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This is a very prolifferously self-seeding kind of a wild Perennial/Biennial. It may have other names, but "Corn Cockle" is the only one I know. The blooms are really a bright magenta and no matter where they are, they will catch your eye. The foliage is silvery gray and leggy, so it sets off the flowers nicely.
This plant makes oodles of seeds. See all the pods in the picture? The seeds and new plantlets come up in late summer/Fall and live through the winter and then grow and bloom in the Spring, pretty much like "Forget-Me-Nots. They are easy to move around and don't mind it a bit.
You can cut back the old, bloomed out plants in late Fall, but do not pull them up, as you will pull up all the new plantlets growing at the base of the Momma plant.
The seeds are good sized, sort of like celery seed.
Gita
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