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General Forestry => Tree, Plant and Wood I.D. => Topic started by: Furby on June 10, 2007, 09:06:35 PM
What these are?
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I am thinking wintercress or yellow rocket. Genus Barbarea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_cress
Nice pics, Furby :).
Sure looks like it. I've never seen it before. The flower, seed pods and leaves remind me of mustard.
Last summer I saw a whole host of salt marsh plants I don't see in my books. Some quite colorful with some unique looking anatomy.
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/03-043.htm
We have a wild turnip around here that is in that genus.
Quote from: SwampDonkey on June 11, 2007, 06:44:19 AM
The flower, seed pods and leaves remind me of mustard.
Good observation - they're in the same family!
The seeds sure reminded me of mustard seeds, so I was thinking along those lines.
I found these when my kid sister and I went up to the lake to open up several weeks back.
It took us a few minutes to figure out what was throwing seeds at us.
It didn't take much for the seed pods to pop open and throw the seeds several feet.
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You still have time to collect a bunch of those proto-mustard seeds, dry them, and concoct a special proto-mustard sauce for the Pig Roast :).
Nope, they were all done when we were up there Memorial Day weekend.