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Did You Know? This Is Mustard!

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , on November 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »

“Mustard seed pods come in many shapes and sizes, but they always form a raceme on the flower stalk, which looks something like a spiral staircase for the little people. The crushed leaves usually smell something like mustard,” writes Thomas J. Elpel in his book Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification [...]

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Queen of Hearts: The meat-eating mustard

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , on May 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The wild mustard commonly known as Shepherd’s Purse deserves a new name: Queen of Hearts. Not only does it have distinct heart-shaped seed pods, but just like the character from Alice in Wonderland, it’s got a murderous side! Shepherd’s Purse, a.k.a. Capsella bursa-pastoris Believe it or not, this plant is carnivorous! The seed pods attract [...]

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Spicy Like Springtime

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , , , on January 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Little Western Bittercress, a.k.a. Cardamine oligosperma, is safe in Wild Girl’s ghostly pale hands (Photo by Henry Stanley) The blank white-gray skies of Portland’s wintertime are notoriously depressing, so signs of springtime are greeted eagerly in this neck of the woods. I went for a walk with Emily and Henry along the Springwater Corridor, a [...]

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