Question: Hi Ace Botanists! Earlier this year you helped me identify that my Garden In the Woods-purchased Conoclinium coelestinum (Blue mistflower) …
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Question
Hi Ace Botanists! Earlier this year you helped me identify that my Garden In the Woods-purchased Conoclinium coelestinum (Blue mistflower) was nowhere to be seen under a patch of invasive Campanula rapunculoides (Creeping bellflower). I pitchforked out the bellflower tubers and have been plucking single and alternate leaves as I see them. You have helped me save this patch! Are these little ones likely rhizomatous remnants from the same individual I planted last year, or did it self-seed?
Answer
Dear waggledance, good morning. It would be hard to answer your question without being there to observe what is occurring in the soil. Given the large number that have seeded, it certainly seems plausible that these self-seeded, especially because they occupy a patch (not just a few lines along a rhizome). I am glad to read the patch was saved! Best wishes.
