It is a mystery for sure, the garden where this soil came from was all flowers, lots of them. Since it is growing, we will get to know someday. It is not any of the known weeds here.
The English Daisies, carnations, petunia and ice plant are going great blooming and growing. So cheery going into the winter.

sallyg said: I've never seen that on FMN, but never put one under a grow light either.
Wondering about Oenothera fruticosa.
Is your seedling fuzzy at all or completely smooth?

The seedling is getting fuzzy, I moved it farther from the grow light and it is greening up with some new leaves.

Happy Thanksgiving to all! The mystery seedling bloomed late today, the flowers have a hint of lavender although the photo shows more white. One flower has 6 petals, the others have 5. Forget me not seems likely.

It is a forget-me-not

Yes, it certainly is a forget-me-not. Boy was I wrong, I didn't think the leaves looked like FMN. My advice would be to destroy it unless you want FMNs to be coming up everywhere.

Do I get a prize? Gold star? I was first to guess FMN.😁

For Sally: 🎖️⭐🏆💯

tigerpaws said: Yes, it certainly is a forget-me-not. Boy was I wrong, I didn't think the leaves looked like FMN. My advice would be to destroy it unless you want FNS's to be coming up everywhere.

It is inside for the winter, my gardens are full of volunteers, they can do as they please.

Well... definitely boraginaceae
Montana has a lot of borage sp.
https://fieldguide.mt.gov/disp...

thanks, Zoe

stone said: Well... definitely boraginaceae
Montana has a lot of borage sp.
https://fieldguide.mt.gov/disp...

This came from dirt in a domestic garden, it is not a wild sample I am sure.

Love my indoor happy flowers, so fun in the winter

Montanatulip said: This came from dirt in a domestic garden, it is not a wild sample I am sure.

Plenty of hackelia comes up in the garden soil around here...
Just being garden soil doesn't rule out surprise natives...

stone said: Plenty of hackelia comes up in the garden soil around here...
Just being garden soil doesn't rule out surprise natives...

I remember these in the garden where I got the soil, she planted all kinds of stuff there. But it may be native too, now we know what it is anyhow.

Had to look up hackelia. Never heard of it but glad I don't have it in the garden. There is so much that I consider weeds that keeps me busy trying to get rid of them.

tigerpaws said: Had to look up hackelia. Never heard of it but glad I don't have it in the garden. There is so much that I consider weeds that keeps me busy trying to get rid of them.

The photo of hackelia I find is not what I have, the flowers on mine are low into the plant and the leaves are different too.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Montana, what you have is definitely a forget-me-not. At first I didn't think it was a FMN but now that it is flowering there is no doubt as to what it is. I used to love them as a kid. They would grow wild in the moist ditches and always had a nice fragrance. Somehow the FMNs spread from the ditches to my garden and are now popping up everywhere. I can't keep up with trying to control them. And, strange thing, in my garden the flowers have no fragrance. I wish I could get rid of them all as well as all the Johnny-jump-ups (pansies) that are sprouting all over.

From the picture I saw when I looked up hackelia that is not at all looking like your plant. It said that hackelia belongs to the borage family. Only borage I am familiar with has blue flowers which the bees love and the leaves are used as an herb.

tigerpaws said: Montana, what you have is definitely a forget-me-not. At first I didn't think it was a FMN but now that it is flowering there is no doubt as to what it is. I used to love them as a kid. They would grow wild in the moist ditches and always had a nice fragrance. Somehow the FMNs spread from the ditches to my garden and are now popping up everywhere. I can't keep up with trying to control them. And, strange thing, in my garden the flowers have no fragrance. I wish I could get rid of them all as well as all the Johnny-jump-ups (pansies) that are sprouting all over.

From the picture I saw when I looked up hackelia that is not at all looking like your plant. It said that hackelia belongs to the borage family. Only borage I am familiar with has blue flowers which the bees love and the leaves are used as an herb.

Everyone's flower is someone's weed as the old saying goes. I have Johnny Jump ups all over my place and I love them, but they would be hard to eradicate. I made the mistake of planting oxeye daisies in my iris garden so now I have no more petunias or poppies. The older I get, the more I just enjoy them. Well, there is the weed wacker when they try to overcome the iris blooms.

Such a delicate and beautiful little flowering plant. I am so glad I rescued it from the frost and brought it inside to watch become whatever it is. The flowers have a slight lavender hue that I can't get to show in the photo. I hope it blooms all winter. I manged to get a photo showing the pretty blue color, hint, turn off the grow light.




Still going crazy in the sunroom