Latin Names: x
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: x
Edible: x
Other uses: x
Note: In the grass.
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| x (June) |
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| x (June) |
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| x (June) |
Friday, June 26, 2020
Unknown plant 5
Common Names: x
Latin Names: x
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: x
Edible: x
Other uses: x
Note: In the grass.
Latin Names: x
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: x
Edible: x
Other uses: x
Note: In the grass.
Unknown Plant 4
Common Names: x
Latin Names: x
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: x
Edible: x
Other uses: x
Note: In the grass.
Latin Names: x
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: x
Edible: x
Other uses: x
Note: In the grass.
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| x (June) |
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| x (June) |
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| x (June) |
Friday, June 12, 2020
American Beautyberry
Common Names: American beautyberry, French mulberry, sourbush, bunchberry, purple beauty-berry
Latin Names: Callicarpa americana
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: Native
Edible: A few berries can be eaten raw but they are very astringent. They can safely be eaten in jams, jellies, and wine. The root can make a tea.
Other uses: Various medicinal uses. Fresh crushed leaves are said to keep mosquitoes away. The whole plant if planted next to a house is said to help keep mosquitoes from the area. Birds and animals like the berries.
Note: Edge of the woods in front and back.
Latin Names: Callicarpa americana
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: Native
Edible: A few berries can be eaten raw but they are very astringent. They can safely be eaten in jams, jellies, and wine. The root can make a tea.
Other uses: Various medicinal uses. Fresh crushed leaves are said to keep mosquitoes away. The whole plant if planted next to a house is said to help keep mosquitoes from the area. Birds and animals like the berries.
Note: Edge of the woods in front and back.
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| American beautyberry (April) |
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| American beautyberry (April) |
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| American beautyberry (April) |
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| American beautyberry (June) |
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| American beautyberry (June) |
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| American beautyberry (June) |
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Stemless carline thistle
Common Names: Stemless carline thistle, dwarf carline thistle, silver thistle
Latin Names: Carlina acaulis
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: Native
Edible: Flowering head can be cooked as an artichoke substitute.
Other uses: Some medicinal uses of the root. It is said this can be used as a barometer since the head will close up when rain is coming or here. Apparently this works for both a live plant and a dried one!
Note: In the wet field in back but in the drier areas. Unsure of species (Carlina acanthifolia or Carlina acaulis or something else). Need to see flower.
Latin Names: Carlina acaulis
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: Native
Edible: Flowering head can be cooked as an artichoke substitute.
Other uses: Some medicinal uses of the root. It is said this can be used as a barometer since the head will close up when rain is coming or here. Apparently this works for both a live plant and a dried one!
Note: In the wet field in back but in the drier areas. Unsure of species (Carlina acanthifolia or Carlina acaulis or something else). Need to see flower.
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| Stemless carline thistle (June) |
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| Stemless carline thistle (June) |
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| Stemless carline thistle (June) |
Bogbutton
Common Names: Bogbutton, bog button,
small’s bog buttons, whitehead
bogbutton, hairy pipewort, hat-pins, bog bachelor’s buttons
Latin Names: Lachnocaulon anceps
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: Native
Description: Small diameter stems for
the flowers grow up to 18” tall. Small leaves at the base of the plant. The flower
is a dense cluster of small white to gray flowers that forms a ball.
Edible: No.
Other uses: None found.
Notes: In the wet field in back.
Blooms June-September.
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| Bogbutton (June) |
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| Bogbutton (June) |
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| Bogbutton (June) |
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| Bogbutton (June) |
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| Bogbutton (June) |
Orange Milkwort
Common Names: Orange milkwort,
yellow milkwort, bog cheetos, candyweed, red-hot poker, bog bachelor button
Latin Names: Polygala lutea
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: Native
Description: The plant grows up to 12”
tall. The leaves are around 1” long and thick. Flowers are orange and 0.5-1”
long.
Edible: No info found. Perhaps a tea can be made from the leaves. A relative
(polygala nana) has an edible root.
Other uses: Medicinal. Attracts
butterflies.
Notes: In the wet field in back and typically found in wet sandy soil, bogs,
and swamps. Blooms in June-July. Flowers turn yellow when dried. The Latin word
luteus is a saffron-yellow or yellow/orange. Online says this is a biennial so
that I shouldn’t see flowers the 2nd year. Found blooms the 2nd
year but different plants in a slightly different location. However, it also
says this is plant the likes fires it can only grow without competition. We’ve
mowed this area and just now are letting it go natural so it may disappear over
time.
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| Orange milkwort (June) |
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| Orange milkwort (June) |
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| Orange milkwort (June) |
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| Orange milkwort (April) |
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| Orange milkwort (April) |
Feather-stem Clubmoss
Common Names: Feather-stem clubmoss, harper's club-moss
Latin Names: Lycopodiella prostrata
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: Native
Edible: No
Other uses: The spores of lycopods are flammable and were used in fireworks and other flame-effects.
Note: In the wet field in back. Saw the plants after a week of major rain and the field was wet. The plants have disappeared within a few weeks as things dried out. I'm just seeing decomposed plants when the field is dry.
The genus of Lycopodiella is called bog mosses. Not sure if this is prostrata or possibly appressa. Need to watch over time.
Latin Names: Lycopodiella prostrata
Type: Herbaceous
Origin: Native
Edible: No
Other uses: The spores of lycopods are flammable and were used in fireworks and other flame-effects.
Note: In the wet field in back. Saw the plants after a week of major rain and the field was wet. The plants have disappeared within a few weeks as things dried out. I'm just seeing decomposed plants when the field is dry.
The genus of Lycopodiella is called bog mosses. Not sure if this is prostrata or possibly appressa. Need to watch over time.
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| Clubmoss (June) |
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| Clubmoss (June) |
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