Don't know yet!

There was a garden full of these at the local public library. I've left several photos for my botanist friend to ID!

And here it is: “Globe amaranth past its prime in an autumn garden”.

Here's a shot of the entire garden, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/imgs/paraman1/r/Amaranthaceae_Gomphrena_globosa_105874.html
And a close-up of an old inflorescence, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/imgs/paraman1/r/Amaranthaceae_Gomphrena_globosa_105883.html

Species page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Gomphrena_globosa&rank=binomial

1 year ago (“*My* [poor-man’s] stud-finders”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-11-12
2 years ago (“Kleinia grantii”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-11-12
3 years ago (“Six more days of red…”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-11-12
4 years ago (“When you suck at flash photography…”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-11-12

[ IMG_7238S12x8tmA :: f/11 :: 1/125" :: ISO-800 :: 60mm ]

[Jane Anderson]

These seem Christmas-like to me!

[GaryW]

Very pretty. Looks a lot like the crimson clover that blooms here in the South in very early spring.