Solved ID - tall white & spiky - Lysimachia ephemerum

What have you done with your label Kristen? I don't know what it is but I like the form - just too big for my garden,
Jenny

 

Quite. Absolutely no idea what it is, or where it came from. Might be a weed for all I know!

Labels get lost of course, so I log everything I buy (easier if it is mailorder as I just cut & paste from the confirmation email into my "Plants I bought" file

Then on my phone I keep a list of the plants in the beds as I plant them, and I also log the number of "strides" from the end of the bed [nearest the house, other systems apply for cross-ways beds ]

For example: my shrubbery has beds on either side of the path, and those beds are bisected by a cross-ways path in the middle, so there are 4 beds arranged in sort of quadrants. The path runs North-South so the plants in the beds are logged in my phone with NW01 (which is one stride from the house end of the North West quadrant bed). Thus the list, sorted by NE01, NE02, ... NW01, NW02, ... SW98, SW99 [It ain't THAT long!!], is the in walking-order, so I can just check my phone if I want to know exactly what variety anything is ...

... but I have some NoIDs that I want to clarify, and add to "The List" so as and when they come into flower I'm posting photos here for ID'ing ...

... and it gives you guys something to do, eh?!!

 

I presumably thought it was Dwarf, which is why I planted it at the front of the bed!!!!

 

Would it be lysimachia clethroides?

 

Very warm.
Not Lysimachia clethroides...it has swans neck spikes of small white flowers.
It looks like Lysimachia ephemerum.
Note the blueish leaf colour!


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Lysimachia ephemerum&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ahfNU7jSOKjE7Aac8IH4DA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=967

 

Nope, I have that in the garden and the "Noses" are definitely turned over, as per you pic. whereas the NoID is straight-up-and-spiky. I'll compare the individual flowers later to see if they are similar, or not, as it might narrow the family.

 

That looks like it thanks.

Its not in my seed lists ... but that isn't perfect of course - could have been a gift, or mislabelled seed packet

 

And the absence of a swan neck.

Now, why can't someone breed one with blue leaves and a swan neck?

 

is it just me that thinks that "Blue leaves swan neck" sounds like "Eats shoots and leaves"?!!