A fellow blogger posted this flower as a florida penstemon, and I was positive that I was seeing a ruellia, until I got on a computer with a larger screen. She insists that she has a penstemon, but neither of us can find it on google images. What say you? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AlrRBlOF-lo/UZgwWWdayBI/AAAAAAAAasI/41c05rLwl9U/s1600/DSCF4249.JPG http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AdqR7ANJdM8/UZgwaPSaFII/AAAAAAAAasQ/P8DCOFFl1GU/s1600/DSCF4252.JPG Edit: Attached the pics... Doesn't look like there's a quick answer here...
Ruellia is my guess as well though I can't say which. http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/species.php?id_plant=RUNU
Here is the picture that opened the door to being something else for me. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U6TNDlsxeMY/UZgwdbkB7ZI/AAAAAAAAasY/so8_JMO_G54/s1600/DSCF4254.JPG Apologies for not getting it posted on the initial request. Please notice apparent stamens and pistil at the top edge of the bloom (in the enlarged pic).... Edit: Attached the pic...
I'm not clear on what you're referring to here. Assuming it's the exerted stamens and pistil Ruellia has those characteristics as well. http://www.prairiemoon.com/seeds/wi...ia-humilis-wild-petunia/?cat=250&from_search= http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/biohires/r/hruhu--flfront24985.jpg
That bottom link was helpful... Of course, with the colour differences, and the leaf differences... still don't really know what she has... Went to that site's home page to peruse the ruellias, and they all seem to be fuzzier than her plant.
It is difficult to see from the flower photo, but a penstemon would have four stamens on the top and the staminode at the bottom. In the photo, there is a thing at the bottom which looks more like a true stamen, not a stamonode. If so, this is not a penstemon.
Never mind... the plant has been identified! Dyschoriste oblongifolia http://seedscatterer.blogspot.com/2013/05/mystery-wildflower-is-dyschoriste.html
