Trouble posting pics

[TheSeedObsesser]

So Lucky, love your Spanish Flag!

That Christmas Cactus looks nice too Carol! If you use it as your avatar I would hold off until full bloom and take another picture.

 

[so lucky]

So Lucky, love your Spanish Flag!

That Christmas Cactus looks nice too Carol! If you use it as your avatar I would hold off until full bloom and take another picture.

Spanish flag?

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

If I'm right that's what your pretty looking flower is, I'm sure that there are alternative names...

I always remember them because of how the flower buds in the center of the floret are kind of square-shaped. They have many different colors.

 

[Smart Red]

Spanish Flag, (AKA) Firecracker Vine (AKA) Ipomoea lobata is a vine related to morning glories and has a trumpet-like flower.

The flower in your picture is of a Lantana as is the photo So Lucky posted. Lantana is a genus of about 150 species of perennials in the Verbena family. Its aromatic flower clusters (called umbels) are a mix of red, orange, yellow, or other colored florets that typically change color as they mature on a mounding plant that grows 3 feet tall and 3 feet wide.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Thanks for the extra tidbit of information, Smart Red. Must have mixed something that I read somewhere up. :/

Although why did the Lantana come up as a result when I googled "pictures of Spanish Flag flowers?" Kind of confused myself now.

 

[Smart Red]

Perhaps there is a variety of Lantana named Spanish Flag. I googled Spanish Flag plants and you googled pictures of Spanish Flag flowers. It could be we are both correct in the name if not the genus.

 

[thistlebloom]

I've noticed that sometimes when I google an image there will be other images included that are close, but not the specific thing I was looking for.