Hi there, I am really interested in botany but know really nothing of the subject right now and it seems silly (because it looks like a very basic type of flower), but I've been trying to identify a flower growing in my front yard for a little over a year now. I've asked around to everyone I know and no one knows what it is. Can anyone tell me what this is? I'm sure it's probably a pretty popular flower (although I've never seen it before...again I'm new at this!). I'm really not even sure at how to go about identifying flowers... Anyway, thanks for humoring me!
Hello BodyXScape I do believe it is a collarette dahlia. compare with these pictures http://images.google.com/images?svn...=1&ct=result&cd=1&q=collarette+dahlia&spell=1
Interesting point about spelling of this word: Google search of "collarette dahlia" gives a similar number of results to a search of "collerette dahlia". I suspect that collerette was the original version, but was corrupted in the English-speaking world. See this Wikipedia article: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collerette_(costume)
Hello Ron & Tony et al RHS lists it the class as Collerette while the American Dahlia Society lists it as Collarette so I guess it depends on what side of the pond you are on from the US Dahlia Soc http://www.dahlia.org/guide/form.html from the RHS http://www.rhs.org.uk/Learning/publications/registers/dahliaregister13.pdf as Shakespeare said (well he wrote it (?) and Juliet says it to be pedantic!!) O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; Romeo and Juliet » Act 2. Scene II
