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(paghat) wrote:

This foot-wide spreading groundcovery clump of foliage is an edible herb,
but which one:

http://www.paghat.com/images/tasty_apr.jpg

The woman I got it from said it's "variegated cress" but I can't find a
garden cress species with such ornate serated leaves. It has an almost
peppery taste.

-paghat the ratgirl

This newsgroup rarely fails to have SOMEone who recognizes things, & I
really thought the "tasty_apr.jpg" was going to turn out to be something
common lots of folks recognized. *sniff* i still don't know what it is.

Though I thought THAT one was likely something common, the following one I
suspect will be hard to recognize, so perhaps I'll be wrong again &
everyone will know what it is. Lucky me if so:

http://www.paghat.com/images/compani...enalia_apr.jpg

& a close-up of the teency light lilac flowers, three times life size:

http://www.paghat.com/images/compani...analia_apr.jpg

This was for all I knew a weed that was in a potted Lachenalia
purpureo-caerulea, & since the lachenalia has been somewhat boring & never
yet bloomed, I kept the weed as adding a bit of interest to the pot. It's
been growng in the pot for a full year & always looked like a fern; this
is the first its bloomed. It's in a full bright south-facing sunny window
& looks like the sort of thing that'd shrivel up in so much sun but it
keeps on chugging.

Anyhow, it's probably a longshot, but whether it's a weed or herb, thought
I'd take a chance someone here would recognize it.

And speaking of lachanalias, the L. splendida which Cereiod identified now
has it's own webpage, with credit to Cereiod for helping out:
http://www.paghat.com/lachenalia.html

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"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"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

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In article ,
(paghat) wrote:

This foot-wide spreading groundcovery clump of foliage is an edible herb,
but which one:

http://www.paghat.com/images/tasty_apr.jpg


The picture looks like aegopodium podagraria, except it is purple
where goutweed is just green and white. Goutweed is edible, though I
never really tried it.

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:07:29 -0700, (paghat)
wrote:

Though I thought THAT one was likely something common, the following one I
suspect will be hard to recognize, so perhaps I'll be wrong again &
everyone will know what it is. Lucky me if so:

http://www.paghat.com/images/compani...enalia_apr.jpg

& a close-up of the teency light lilac flowers, three times life size:

http://www.paghat.com/images/compani...analia_apr.jpg


It's an Erodium. I don't know the species

In article , Garrapata
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:07:29 -0700, (paghat)
wrote:

Though I thought THAT one was likely something common, the following one I
suspect will be hard to recognize, so perhaps I'll be wrong again &
everyone will know what it is. Lucky me if so:

http://www.paghat.com/images/compani...enalia_apr.jpg

& a close-up of the teency light lilac flowers, three times life size:

http://www.paghat.com/images/compani...analia_apr.jpg


It's an Erodium. I don't know the species

Thanks much! Just looked up which would be the most common weed of that
genus here, & it's Erodium cicutarium. Checked some pictures of it, &
that's the critter. Not common in our damp area, but elsewhere in the
state, in prairie grasslands & grazing lands, extremely common. Invasive &
harmful in some places, but I still kind of like it in the flower pot.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"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"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

My server wouldn't open it, but could it be watercress? It's peppery and
almost bitter.

In article ,
(Snowfeet1) wrote:

My server wouldn't open it, but could it be watercress? It's peppery and
almost bitter.

Sorry, I took down the temporary jpg files after they'd been identified by
folks in this ng.
One was a wild erodium, an invasive weed, now with its own webpage:
http://www.paghat.com/erodiumcicutarium.html
& the other was water parsley, which also now has a webpage:
http://www.paghat.com/waterparsley.html

There've been probably less than a dozen times I've asked this ng if they
recognized some plant I didn't know what was, & maybe only once or twice
nobody knew. Almost always someone knows. Which is just cool.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"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"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/