[NatureNS] Bluebells (Mertensia) in NS

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Could it be comfrey (symphytum officinale)?  Different family, but fits =
your description.
Jane

From: Larry Ayers=20
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 4:58 PM
To: NatureNS=20
Subject: [NatureNS] Bluebells (Mertensia) in NS

Hello -- I'm an American staying in the Round Hill area this summer, and =
I've been trying to identify the native and alien plants in the =
neighborhood. Lots of aliens in the Annapolis Valley!=20

There's a road ditch in front of a vacant house on Hwy. 201 which =
harbors a profuse growth of a plant which has flowers very like those of =
the Eastern Bluebell, Mertensia virginica. It's a taller plant with =
rough-hairy lanceolate leaves and I'm wondering if it might be Mertensia =
paniculata, the Tall Bluebell. That species grows as far east as Quebec =
and could have been brought to NS as a garden plant, perhaps.

Has anyone seen these?

Larry Ayers 
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<DIV dir=3Dltr>Hello -- I'm an American staying in the Round Hill area =
this=20
summer, and I've been trying to identify the native and alien plants in =
the=20
neighborhood. Lots of aliens in the Annapolis Valley!=20
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<DIV>There's a road ditch in front of a vacant house on Hwy. 201 which =
harbors a=20
profuse growth of a plant which has flowers very like those of the =
Eastern=20
Bluebell, Mertensia virginica. It's a taller plant with rough-hairy =
lanceolate=20
leaves and I'm wondering if it might be Mertensia paniculata, the Tall =
Bluebell.=20
That species grows as far east as Quebec and could have been brought to =
NS as a=20
garden plant, perhaps.</DIV>
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<DIV>Has anyone seen these?</DIV>
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