location: central AR color: purple height: about 1 ft more or less soil: clay sunny blooms now the blossoms seem to last only a day annual
thanks, saltcedar- with the help of your suggestion, I looked the plant up at this link: http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=RUCA4 it looks just what is growing in an little maintained area of my garden - a wild petunia or ruella caroliniensis, it keeps reseeding - I will start watering more often to have more plants-
