# ID this mystery flowering plant **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 11, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331 "2011-08-11T14:17:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331/1 "2011-08-11T14:17:53Z")
What is this mystery flowering plant? It’s making me crazy because I’m sure I used to know it. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331/2 "2011-08-11T14:18:44Z")
Invisiblus Misinglinkum. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331/3 "2011-08-11T14:19:27Z")
A pic or description would help. Lacking that, I’ll guess “chicory,” because I like chicory. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331/4 "2011-08-11T14:23:49Z")
The OP has obviously not had enough coffee. I’ll guess Birdsrape Mustard. **Twicks** - I love chicory too! It’s all over our mountain meadow behind the house. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331/5 "2011-08-11T14:25:14Z")
Forgot the [link](http://www.flickr.com/photos/46138173@N08/6031921545/). ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331/6 "2011-08-11T14:27:09Z")
Anemone - in Japanese it’s a shumeigiku! Let me Google that and get a proper translation. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331/7 "2011-08-11T14:27:49Z")
Looks like some kind of mallow. ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331/8 "2011-08-11T14:29:05Z")
Anemone hupehensis Here’s the Wikipedia page on it. I have pink and white ones but they are not flowering yet. > **[Eriocapitella hupehensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemone_hupehensis_var._japonica)** > > Eriocapitella hupehensis, a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, is native to Asia. The specific epithet hupehensis, which means "from Hupeh (Hupei, Hubei) province, China", refers to a region where the species is known to occur. In Chinese, it is called dǎ pò wǎn huā huā (打破碗花花), which means "broken bowl flower". > Eriocapitella hupehensis is a perennial herbaceous plant with a rhizome-like root structure. It is a clump-forming plant with 3–5 basal leaves, each with... ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331/9 "2011-08-11T14:30:27Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Looks like some kind of mallow. Same here, I thought it might be some kind of Malva sp. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331/10 "2011-08-11T14:33:05Z")
Thank you! Note: the flower petals are thicker than malvas I’ve seen. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331/11 "2011-08-11T15:20:17Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Note: the flower petals are thicker than malvas I’ve seen. Now I know what happened to the missing calipers. Please return them immediately! ---
**Author:** ![Bewildebeest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bewildebeest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bewildebeest)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-mystery-flowering-plant/592331/12 "2011-08-11T19:00:14Z")
Hokkaido Brit is right, Japanese anemone. Not any kind of mallow. I’ve got white ones in my back yard.