Thanks to everyone for the responses, I think we have the plant. Aside from the color of the flowers, the plant is identical to many...
The thread was updated with new images, if bumping my own thread is not allowed I apologize. When the flowers weren't dead, they looked almost...
It's like this, or close enough for government work; The plant I saw has the leaves of Sea Lavender (Limonium sp.) and the stalk along with the...
Although the seed pods are similar, mine never looked like balloons like the Cardiospermum pods do. The image I linked in the original post is the...
The Sea Lavender variant of Limonium.
The plant in question was growing in a partly shady area of a private garden belonging to Pierce Community College. This garden is in the Los...