It almost makes me hope they can't ID it....
but I did want to give credit where it was due
Years ago I purchased a lovely blue perennial verbena. It was living quite happily in a large hanging basket. In the spring of the 3rd year, it started growing like gangbusters, but 1/3 of the plant started blooming white. Knowing next to nothing about it I had a friend from a nursery look at it...said it was a sport....so I very carefully weighted the stem and got it to root. The friend got in touch with a grower she knew....gonna be a big deal...talked patent...etc. Long and short of it....The friend sent the plant to the grower....who was going to handle the details....said the plant had to grow for a couple years to make sure it wasn't a fluke.....the friend would pass along info to me and then a couple years later she said the grower called her....the plant died...game over. The next year a pretty white verbena started showing up in our local nurseries....the friend came into a windfall...enough money for her to leave the nursery and go back to school...of course she never said where the money came from, but another lady at the nursery said the friend had developed a new cultivar of verbena.....funny....i never saw her again. So now, I just call my odd plants what ever I like and taxonomy be darned.....
