like to get some!

Try these:

Field Milkwort
more

more
Polygala

are these anything like what you're thinking of?

I think I only want to keep sayinging this plant because I grew it with bachalors buttons last year but her goes! I had also never seen baby's breath in a garden untill I grew it and was like.. what is that, that's not what floral baby's breath looks like!

Boxmonkey,
I absolutely love that green one, milkwort???
Beautiful color!!!

Liz, your baby's breath is gorgeous. Boxmonkey, your pictures are great. Weezie, I agree they are all beautiful

BUT - not it

the best way to describe it to you is the clumps grow like monkey grass, but the blades are much shorter and finer. the flowers are on long single stems with no leaves and the flower heads are like the inside of a mum only very tiny and very very compact. not at all soft or even soft looking. almost bright white on green stems with green grass. the stems are no bigger around than a wire coat hanger if that big and about 6-8 inches long.

Thanks for your help!

Kay here's another one! ????



Family: Melanthiaceae
Type: Perennial
Common: Fly poison

Amianthium muscaetoxicum

know isn't that tricky the pic I tried to link was broken up into peices, here are the flower peice

closer, but not quite...

so I'm guessing that i'm off on the flower and close on the foliage?
Do you remember that time of year that it bloomed
area that it grew in? wet? Dry?
was it like a crocus or a flowering rush?

this is fun!

they are just finishing blooming now. you are right on the foliage. the ground around them is fairly high & dry, but the area is like all of the southeast, not far from the water table. sandy soil. bright light, not sure if it is full sun or not. gotta check on that. there is a trailer not far (5-6 miles) that has a few growing beside it. the grass clumps are like daylilies or monkey grass, but finer and lower leaves/fronds.
I really appreciate the help in searching for this!

Am I getting any closer?

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/images/tradevi1.htm

Okay Jiffy,
I'm getting into this one too???

Blue~eyed grass

Weezie Blue eyed grass #2

Info on Bachelor's Buttons at:

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/southerngarden/bachelor.html


Color range: purple, rose, orange and white.

Jiffy,

more bachelor buttons
Weezie


knap weed, centauras

Nope, none of the above. not in the corn flower category at all. flowers are white (never seen any other color). clumps of grass have thin, narrow blades that are about 2-3 inches long. liz got close with one of the sites in the foliage part.

Jiffy,
Got any pictures???????????

Weezie

wish i did!

Dracula carderii



Dendrochilum tenellum

http://www.hortusb.com/ode2t.html

maybe, maybe not?

what do the flowers look like?

right color, wrong shape. the flowers remind me in shape, of the chocolate non-pariels (sp?). almost like a super miniature mum head. very hard and just under 1/2 inch in diameter.

ok, does it look like a pincushion.
Like a scabiosa???


scabiosa

Weezie

weezie, the shape of the top of that flower is closer. only really compact and hard. and the "petals" are very small.

Lizheaemma,


Does this flower match yours???

Gypsophilia Elegans

Weezie

Jiffy,
I'm getting stumped on yours,
but I'll keep thinkin'!!!
Weezie

more on bachelor's button:

http://www.florvertical.com/ingles/galeria/ver_foto.cfm?foto=2596

http://www.florvertical.com/ingles/galeria/ver_foto.cfm?foto=15308

http://www.veseys.com/store.cfm?product=503&referer_cat=653

I recieved a new book for christmas and I got a new idea..... might it be.....

Hatpins or syngonanthus flavidulus
http://www.virtualherbarium.org/lf/erioc.jpg

This links not great! But it's the only pic I could find!

I am about 90% sure that YOU GOT IT RIGHT!! <img border="0" alt="[clappy]" title="" src="graemlins/clappy.gif" /> Thank you so very much!! I got a digital camera for Christmas and I will try to take a picture of it this spring! Thanks again!!

ok, after doing some research, i think it is called small's bog button and you can find pictures and information at the plant atlas of Florida
Liz, I think the latin name for the one i was looking for is Lachnocaulon minus and it is a relative of the one you found.

Ohhh Jiffy those darn boxes and red X....try again please!!!!

Jiffy, I didn't see the pictures' either,
I could see lizheaemma's though,
I don't think I've seen one before.....

Weezie

karen, i had to edit the post because the link wouldn't work... so... click on the url link and you can get to see all kinds of them... also, i found a site where they were referred to as "bog bachelor buttons"! so my memory isn't that faulty after all!! Thanks Liz for finding it for me!

excellent! bog button was my next guess (lachnocaulon anceps) or another close relative is (eriocaulon septangulare) pipewort all members of thr pipewort family (eriocaulaceae) and the button part would really fit into you puzzle!