Name this plant!

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My son and I were out clearing an old trail in hopes of finding some private river access... and we did find it!

Along the way we came across this plant... don't ask me why, but we cut it down and smelled it. And man, it smells great! I was curious what it is?

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I am pretty sure this is fennel. I would need to smell it to confirm. It could be dill. Either way it is not WATER HEMLOCK which is a poisonous semi-look-alike to dill and fennel.
 
I am pretty sure this is fennel. I would need to smell it to confirm. It could be dill. Either way it is not WATER HEMLOCK which is a poisonous semi-look-alike to dill and fennel.

Thanks, wow they look pretty similar. I don't see fennel for years, but dill grows here nearly everywere. :)

Tomas
 
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I don't mean to hijack your thread, but it looks like you got your answer. So I was wondering if you guys could help me out on some plant identification.

All of these are in CT and around a small pond, where I found cattail, mullen, and milkweed, and some OXeye daisy. If that helps.

#1 pretty tall about 4-7 feet
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#2 Had a white stem real thorny, no flowers or fruit that I saw.
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#3 I think is "Jewel Weed" not sure, it was about 4-6 feet tall
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#4 Could be "Summer Sweet" about 4-6 feet tall

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#1 is Thistle

#2 is black Raspberry, but there fruiting season has been over for a few weeks now.

Don't know the others.
 
# 1 dill, you could dig up the root and if there was a big bulb, well then fennel

#2 looks like bull thistle, if the pink flowers where more rounded amd button like, my words aren't the goodest but it would be musk thistle.

# 3 some kind of Berries. Raspberry type I would guess, probally not blackberry.

Dont know the flower but I have seen the yellow flowered one around here, Have alot of ideas to look up but don't want to waste your time and the name escapes me now.





Pat
 
#1 looks like Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare), Musk Thistle has nodding heads, at least according to Newcomb.

#2 Looks like Black Raspberry (Rubus occidentalis)

#3 is Jewelweed (Impatiens spp.) If it has a yellow flower it is Pale Jewelweed (I. pallida) and if it has orange flowers, it is Spotted Jewelweed (I. capensis). These are also called 'Touch-Me-Nots' because the mature seed pod 'explodes' when touched. Natural Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron spp.) remedy.

#4 looks like Canada Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis). The stem when large enough in diameter (not too often) is a usable hand drill for friction fire.

Doc
 

I reckon that might be Marijuana. (Cannabis sativa). :rolleyes:

From A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants, Arnold & Connie Krochmal, Times Books, 1984, ISBN# 0-8129-6336-9, pages 54-55:

"OTHER COMMON NAMES: cannabis, cherry, common hemp, gunjok, hashish, hemp, hempweed, Indian hemp, loco weed, maryjane, pot, neckweed.

PLANT DESCRIPTION: An annual growing to 16 feet in height. The male and female plants are usually separate. The leaves are alternate, narrow, long-stemmed, and large-toothed, with several leaflets.

WHERE IT GROWS: Old fields, cultivated fields, vacant city lots, and stream banks. Almost all parts of the United States.

WHAT IS HARVESTED AND WHEN: Flowering top of the female plant, in late summer; leaves, as they mature.

USES: Once used as a source of fiber for hemp, this common introduced plant is taken as a drug in several ways (smoking, etc.) to create a feeling of euphoria, well-being, and relaxation. The growth , possession, and use of the plant are illegal in many countries. In India, thugs would give their victims one form of the plant (hashish) so as to drug them before robbing them. The plant has been used medically to treat nervous disorders, tetanus, gonorrhea, depression, and bladder inflammation. One old family medical guide recommended it for discouraging masturbation. In Kentucky, a friend told us that when he was a youngster his neighbors who were too poor to buy bourbon would smoke a "reefer" of marijuana instead."

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DOC, under "uses" they forgot to add that is an important ingredient in some indigenous brownie recipes. :D
 
I reckon that might be Marijuana. (Cannabis sativa). :rolleyes:

From A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants, Arnold & Connie Krochmal, Times Books, 1984, ISBN# 0-8129-6336-9, pages 54-55:

"OTHER COMMON NAMES: cannabis, cherry, common hemp, gunjok, hashish, hemp, hempweed, Indian hemp, loco weed, maryjane, pot, neckweed.

PLANT DESCRIPTION: An annual growing to 16 feet in height. The male and female plants are usually separate. The leaves are alternate, narrow, long-stemmed, and large-toothed, with several leaflets.

WHERE IT GROWS: Old fields, cultivated fields, vacant city lots, and stream banks. Almost all parts of the United States.

WHAT IS HARVESTED AND WHEN: Flowering top of the female plant, in late summer; leaves, as they mature.

USES: Once used as a source of fiber for hemp, this common introduced plant is taken as a drug in several ways (smoking, etc.) to create a feeling of euphoria, well-being, and relaxation. The growth , possession, and use of the plant are illegal in many countries. In India, thugs would give their victims one form of the plant (hashish) so as to drug them before robbing them. The plant has been used medically to treat nervous disorders, tetanus, gonorrhea, depression, and bladder inflammation. One old family medical guide recommended it for discouraging masturbation. In Kentucky, a friend told us that when he was a youngster his neighbors who were too poor to buy bourbon would smoke a "reefer" of marijuana instead."

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that is hilarious. :D
 
DOC, under "uses" they forgot to add that is an important ingredient in some indigenous brownie recipes. :D

Chris, are you accusing me of being incomplete? :eek:

OK, then try this:

From The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America, François Couplan, Keats, 1998, ISBN# 0-87983-821-3, pages 64 & 65:

"CANNABACEAE

Cannabis sativa Hemp, Marijuana
Greek name of the plant.

Hemp was formerly much cultivated for the fibers obtained from the stem, which are used for making rope and cloth. It is now seldom grown for this purpose on our continent but rather illegally for the euphoric properties of its resin.

The young leaves are edible raw added to salads.

The resin of the female inflorescences contains tetrahydrocannabinol and similar substances and is strongly psychoactive.

It is also antispasmodic, analgesic and aperitive.

This resin is present in variable proportions depending on the cultivated strain and the climate: plants grown in temperate areas generally contain little resin, while those planted in warmer countries contain larger amounts of it.

Hemp has been cultivated for thousands of years in certain parts of Asia for its psychosoactive effects, and nowadays it is smoked or ingested in various ways (dried inflorescences - "buds" - hashish, oil, jam) on all continents of the world. Its use is frequently forbidden by law, although it is not physically addictive and is far less dangerous than coffee, alcohol or tobacco (each of which was prohibited at some point in history before becoming the source of a large, profitable industry).

Hemp seeds have been eaten since Antiquity. They are often roasted in Eastern Europe and Asia, but in America they are mainly used as birdfeed.

The seeds do not contain the active substances present in the resin, and thus do not have the same properties. They contain vitamin K and 30% of a drying oil, which is edible. This oil is used for culinary purposes in S. Russia and Asia. It is also employed in making soaps, varnishes and paints. It was formerly burned in oil lamps. Hemp is legally cultivated in fields in Switzerland for the oil extracted from the seeds."

Hemp fibers are used as an ecological building material."

Well, Chris, no mention of brownies yet! :confused:


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That is fennel for certain, naked. The stuff grows like a weed all over southern California, a product of Italian immigrants generations ago.
 
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