Wooferhound
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Post by Wooferhound on Apr 13, 2017 10:54:52 GMT -5
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 13, 2017 10:59:54 GMT -5
Nice photos thanks for sharing! Those tree growth,I have seen in MT and ND too-some people do craft work with them....
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Post by wigglinrocks on Apr 13, 2017 11:04:40 GMT -5
Thanks for taking us along for the hike . Nice country .
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 13, 2017 16:05:13 GMT -5
Plants are common mullein. Round these parts, it's affectionately known as "Cowboy Toilet Paper". Has yellow flowers clustered on stalks and birds like doves and goldfinches love the little black peppery seeds. Indians used the seeds pounded and dissolved in water to narcotize/paralize fish.....Mel
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Apr 13, 2017 22:50:48 GMT -5
Thanks for the trip coverage, always enjoy exploring abandoned roads here too.
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Post by fantastic5 on Apr 13, 2017 23:43:37 GMT -5
Plants are common mullein. Round these parts, it's affectionately known as "Cowboy Toilet Paper". Has yellow flowers clustered on stalks and birds like doves and goldfinches love the little black peppery seeds. Indians used the seeds pounded and dissolved in water to narcotize/paralize fish.....Mel I learned the plant as Lambs Ear here in Tennessee. When i Google mullen, i found a lot of information about the two. Seems like they are often confused. Their habitats overlap, but it appears that Lambs ear can't handle as much heat as mullen.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Apr 14, 2017 2:19:49 GMT -5
Plants are common mullein. Round these parts, it's affectionately known as "Cowboy Toilet Paper". Has yellow flowers clustered on stalks and birds like doves and goldfinches love the little black peppery seeds. Indians used the seeds pounded and dissolved in water to narcotize/paralize fish.....Mel I learned the plant as Lambs Ear here in Tennessee. When i Google mullen, i found a lot of information about the two. Seems like they are often confused. Their habitats overlap, but it appears that Lambs ear can't handle as much heat as mullen. We've always called it Lamb's Ear next door in KY also. Maybe I've confused the two before. Very pretty with a heavy dew.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 14, 2017 9:03:30 GMT -5
Hmmm, You may be right but Lambs Ear I'm familiar with from gardens is a clumping, multi rosette plant with smaller leaves while Mullein tends to be big, solitary rosettes. That plus the fact that Lambs Ear is an escaped, non native, ornamental is why I went with mullein. I'll admit that the pictured example does look hairier that our Texas plants. Until they bolt and bloom, they look a lot alike, so you may be correct because I don't know what ornamentals have naturalized in the area we're talking about. We had both back in Commiefornia but the Lamb's Ear was not naturalized in the wild....Mel
PS: Odd that comment about Lamb's Ear not tolerating heat. We had it all over our garden in Ojai, CA ( the lambs ear with the purple sage like flowers) and summer temps there were super hot, 110-114 a lot of the time. Plants were so aggressive we had to cut them back all the time.
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Post by fantastic5 on Apr 14, 2017 9:34:20 GMT -5
PS: Odd that comment about Lamb's Ear not tolerating heat. We had it all over our garden in Ojai, CA ( the lambs ear with the purple sage like flowers) and summer temps there were super hot, 110-114 a lot of the time. Plants were so aggressive we had to cut them back all the time. I don't know Mel, Google said they don't tolerate the heat and we all know Google is never wrong and always trumps practical experience. Now I sound like my kids Actually, I am always trying to learn about local plants. I had never heard about Mullen before, so I am so glad you mentioned it, it gives me the chance to learn more, observe more and try to figure out what we have around here (likely some of each). I am only about 90 minutes from @wooferhoud so my plants are likely to be very similar. Going to have to pay more attention to what they look like when they bloom. And I do know that the nursery variety of Lambs Ear doesn't look like what I was told was Lambs Ear in the woods. So probably Mullen.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 14, 2017 12:22:31 GMT -5
Both are pretty plants but the Mullein gets big dry stalks after it's bloomed out and it's pretty unsightly. The purple sage look of the lamb's ears is really nice. Mullein is popular with birds and bugs though. It's all over both our lots here on the ranch.
And who doesn't trust Google? They're always right,no? *L*....Mel
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