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paghat wrote:
Thanks, that certainly looked like it, so I looked up the genus, &amp
instantly found that it was not Crispy Dock per se (an introduced invasive
pest plant) but is Rumex occidentalis, native of right here on Puget Sound
(actually, from Alaska to California), bigger & branchier than R. crispus,
but never aggressive, which explains why in three years this one has never
seeded itself anywhere as crispy dock would, though every year it is just
loaded with seeds.

Neat! [and much better news ;]

Granny Artemis agrees with you that it just looks like a weed & if I
hadn't been mowing around it, she wouldn't let it have its space. It still
strikes me as a beautiful & interesting plant, weed though it be.

Heh. It takes all kinds ; My mom thinks that I'm crazy to grow deadly
nightshade and bittersweet ;

I'm off to look up some more stuff about it. Looks like a useful plant --
native americans harvested it for food.

Hmmm. I'll have to try and hunt out my book about native american plant
foods tomorrow...

cheers!
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