Identify This Yellow Flower?

Hi there, a girl at work really liked some flowers she saw but I'm having trouble finding out what they are called. I found an image that's close to what the flower looked like, except the ones we saw were about the size of a softball whereas these look much smaller. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

/dak



Post edited by: Dakkon, at: 2008/08/14 00:35

Dakkon welcome to the forum I know this flower... I just can't remember the name anymore.

Thankst for the welcome

A flower guy had told me that it was probably in the thistle family, but that it was small. The one I saw looked almost tropical it was so big, so I doubt it was a thistle :/

Post edited by: Dakkon, at: 2008/08/14 17:44

I tend to agree with your flower guy. This looks like a thistle to me as well. There are so very many kinds of thistles, and even more that are actually hybrids. They are a stunning flower of many shapes and sizes. All of them will reseed readily and invade the garden, but are well worth it if you like the variety of birds and insects they will draw into your garden. Some of them are stunningly beautiful as well. The one you show here looks like a beautiful hybrid thistle.

If you don't want them to reseed into your garden, be vigorous about deadheading. Otherwise enjoy them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistle

Alright, someone on another forum happened to know exactly what I was talking about. It's actually a variety of Dahlia, here's a purple one that they sent me a link to:



Post edited by: Sakura, at: 2008/08/20 07:57

That's the same flower?

On my screen somehow it doesn't look the same.... (too "organized" - in your initial photo the 'petals' look much more 'wild' and disorganized)

Yeah, this one is more of what I was looking for. The initial pic was just something I could find that was close to what I had seen but I guess it wasn't that close

Then Dakkon is right and your flower probably is from the Dahlia family

I believe that your yellow flower is a Centaurea macrocephala, the large-flowered yellow form of our annual bachelor's button.