ID a few plants

Hello,
I took some photos of a few plants I have or found in the wild, and I am wondering if anyone can help me identify them. Thanks so much!

 

Oh, I am also putting larger images on my photo album - I just got a new camera (my first good camera ) and I am trying to take photos of plants, flowers, insects, anything that I can find that I have always wanted to take pictures of. The hard part for me is I know nothing about plants and flowers. I just know what I like and think is pretty. The plants I have now are the first ones I have ever been able to grow for more than 3 months (without accidentally killing them).

Give me a computer part and I can ID it and make it run.. but give me a plant, insect or flower and I am totally lost :(

I appreciate in advance any help I can get :)

If you want to see larger pictures of some of these:

http://www.aleeya.net/album

oops, I should have added that above to the post instead of making a reply to my own post, sorry!

 

#1 is a Tradescantia I think, part of the Wandering Jew genus.
#2 Don't know but will look at the bigger pictures and see if I can make it out.
#3 is a Day Lily, many varieties, cultivars.
#4 Gyanura species, possibly G. aurantiaca? (Spelling should be Gynura het)
#5 is a Pothos

Harry

 

#2 looks like an annual Salvia...I grew it once but have since forgotten the name.

Simon

 

Thank you SO much Harry! I really appreciate it very much :) I do not know if I have this one in the album yet.. but it is a different angle of some of the purple ones.

I had no idea #1 would be a type of a Wandering Jew. I thought # 4 might be, but I could not find any pictures on the internet with #1 or #4.

You are a great help!

 

Thank you Simon! The purple plants/flowers are pretty, I just do not know what to call them LOL. I only wish I knew a lot more about plants and flowers :) Hopefully, I am going to start learning a lot!

 

Simon, could that possibly be a Salvia farinacea 'Victoria Blue' Sage?

 

"Salvia farinacea 'Victoria Blue'"

Yes, that sounds right!

Simon

 

I came upon this picture of Rhoeo spathacea on the web that bears a striking resemblence to your first picture #1. Now I'm not sure of my earlier identification.

Upon further search I found that Rhoeo spathacea is a synonym for Tradescantia spathacea variegata. Harry

 

Harry, I took a look at the link you posted to the Rhoeo spathacea, and those look very much like the one I have.. I am going to google it and see if I can learn a little bit more about it.

 

This picture is a picture from that same site I found that you posted a link to... and This is a picture that I had taken a week ago from my plant. I believe this is going to be a match.

 

Tradescantia spathacea variegata aka Rhoeo spathacea aka Moses in the Bulrushes seems to be it.

I was curious, did #4, your purple leaved plant, look anything like Gynura aurantiaca? Sorry I misspelled it in that first reply. Also I edited it in later so you might not have caught it. The link is to a google image search. Harry

 

This picture is one that reminds me of the one of my plant. Here is one leaf of mine... My Plant Different Picture

 

Perhaps another species in Gynura genus. Close relative I would think if not G. aurantiaca. Harry

 

#4 is a purple velvet plant .. kinda touchy to look after doesnt like bright light .. and carefull on the watering .. and also if you get yellowish/orange blooms on the . take them off immediately .. they smell like dirty feet :) not a flower you want to have on a plant ...lol...

Marn

 

The 1st = Rhoeo spathacea variegated dwarf, 2nd = Salvia, 3rd = Hemerocallis lily,
4th = Gynura x sarmentosa, 5th = Scindapsus aureus