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(Cat) wrote:

In article ,
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 ;

Nightshade IS a beautiful woody vine & I let one get quite big for a year
or so, but when they started springing up all over the place I decided not
to encourage them. Spreads very aggressively here. But leaves, flowers, &
fruit are quite pretty, & it's no more "deadly" than any number of
commonly gardened plants, could even be eaten if first well cooked. Here's
my article "Deadly Nightshade should be renamed Lovely Nightshade":
http://www.paghat.com/nightshade.html

-paghat the ratgirl

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"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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