Can anyone identify this plant please

 

Seen in the gardens at Cottesbrooke today.

www.bellows.org.uk/misc/flower.jpg

Help appreciated

Thanks

Nick

 


I notice that the webpage link I put in  is pefixed with google when
clicked on.

 

NOTTNICK said:

Something in the Pinks family (Caryophyllaceae), I think.

Possibly a white culitvar of Lychnis (campion) or Agrostemma
(corncockle)?

Plant trivia:  'Pink' originally refered to the *notching* found on
the flower petals, and only later came to mean the *color* that is
typical of most pinks.  (The older meaning of the word continues
in use for the special type of scissors known as "pinking shears.")

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wrote:


The leaves at the bottom of the photos resemble four o'clocks, as do
the flowers.

Boron

 




    Looks like a damnable "four o'clock" (Mirabilis jalapa spp), to me.
So-named because the ephemeral flowers begin closing by mid-afternoon.
Available in a wide range of colors, some have serrated or denticulated
leaves. Frost-tender, self-seeding, invasive, persistent, PITA. I've
been mowing the same 25 y/o patch of damnable 4:00 for 15 years! A curse
left behind by some yahoo who thought they were "pretty", I guess.
--
the Balvenieman
USDA zone 9b, peninsular Florida, U.S.A.