>>341307I thought it might be a Zinnia as well but I know what Zinnias look like and they tend to have 50+ petals in bloom and look like a firework explosion so I know it couldn't be a Zinnia. I'm extremely curious as to why the parent plant produced a completely different flower/species, etc, going by the buds and leaf shapes. The second flower on the plant of which I grew from the seed is blooming so I will see in a few days if the first bloom (seen here:
>>341179 is an anomaly or perhaps it will look the same as the second flower).
If you look at
>>341175, in the top middle is a white beam and to the right is a hose faucet. If you move slightly to the right, past the shrink-wrapped pallet with 7 or 8 brown boxes, just to the right of that is the flowerhead with the dying bloom (just to the left of a stem that goes above the top of the picture) that I deadheaded (I snipped off the top stem with my fingernails, put the flower in my pocket, let it dry for a week then I planted the seeds. I made sure to check what a Scabiosa seed looks like and indeed it loooked exactly like one, not a Zinnia seed (I am also familiar with those). I have no idea why I got a completely different plant from the parent!
Thanks for the lead though... That is a different Zinnia I am not familiar with and it does look sort of similar to my unknown plant/flowers.
Also, if it helps anybody else to get a possible ID, I am in Zone 10A (Southern California). I tried 5 or 6 'flower identification tools' and came up with nothing. It has about 15 petals, and the inside looks like a Marigold bloom (Tiger Eyes variety). I went to Wal Mart earlier and looked at the 200+ varieties of Burpee seeds on the packages and not one of them matched my unknown flower so hopefully someone out there knows what it is and how a parent Scabiosa plant produced this result.
