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Watercress: Ancient Flavor
Watercress is an escaped non-native found througout most of North America Florida is the Winter Watercress Capital of the U.S. Leaf shape can vary Nasturtium officinale (nas-STUR-shum oh-fis-in-AY-lee...
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Corn Poppy
The Memorial Poppy, Papaver rhoeas (Yes, I, too, am a veteran thus on this Memorial Day let us think of friends and relatives and everyone’s loved ones who did not come home alive. More than a century...
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Chickweed Chic
Chickweed Thrives in Cooler Weather. Photo by Green Deane Chickweed Connoisseurs You never know where you’ll find Chickweed but locally you know when: Winter. When I owned a lawn it showed up...
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The Little Mustards
Little Mustards are seasonal like this Hairy Bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta. Photo by Green Deane Coronopus, Descurainia, Cardamine, Erucastrum and Sibara There are numerous little mustards that show...
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Galinsoga’s Gallant Soldiers
Galinsoga, “Gallent Soldiers” aka Quickweed grows up, it’s toxic look-alike crawls. Galinsoga ciliata: Quickweed is fast food Quickweed does not look edible or gallant. In fact, it looks like a daisy...
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American Lotus: Worth Getting Wet For
The lotus is the largest native blossom in North America. Photo by Green Deane More American than apple pie Nature fights back. Much of Florida is giving way to housing. For several years I passed a...
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A Rose Apple By Any Other Name
Fruits in the Syzygium genus come in make different shapes and sizes. The apple is in the Rose family but the Rose Apple is not though it can sometime taste like rose water… and watermelon… but not...
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Camachile
Camachili is closely relayed to the “Texas Ebony.” Camachile, Guamuchil Pithecellobium dulce I was teaching in an eclectic park one day when the visiting aunt of a student recognized a tree from back...
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Harvest Moonwort
Self-seeded Moon Plant in North Carolina forest. Photo by Green Deane It looks like a fake plant created for a low-budget space movie. It even has a good name: Lunaria annua, Annual Moon. It’s also...
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Sedum: Stonecrop
Sedum with mild flavored leaves. Photo by Green Deane Confessions of forager: In a general sense I have known for many years that “Stonecrops” were edible. I avoided them as they were usually...
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