Flowers-“squared”

Appropriate from an applied mathematician, no?
This is in our garden and I don’t know what it is. I have submitted it for identification, though I do have one thought to investigate. I liked how some of the background objects helped frame the flower head.

Clare’s first day of retirement was wonderful. She got up this morning at the time she was at her desk yesterday. What’s to get used to? is how she seems to feel!

People who regularly work with flowers will probably recognize this as Verbena. Taxonomically, it is “Glandularia canadensis”; species page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/taxpage/0/0/79/binomial/Glandularia%20canadensis.html

From Missouri Botanical Garden, http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=287505&isprofile=0& » “For many years, Glandularia canadensis was known as ‘Verbena canadensis.’ Many prestigious authorities (e.g., The Royal Horticultural Society) still list the plant as ‘Verbena canadensis.’ The revised edition of Steyermark's Flora of Missouri (Yatskievych and Turner) now lists the plant as Glandularia canadensis. Glandularia is considered by many authorities to be a genus that is separate and distinct from Verbena based upon a number of factors including plant morphology, chromosome number, style length, reproductive modes and ploidal levels (see Umber, The Genus Glandularia (Verbenaceae) in North America, 1979).”

One year ago (“Two-fer: Female ‘Macrocentrid’ on cone flower”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-08-01
Two years ago (“What sort of person am I?”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-08-01
(Note, I did finally finish World Without End!)

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[Rick Schies]

A beautiful photo. and its geometric shaping. Good luck to Clare, Happy Retirement

[Wendy]

Beautiful flowers and shot! How exciting for Clare! I could dream of that day!

[Ellen E]

I do love flowers in soft light - really enhances the colors

[Mags]

@rhoing These look more like - http://namethatplant.net/plantdetail.shtml?plant=1599

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam How about this one, which was ID’ed by my plant expert: https://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-09-06

Also, Glandularia aristigera grows wild only in Georgia and the Carolinas. We probably planted this one, but it was more likely to have been a native, rather than a non-native, species.

[Mags]

@rhoing Could be. Seems things are creeping up and/or creeping down. I had one that was supposed to be in Florida last week and now it's here. Do they really know for sure?