Inherited these plants, would appreciate their names: 1. Tall stalks, small little purple flowers, leaves long and skinny. (Not the asters, also in the photo). 2. Creeping ground cover with single red flowers (1cm across) on 20-30 stalk. 3. Ground cover with purple/green leaves. I think this may be ajuga reptans.
2 looks like Hawkweed, Hieracium aurantiacum. http://www.fws.gov/invasives/volunteersTrainingModule/pdf/bigpicture/AK_Kodiak.pdf 3 Ajuga reptans
1. Purple Toadflax Linaria purpurea. Which is a synonym of Pilosella aurantiacum as given by Wrygrass2 ;-)
I actually came to the Hieracium to start with. The leaves look to be almost identical. Hence the Pilose in Pilosella. There was also a Hieracium pilosella but the Pilosella aurantiacum seemed to best fit the picture. I actually didn't check for synonyms. I still had some second thoughts as sointula said that the flowers were single, and the pictures I found on the net were not so. That's why the question mark. Turns out that Hieracium aurantiacum is the accepted taxon in the US and Canada at least as far as I can tell from the web. (USDA Plants page, and BC eFlora) Europe uses Pilosella as the genus. Which is why Michael F knew that it was the same plant. :) Also please note the web page that saltcedar referred to in his post as to the plants invasive properties.
