A monthly plant presented with characteristics that may be used to key the plant in any regional plant manual. Enter your guess and if correct your name will be “engraved in gold” the next month – listed on the site home page.
November’s Mystery Plant is a native perennial that grows in wet areas and reaches 2 to 5 feet in late summer. Stiff four-angled stems are topped by a bloom of many pencil-like flower spikes branching upwards, like the arms of a candelabra. Individual flower spikes have a ring of blue-purple flowers blooming from the bottom up. Leaves are opposite, lanceolate, and coarsely-toothed.
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