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Post by redneckpackrat on Mar 14, 2020 10:18:31 GMT -6
Grows volunteer up on top of the divide in SW Gillespie Co., Tex. at about 2300' elevation.
(It's a "view image" link on FB. If it's showing broken link, I'll try to find another place to stick a pic to link to. If it DOES show up, I've got a couple more I want to confirm/identify.)
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Post by redneckpackrat on Mar 14, 2020 10:29:03 GMT -6
Another, different plant.... both these look familiar, like I've heard descriptions of them, someplace in the story, but I don't wanna go using something the wrong way. Might be counterproductive.
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Post by FOTH on Mar 14, 2020 20:41:37 GMT -6
The first one looks to be a thistle of some type, the second I do not know! How large are its leaves? I see some dry stalks in there, does it send up a stalk later in the year with flowers?
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Post by redneckpackrat on Mar 14, 2020 21:19:57 GMT -6
The first one I've tentatively identified as milk thistle. The second, I didn't notice until this spring (was home dying from typhus last year when it was at this stage!) Yes, it is a perennial (or at least a biennial) because that is its last year's growth.
I didn't include this one, because of waiting to see if the pics were passing through (clear that they are) but I'm pretty dang sure I've got it positively identified as mullein.
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Post by redneckpackrat on Mar 14, 2020 21:21:13 GMT -6
The first one looks to be a thistle of some type, the second I do not know! How large are its leaves? I see some dry stalks in there, does it send up a stalk later in the year with flowers? The 2nd one has leaves about the size of healthy mint, but either my smeller was on strike or it has no scent to it, even when broken and crushed.
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Post by FOTH on Mar 15, 2020 14:52:34 GMT -6
The first one I've tentatively identified as milk thistle. The second, I didn't notice until this spring (was home dying from typhus last year when it was at this stage!) Yes, it is a perennial (or at least a biennial) because that is its last year's growth.
I didn't include this one, because of waiting to see if the pics were passing through (clear that they are) but I'm pretty dang sure I've got it positively identified as mullein.
That one is definitely mullein! Good for breathing as steam for lung troubles, so a great one to have around. The minty one I still am not sure on, kind of looks like lemon balm or catnip, but should have a strong smell, if so. Are its stems square? That is a pretty positive identifier for the mint family. Typhus? Where'd you pick that up?
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Post by redneckpackrat on Mar 21, 2020 14:32:01 GMT -6
Chris, the ER doc opined it came from one of our illustrious guest workers from the neighboring third world country. There was a cluster of like four or five cases in March/April of last year, all within 125 miles of me. It's not fun. When I told my wife I felt like feeding the buzzards, she knew I wasn't delirious, I just felt THAT bad. A two-week course of doxycycline and it was history. So now guess what my "fish" have on hand in the "fish doctoring" cabinet?
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