New and unknown plant to me from da U.P. **SOLVED**

[Jeff]

Anyone have a clue what this might be? I have found it twice growing on the side of rocky trails where there is plenty of sun. It was blooming in mid July. The blooms are almost broccoli like.

[Texas Ranger]

hmmm, cannot see the leaves verry well, but


http://www.thejump.net/hunting/plant-id/french-mulberry.htm

[Don P]

It looks sorta like what we call a beautyberry but I didn't think they grow that far north, and the leafs all wrong.
Glad to help  ;D

[Tom]

Our American Beauty Berry has a woody stem and forms a large shrub.  Those stems look almost succulent.

Here is the link to a solved puzzle from 2001.

[Jeff]

I beleive this to be a wild flower. Its not woody at all.

Better view of stem and a leaf


Better view of the flower

[Jeff]

I've finally found it. It isnt even in my Audubon field guide.   Its in the goosefoot  family and its called "Strawberry Blite"  Chenopodium capitatum

[Tom]

You can Eat it too!! 8)

Edible Uses
Colouring; Fruit; Leaves; Seed.
Leaves - raw or cooked[27, 106]. Used like spinach[2], they are a good source of vitamins C and A[257]. The young leaves are best[85, 172, 183]. Poor quality[74]. The raw leaves have been used in salad mixtures[257], but should only be eaten in small quantities, see the notes above on toxicity.

Fruit - raw or cooked[2, 27, 172]. An insipid but sweet flavour[85], they can be added to salads[183]. The fruit is about 12mm in diameter[200].

A red food colouring can be obtained from the fruit[74, 99, 172, 183].

Seed - cooked. It can be ground into a meal and mixed with cereal flours in making bread etc[161, 172]. The seed is small and fiddly, it should be soaked in water overnight and thoroughly rinsed before it is used in order to remove any saponins.

[Jeff]

Apparently what we are looking at is not the flower but the fruit. 

[Dodgy Loner]

Well, I'm glad someone figured it out, even if ya had ta do da work yerself ;)

[SwampDonkey]

Not in my books either. Never seen anything like it before. The leaves are kinda goose foot shape I guess. 

Is it handy to a salt marsh? Sometimes some different plants grow in those places.