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What is this please

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Snowberry3 · 30/09/2022 08:06

Been very successful this summer. Multi stemmed about 30cm high, lots of small white flowers, some plants have yellow centres to their flowers. Think I grew them from seed last year so probably perennials. Small straight leaves.
Have gone over now so only the odd flower left as shown.

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What is this please
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Plastichanger · 30/09/2022 08:08

Looks like gypsophila to me

Snowberry3 · 30/09/2022 08:18

Could be. I thought gypsophila had the flowers on fine leafless stems where as these are on the leafed stems but will check online for pics. thanks.

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MereDintofPandiculation · 30/09/2022 08:24

Truly terrible picture Grin possibly the double form of feverfew - is the foliage aromatic?

MereDintofPandiculation · 30/09/2022 08:25

Yellow centres would rule out gypsophila, I think?

ThisisMax · 30/09/2022 08:31

Achillea ptarmica- The Pearl

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 30/09/2022 08:32

Can you to post a better picture? Could it be dianthus?

MereDintofPandiculation · 30/09/2022 08:41

Whatever it is, it sounds as if it’s in the Asteraceae (formerly Compositae), daisy family, whose “flowers” are actually flower heads of dozens of tiny flowers. Many of them, like daisy itself, have central yellow “disk florets” surrounded by white “ray florets” . In a double form of these, the yellow disc florets are replaced by white ray florets, but if you have the odd more single flower, they would have yellow disc florets in the centre.

If you pull off a ray floret of one of the larger Asteraceae members, eg Dahlia, sunflower, Echinacea, you can see it’s rolled together at the base, with tiny stamens and/or stigma. And the way the centre of the “flower” matures from edge in, with seeds developing at the edge first, is because the florets are opening at different stages, just like the flowers on something like a foxglove.

Snowberry3 · 30/09/2022 08:42

Yes, sorry about the pic.
It is Achilles ptarmica the Pearl . Thanks all. I did think it had pearl in the name but searching took me to swwtpeas.

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ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 30/09/2022 09:13

It looks lovely. I see the serrates leaves now.

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