My mystery plant is now starting to flower. I have a picture I was hoping to post, but don’t see a way to add it to this string. Hoping the person who identified the plant as a Zizia can contact me for the picture.

I am very sad to report that in spite of several Butterfly weed, a couple of Parsley plants and probably at lease a hundred blooms right now in my gardwn I have only seen one or two little white butterflies. I think it is because of people using insecticide. I do get a lot of bees though.

Zizia is a black swallowtail host plant… I want butterflies in my garden… so… I’ve made a bit of a study of which plants they raise their young on. I found zizia growing wild in town last year (or maybe the year before), and brought out a couple specimens to my garden… hasn’t increased yet…

Thank you. I have never heard of this plant. It still has not flowered, just keeps putting out smaller clusters of leaves as it grows. I wish I could send you a picture of the whole plant but it is packed in among other plants. I just looked and in the top growth it looks like the possibility that there is a bud forming rather than more new leaves. I will know when it blooms if it looks like the pictures of the plant I pulled up. The leaves definitely look the same. How did you know what it was?

Possible zizia… Really need photos that show more of the plant.