It’s an annual in that the rootstock stays alive, though everything aboveground dies as the weather cools. It starts to sprout in mid-summer, usually around the start of Monsoon. It blooms promiscuously in the evening, the flowers closing as the day heats up. It’s very common here and I can’t seem to nail down what it is called.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
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Looks like a miniature hibiscus vine but then I am no expert on plants other than at killing them, no green thumb genes at all. 😉
I believe that is called Marvel of Peru.
Looks like evening primrose??
They are wild Four O’Clocks.
I’d say both Deb and Charlotte called it right – though by different names. Marvel of Peru is in the 4 o’clock family.
Colorado Four O’clock
It’s an annual in that the rootstock stays alive, though everything aboveground dies as the weather cools.
Nope, that would be a perennial. With an annual the whole plant dies………
I thought an annual had to reseed every year. No botanist, clearly.
Annuals die off completely and have to re-grow from seed every year.
Perennials come back from the same rootstock.
And yes, that used to confuse the hell out of me too. Especially since there are plants that only grow as annuals in my climate that are perennials in warmer climates!
No clue on the flowers, but it looks like other folks figured it out!
Yup. That link to Colorado Four O’clock looks exactly like it.
Thanks, guys!