Unusual Plant Names
This year for the first time I bought a beautiful plant for my garden with the off-putting name of "dead nettle." Today I came across Follyage, a blog posting that lists many other unusual plant names. Some of them I don't consider too unusual, probably because I'm used to them. Bachelor's buttons and silverlace dusty miller fall into that category. On the other hand, I am a little startled by names such as showy tidytips, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon, or hooker's onion. Now I just need to start looking up the plants to see what they look like. Via Vitamin Q.
posted by Amy @ 6/01/2006 05:06:00 a.m.
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Are you going to cook your nettles, Amy? I assume they are an edible variety?
I don't know if they are or not. It seems to be just a decorative plant--the foliage is beautiful (green with silver/white pattern). The flowers are smallish; I think both the plants I got have purple flowers.
Does that sound like the edible variety? I'm not familiar with nettles (except for reading about them in fairy tales).
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