On our recent trip to Basket Barn Nursery over in Blairsville GA I saw the prettiest flowing billowing plant with dainty white blooms. It was in a pot with other flowers and was so pretty that it quickly captured my eye.
I should have asked the folks at the nursery to tell me the name of the plant. Although I failed on that front, I found a similar flower growing wild out behind the shed.
The plant is prolific in my mountain holler and especially likes the bank that runs along back of our house.
I’ve heard it called Indian Physic as well as white aster. A quick google showed it’s not in the aster family, but I can see why folks might think it is.
The stems of the plant are a reddish color which really make the blooms stand out.
Interestingly google also shared that people use the plant in floral designs because of it’s airy nature. Might be that the one I seen in the nursery is related? If not it’s certainly similar in appearance.
How blessed I am to have them adorning my yard for free.
Tipper
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Tipper!!! (If you’ve read my Comment here from only minutes ago,…) I found the sticks(labels) in my basket from last year — the nursery plant that I use for filler is “Diamond Frost” (now you can look it up!)!
…and it is a Euphorbia. I’d forgotten that, completely. So, there you go!
“Happy gardening!”
Thank you Sheila!!
It looks like a star fish!
Hi Tipper!
First, I too am praying for Matt and your family, after the recent diagnosis of Matt’s father! “Cruel, cruel world!” . . .”GOD is good” (he is our refuge and strength..EVER PRESENT in times if trouble. I love you and will continue my prayer(!), after life has dealt you this “1,2-punch”!
I also wanted to comment on the white, airy plant that filled-in the potted flower at the nursery. I’d have to visit my “nursery if choice” down the road, to remember the NAME of that flowering plant . . .but I buy it every Spring for my porch or balcony pots (“no, I can’t ‘go read the stick out there’s — it’s too early for us to plant our flowers here…hence my delight, two weeks ago, at your lush yard, flowers, and garden . . .AND the trees!). I just wanted to add that, while the plant DIES fill-in “PERFECTLY” actually, I also have to chop it back generously (you can just hack it!) — it IS *prolific! “Prolific, but WORTH IT!” I’ve never put it in the ground, but I’d bet that it would ALSO fill-in a garden space with a nice, bushy mound of those dancing flowers!
PS. …and you’ve already gotten a myriad of answers to the woody bloom pictured (“pretty!”), but you probably have known about ‘Syrup of Epicac’, growing up?
Tipper, the white airy plant was an euphorbia. Check out Proven Winners website for euphoria….they have Diamond Snow, Diamond Mountain, and Diamond Frost. I saw some PE Diamond Snow at Home Depot last week. PW plants are cheaper at HD or Quinn’s Nursery in Fannin Co. than PW website. I grew some euphoria last year, and it is beautiful. Hope y’all are doing well. Praying for Paw Tony. Enjoy your videos and blog.
Hello Tipper this is what I found out about your beautiful flower. I love your YouTube channel and have followed it for a few years.
https://www.picturethisai.com/care/Gillenia_stipulata.html
Tell Matt, my birthday is May 1 too, Katie and Corie hello and God bless from me. Have a wonderful day Tipper. ✝️❤️☺️
Hope you had a good one 🙂
good morning friends and family, please pray for my health, I’ve been to several doctors, looks like they only help I’m going to get is go see a neurologist and go from there, pain in a certain place on my head, please pray for me thank you and God bless you, I have called nine dentist, and eight out of nine , does not accept Georgia Medicaid as a form of payment, the 9th one did not call me back, this has nothing to do with the head pain, God help me in Jesus name, thank you for praying God bless you and your family, God bless Tony, Matt’s father in Jesus name
I’m sorry I will pray for you. Thank you for praying for Papaw!
Tipper, please say a prayer for me. I have to get several teeth pulled tomorrow. 45 years of using Snuff has did a number on them.
Brian I will pray for you. I hope it goes well!
I love visiting Jesse at the Basket Barn! Have a great day 🙂
Hi Tipper and Acorns. The flowers are beautiful.
Wonderful !!!!
I researched online. It is also called Fawns Breath, Bowman’s Roots, Indian Physic, American Ipecac.
It grows Grows 2-4ft tall. Can spread 3ft
The American Indians and early Colonists knew the uses of the roots.
Powdered, it could be used as a
Tonic. Cathartic. Expectorant.
To induce vomiting in cases of poisoning.
I thot it interesting.
Beautiful flower.
I love taking walks so I can see different flowers and flowering bushes. For Mother’s Day my son gave me a beautiful Rhododendron and I am looking forward to seeing it grow and bring forth beautiful blooms.
Greetings fellow Acorns! Thanks Denise R. for the plant identification app. I’ve put it on my phone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1834 in his poem, “The Rhodora” “If eyes were made for seeing then beauty is its own excuse for Being” which contemplates the beauty of a simple flower (the Rhodora) and it’s effects on the surroundings. I have often thought of that single line when viewing even my own backyard and the gorgeous plants and trees. It was fun to once again read about that poem and the cause that made Mr Emerson share his wisdom. I haven’t read the poem in many years. What a nice way to start my day! Thanks Tipper for sharing your love of nature. You inspired me to review my journey.
Blessings to all!
Thank you for sharing another pretty flower for me to learn and to keep an eye out for. So very sorry to hear about Papaw Tony’s diagnosis. I am praying for Papaw, Nana and you all, and for comfort for him as he waits to hear what they can do. You have been through so much with your loved ones.
I took a screenshot of the flower and used Picture This to determine what it is called. It is called Bowman’s root or mountain Indian physic.
Morning everyone, There is also an app called “Picture This”. It is free for 7 days, then you click on cancel. It still works but you don’t get “extras”. It will also identify trees. There is also Plantora. My son also has an app that identifies what kind of cat you have. A few times it said my cat was a dog. Can that be right? Anna from Arkansas.
I’d like to have rode with you to the plant nursery because I’m willing to bet there’s flowers and plants there that may not be available here farther north. When I went to the Gold Coast of Alabama I thought what’s that white stuff all over the sides of the road and what’s that smell that keeps hitting me that’s so wonderful? I found out it was just cotton blowing from fields and it was MAGNOLIAS and JASMINE which are just fragrant and so pretty! I wouldn’t want to live there as it’s too hot and ocean close, but the fauna and flora was lovely. That flower looks like wild or native clematis to me. I got no real idea so that guess is a SWAG (scientific wild a$$ guess.) Some folks are crazy over clematis and collect white and purple and other colors. They’re a big hit climbing peoples walls outside grand fenced driveway entries and folks trellises. I think they’re pretty. I’ll be fortunate if I can get my bedding plants in soon cause it’s still steel ball bearings freezing in VA next to Mt. Roger’s. Now I’m shooting for next week to plant. NOBODY has put their bedding plants out yet… I see onions and taters popped up all over but not anything that is not a root vegetable…
This for Don Duncan, I am replying to his question from yesterday, yes my mother would often times make sweet potato cobbler pies. My mother made all of her cobbler pies in a deep sided white enamel round pan and would have dough balls/dumplings in them. We were poor and never had any ice cream to go along with any of her pies.
I believe that’s Bowman’s Root, Tipper.
I’ve tried to get the pink wild phlox to grow on my property but have had little success. The bright yellow wold mustard found its way here 3 years ago and while it’s a cheery color I feel it’s more invasive. Golden rod chicory and queen Ann’s Lace show up around here. Where I grew up as a child had about 50 acres of timber. I delighted in wandering the woods, sitting by the stream, reading and discovering “forest flowers”. I got my “yarden” & extended areas planted with veggies yesterday and will, today, round out my planting with flowers and coleus! I could wander for hours and spend way too much $$ in a nursery. Prayers to all who come here needing them and a special prayer for Papaw Tony. I was so fearful this was his diagnosis:-( I could NOT DESPISE cancer more.
That is a pretty plant and flower. I am always amazed to find things growing around the yard that I did not plant and usually I do not want to get rid of it. I have a wild blackberry plant with thorns growing up in the back through a plant that my MIL gave us when we moved in this house 30 years ago. Someone told me the blackberry will take over so I have thought I probably should try to get it out but have not yet.
(Gillenia trifoliata)
I cheated and googled it. It’s a Bowman’s Root or Fawns Breath!
It’s a pretty flower and yes it even better that it grows freely on your property. Plus, you didn’t have to do all the work planting it or caring for it, God had nature to do that for you. You are definitely blessed!
It looks like Bowman’s Root (Gillenia trifoliata), Ms. Tipper. I second Denise’s recommendation for INaturalist.
You do indeed live in a magical place – to have such natural beauty & lovely people all around.
My first thought in seeing the picture was ipecac, yet somehow it looks different than I remember. However, it has been years since I’ve seen any. Ipecac used to be a common ingredient in cough syrups before chemistry replaced natural sources. The “physic” of the name Indian physic harkens back to around the1600s or so; Colonial America times anyway. Very interesting that its use in flower arrangements was because of its loose flowering head. It doesn’t draw attention as much as a more showy bloom would and is somewhat easy to pass by in the woods unless very close. From your picture I am wondering how much different it would appear depending on growing in sun or shade. I think I will go search in Internet Archive sometime today to see what I can turn up about it, hopefully something old, say pre-1900.
Those are really pretty! There’s a free app that is called INaturalist that you can download on your phone, take a picture and it will help you identify what the flower is. I use it all the time when I find an interesting plant, flower, animal and such to find out what it is. It will also allow you to mark the location that you find the plant at if you want to do that.
It’s so nice to have beautiful wildflowers on your own property. That’s a pretty one. Beauty in nature. God is awesome!