1. Have an excuse to go outside.
2. Acquire survival knowledge in case of the zombie apocalypse.
3. Learn some new facts to impress teenagers with.
After the workshop was over, I hiked around the area a bit, and found some flowering plants that I was not familiar with. I took some pictures and posted them on a naturalist website.
One of the plants was ID'd as "Fringed Puccoon". That is a fun name. It doesn't sound like a plant name; it sounds like an insult in a Shakesperean play: Out of my sight, thou unworthy fringed puccoon! Or, something a pirate would say: Avast, ye fringed puccoon! Hand over ye gold doubloons and walk the plank!
But it's really just a sweet little yellow flower:
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| Fringed puccoon |
Another favorite one is crowpoison. When I first learned the name, I had an image of some poor unfortunate crow giving it a try, falling deathly ill, and then croaking a deathbed warning to the other crows before expiring: Avoid the white flowers! Stay away! Beware!
In the foraging class, we did learn that it is toxic and not to mistake it for wild onion.
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| Crowpoison |
I do like this little flower- seeing it blooming means that spring is coming.
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