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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 18:55:26 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 18:56:32 GMT -5
Might be easy for some but I haven't an idea. Stumbled upon this as I was out scouting today. Had to walk around it so thought it would be a good plant to post here.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 19:14:26 GMT -5
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Post by bushmaster on Oct 13, 2014 19:26:00 GMT -5
Golden Rod!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 19:39:33 GMT -5
Thats what I would have guessed but didn't know.
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Post by ridgecommander on Oct 13, 2014 19:40:03 GMT -5
Goldenrod. Fields loaded with the stuff around here.
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Post by Dutch on Oct 13, 2014 20:16:48 GMT -5
I read years ago that it is a preferred deer food in the spring.
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Post by wentzler on Oct 14, 2014 7:51:15 GMT -5
It is one of several golden rod subspecies. And deer are quite fond of the flower heads just before the open. I must one day post up a photo of a very hardy, diffusely branching woody stem yellow flowering plant I have growing on the the Two Achers. Deer will eat it in preference to anything in my garden, a fact which once recognized make it quite easy to tolerate a few in the 'mix'. They will eat it back to the stems and it just keeps going, too. I have not been able to find anything in any of my books close to it, nor my wife, hers. I suspect it is a ferinner. (foreigner)?
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Post by bowbum on Oct 21, 2014 16:37:53 GMT -5
It is one of several golden rod subspecies. And deer are quite fond of the flower heads just before the open. I must one day post up a photo of a very hardy, diffusely branching woody stem yellow flowering plant I have growing on the the Two Achers. Deer will eat it in preference to anything in my garden, a fact which once recognized make it quite easy to tolerate a few in the 'mix'. They will eat it back to the stems and it just keeps going, too. I have not been able to find anything in any of my books close to it, nor my wife, hers. I suspect it is a ferinner. (foreigner)? Ed what you describe sounds like wintercress, aka yellow rocket..... barbera vulgaris: I have the goldenrod, (with those serated, wide leaves), as "late goldenrod", solidago gigantea:
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Post by wentzler on Oct 22, 2014 4:31:49 GMT -5
Bob, any chance you could get a profile photo of the flower and the plant itself? I'm thinking the flowers on the plant here are larger, have larger petals, the branching 'limbs' apprent in your photo do have the correct color though...
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Post by wentzler on Oct 22, 2014 4:33:32 GMT -5
P.S. will try remember to take a photo of the one plant still flowering down at ground zero today. And, you do realize if you I.D. this thing for me..I', gonna need the name of your resource
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 4:50:28 GMT -5
Wintercress is a member of the genus Brassica (the mustards). Many of the mustards are readily eaten by deer. plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=BAVUGoldenrod (genus Solidago) is not a preferred deer food, but deer do feed on the young stems and leaves especially. It makes excellent wildlife cover for small game. www.illinoiswildflowers.info/wetland/plants/gt_goldenrod.htmMustards typically have the four-petalled flowers as shown in bowbum's photo. Also, goldenrod flowers occur in very dense clusters as opposed to mustards. The early goldenrod that blooms in June or July is Solidago juncea. Solidago gigantea blooms much later in August to September in most parts of PA. Goldenrod flowers are composite flowers (made up of a number of florets). Mustard flowers typically have four petals and are a simple flower.
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Post by bowbum on Oct 22, 2014 8:39:56 GMT -5
P.S. will try remember to take a photo of the one plant still flowering down at ground zero today. And, you do realize if you I.D. this thing for me..I', gonna need the name of your resource Ed, most, no - "all" of my flower ID pictures are from my collection of 2007 and 2008. When, I finished building my house and completed initial development of this property, I was totally lost for all-day consuming projects. (I wasn't married at the time) So I spent most of every day trekking this hill taking photos of trees, shrubs, vines and flowers and then trying to ID them. I "still" have a few that are marked "unidentified" but on the upside I have approximately 268 flowers that are photographed and identified to my satisfaction. John Skarbek and I were co-collaborators on many of the ID's. On a quick glance at the shelf above my computer, I see my main source of ID; "Newcomb's" Wildflower Guide, then Petersens' Wildflowers, then Steven Clemant and Carol Gracie's Wildflowers in the Field and Forest, Thomas Elias Field Guide and Natural History, Robert Hendrickson, (berries),and at least five different Audubon field guides. I also loaned a Pennsylvania Wildflowers paperback, out that I purchased at Leonard Harrison, that never came back. I also joined an on-line group at the University of British Columbia Botany that was very helpful and there are even more Internet sites that I used when the books weren't definitive enough or left some question. So, which was used for which is far beyond my memory capability Should you take a drive on some rainy day and end up here, or should we head south on rte 87, I will make a CD copy for you of the 268, (more or less), photos with the understanding that there may be as many wrong as there are right. Mine was a quest, not to claim expertise, but simply to have for my self better knowledge of the place I occupy. Now adays though I looked at a flower I've photographed dozens of times to get the right picture for ID .... and I can't recall what the hell it is and need to go to my files to find it again!
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Post by bowbum on Oct 22, 2014 9:21:13 GMT -5
Ed, we're headed out but I saw your email picture of the plant, (which was pretty beat up), and on a real quick look.....see if this, (also munched on), is it: Black mustard, brassica nigra:
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Post by wentzler on Oct 24, 2014 6:04:23 GMT -5
Bowbum, George, I believe that's it. Black Mustard. Is it indigenous? Thanks for making me one tidbit schmarter
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Post by dennyf on Oct 25, 2014 6:36:40 GMT -5
Goldenrod? Bleah!
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