Can you identify this flower?
These plants started coming up this spring, and I've been waiting and watching them for weeks to try to determine what they were. I'd about decided they were weeds, attempting to take over my garden, but fortunately, they've begun to bloom now.
What are they? I don't remember whether I planted them myself in the fall, or whether they were planted there by the previous inhabitants. They're a pretty blue/lavender color, five petals per bloom, fading to white in the middle. They grow three to four clustered together, as you can see by the buds to the bottom-left of this photo. Each bloom is around 3/4" in diameter. Their foliage is fuzzy, intricate, and sort of scalloped.
The flowers have the look of phlox to me, but the foliage doesn't resemble any phlox I've ever seen. They are planted in an area of mostly shade.
Any ideas from the blogosphere?
Update: Thank you so much to Annie of The Transplantable Rose and MSS of Zanthan Gardens for helping me to identify these as baby blue eyes!
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It's risky for me to guess, since your garden is in Austin and you can grow so many flowers I've never heard of, but that looks like a true Geranium to me.
Thank you, Carol - that's a path I hadn't even started to explore! Now I'm off to google true geraniums!
Hi Rachel - I think they're the reseeding annual Baby Blue Eyes... they reseed at Zilker and Zanthan but not for me!
MSS of Zanthan has on species of them in her plant files:
http://www.zanthan.com/gardens/gardenlog/?p=1964
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Annie, I think you're exactly right! Thank you so much. And thank goodness for MSS and her meticulous record-keeping. :)
I was going to say baby blue eyes, Nemophila insignis/phaceliodes, and put in a link to my photo of them...but Annie (who is the master identifier of plants) beat me to the punch. As usual. It's fun to be the reference, though.
They do well in the shade and will reseed like crazy (except at Annie's house). I have a large patch that I didn't get around to thinning that looks quite unhappy. The plants I thinned look much healthier and have been flowering since March 4th.