Wild Harvest Tour Special Edition
Just to let you all know, the next few blog posts will be covering things that were exclusively seen on the Wild Harvest Tour, these are plants found in the woods of North Carolina. Some of these plants are good, some are bad but they are things you need to know about. I hope you enjoy the focused content folks.
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Sorry for the still image from the YouTube video, it seems I failed to take a picture of it during the tour.
Common Name: Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Other Common Names: Pussytoes, Plantain-Leaved Everlasting, Ladies Tobacco, Indian Tobacco, Mouseear.
Botanical Family: Asteraceae (The Aster Family)
Botanical Latin Name: Antennaria plantaginifolia
Description & Habitat: Although the specimen identified for this post was found in a Mesic forest near a dirt road and that forest was a border between Scrub Oak, Sourwood and Loblolly Pines typically, this plant will be found in dry open woodlands, meadows and rocky places. It prefers dry, acidic sandy or rocky poor soils and likes dry woodlands with light dappled shade. This plant is best identified by its spoon shaped leaves which resemble Plantain (Plantago major). The leaves of this plant also bear light white fuzz on them as is seen in the photograph.
When & What to Harvest: The leaves are used for a number of ailments while there is no noted best time to harvest them given that this plant is herbaceous it might be best to harvest in the late spring into summer.
Poisonous Lookalikes: None known.
Related Edible Species: The Pussytoes family is noted to be hard to tell apart with the exception of Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes.
Recipe: I could not find a recipe for this one in the conventional sense, just some suggestions for how to use it medicinally. For instance boiling the foliage of this plant in milk is a supposed folk remedy for Diarrhea and Dysentery. A team made of the leaves supposedly helps with lung ailments, and the leaves supposedly can be poultice on bruises, sprains, boils and swellings to relieve discomfort and possibly accelerate healing.
Additional Information: (If applicable)
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/antennaria-plantaginifolia/
With all that garden goodness covered this is the part of the blog where I have to advertise for the Fayetteville City Market. Now I know you readers probably don’t much like advertisements, but my booth at the City Market helps to cover the costs of running the test garden and literally maintains the Research & Development budget that is used to bring you the information that has made up the backbone of this blog. In addition to being able to process card payments we now take CashApp payments so your payment options for my product have tripled. With that said; if you want to get some GMO-free, Organic fruit, herbs, flowers and perennials, come on down to the Fayetteville City Market on 325 Maxwell Street in downtown Fayetteville between the hours of 9:00 am and 1:00 pm on Saturdays. Even in bad weather the market goes on though you might have to look for me under the ‘arches’ of the Transportation Museum’s front entryway.
For those of you wondering what plants are going to be at the market this weekend here is the list.
Summer Vegetable Plants (NEW!)
Tomato – Sweet 100
Tomato – Lemon Boy
Tomato – Black Krim
Tomato – Paul Robeson
Tomato – Cherokee Purple
Tomato – Brandywine, Suddeth’s Strain
Pepper – Cayenne
Pepper – Habanero
Pepper – Ghost
Herbs (New!)
Bee Balm
Garden Plants
Lamb’s Ear
Yucca
Coming Soon:
American Aloe
Cutleaf Coneflower
Spineless Prickly Pear
How to stay in Contact with Us!
Our group’s online presence has migrated to Nextdoor.com. All you need to keep up with all our activities is to have a Nextdoor account and to look for the ‘Sustainable Neighbors of Fayetteville’ group and ask to join! You don’t have to live in Fayetteville to join us! Feel free to ask all your garden questions of our knowledgeable membership and post your cool garden pictures.
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