Question
Hello Mr. Alonzo,

Yesterday was the first I noticed shrimp-looking growths in our Drexel Hill, PA yard in the middle of the lawn.  I didn't know what they really were so I mowed them down and thought I was done with them.  They appeared again in the same place this morning and they are bigger this evening.  Flies seem to like them.  Initially I thought someone threw shrimp in the yard but no...they are growths.  I really don't know if I like them or not.  Any suggestions about what I should do?  They sort of skeve me but I am sure I can get over that.  Thanks for any reply you may wish to make.

Mel (Carmela) Patterson

Answer
Hi Mel,
Thanx for your question.  The shrimp plants I know of are either a yellow kind or an orange kind.  Here are links to the pictures.  Can you send a picture of yours?
thx,
Tom

http://www.cambridge2000.com/gallery/images/P6296730e.jpg   Justicia brandegeana
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies/plants/images/yellow_shrimp_plant.jpg  Pachystachys lutea