What is this plant?

Discussion in 'Plants: Identification' started by Gidde, Jun 13, 2008.

  1. Gidde

    Gidde Member

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    Hi!

    I have a creeper/climber/vine growing rampantly in one of the flowerbeds that I am trying to reclaim. I've looked all over the web and apparently this thing doesn't exist according to all the identification keys I can find. I don't have a camera, but here are the characteristics I can describe:

    Flowers look like periwinkle, but there are 6, not 5, petals. There are VERY few of them.
    Leaves are opposite, smooth, long, roundish at the stem coming to a point at the tip, with a single vein down the middle with smaller veins coming off of it, and white/cream around the edges.

    It grows like wildfire, and I think it's rather pretty but suspect it to be a weed. Can anyone tell me what this is?

    Thanks!
     
  2. saltcedar

    saltcedar Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    What color and size are the flowers?
     
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    saltcedar Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    Another possibility is Variegated Vinca and a naturalized bulb
    such as Star of Bethlehem blooming through the foliage.
     
  4. Gidde

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    Yeah, I'm pretty sure at this point that it's a variegated vinca ... I found a picture of a "Ralph Shugart" variety that looks almost identical to my plant. It just must have been a mutant flower to have an extra petal, like a 4-leaf clover :)

    Thanks for the help!
     

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