On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, mleblanca wrote:



It might help to know where you saw these plants: country, state etc.

Yea, I should have made that clearer. Wildman Steve Brill only gives tours
in the NYC area. These are from Prospect Park. And the date is in the URL,
which means these were taken on July 1st.

Perhaps if you repost the images around that time it will help (especially with
#1).

I think that the pokeweed and Hibiscus IDs are reliable.

The first one hasn't been IDed properly yet, and the other one with
pinnately compound leaves is that is not slippery elm (and not a sumac,
either, in my opinion) remained to be IDed.

Right, Pat. It isn't sumac/Rhus, not enough leaflets, only 5. Sumac
has at least 9 leaflets.



I'm thinking that one is not a woody plant at all, but rather an herb.
Possibly even something like tickseed sunflower -- a common name for
several species of large Bidens -- too bad we have no sign of flowers or
even buds. (But this is a rather wild guess...)

Looking at the leaves in the lower right hand corner, they look rather
mustard-like,
but without flowers and/or seeds it is difficult to be sure.
They look rather "cress-like". Do you remember any flowers, Don?
color, # of petals?

Emilie

Were these plants all supposed to be edible or in some other way useful?

--
Pat in Plymouth MI

"Vegetables are like bombs packed tight with all kinds of important
nutrients..." --Largo Potter, Valkyria Chronicles

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