BAKPAKR
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I am the Benjamin Buford “Bubba” Blue of ramps - had a steak, egg, and ramp scramble with bleu cheese crumbles for breakfast this morning.
Sorry @Hilljackoutlaw, no photos.
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Sorry @Hilljackoutlaw, no photos.
JShane
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Pics or it didn't happen. Your killing me Smalls. Damn that sounds delishI am the Benjamin Buford “Bubba” Blue of ramps - had a steak, egg, and ramp scramble with bleu cheese crumbles for breakfast this morning.
Sorry @Hilljackoutlaw, no photos.
Hunting Wife
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Well, going to have to take another trip to check that one off my listMaybe Coryphantha Robustispine --- probably not
Enjoy your trip
Bullshot
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1 ramps/wild leek
2 dutchmans breeches
3 not bloodroot - its twinleaf
all part of a great non-taxonomic informal group of “spring ephemerals”
If you are in a limestone area with mesic woods, and in mid-atlantic area, you are in for one of the best botanizing experiences this time of year ( unless the gnats are already out!)
In your photos are a couple more if interested…
4- spring beauty (they can carpet large areas with small flowers). can cook and eat the tiny potato-like tubers.
5) a Gallium species, maybe wild madder or cleavers?
6) can’t really make it out fully but these little seedling / saplings may be pawpaw, depending on where you are at. If so, they become a small tree, often in “patches”. Early flowering, edible “tropical” fruit in fall.
also see some grape, sycamore, red oak, maybe some tulip
poplar and hornbeam in background.
Also there’s a toothwort in amongst your ramps i’ll let you find
and some other baby flowers possibly including rue anemone and a chickweed. The more you look, the more you will find. hope you get some more hiking in!
send more pics in! love the taste of spring!
finally - instead of a boring App, get your hands on a copy of Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide. Old yellow hard or soft cover edition if possible (not the blue re-print with lesser paper quality). worth its weight in gold for the weekend enthusiast.
2 dutchmans breeches
3 not bloodroot - its twinleaf
all part of a great non-taxonomic informal group of “spring ephemerals”
If you are in a limestone area with mesic woods, and in mid-atlantic area, you are in for one of the best botanizing experiences this time of year ( unless the gnats are already out!)
In your photos are a couple more if interested…
4- spring beauty (they can carpet large areas with small flowers). can cook and eat the tiny potato-like tubers.
5) a Gallium species, maybe wild madder or cleavers?
6) can’t really make it out fully but these little seedling / saplings may be pawpaw, depending on where you are at. If so, they become a small tree, often in “patches”. Early flowering, edible “tropical” fruit in fall.
also see some grape, sycamore, red oak, maybe some tulip
poplar and hornbeam in background.
Also there’s a toothwort in amongst your ramps i’ll let you find
and some other baby flowers possibly including rue anemone and a chickweed. The more you look, the more you will find. hope you get some more hiking in!send more pics in! love the taste of spring!
finally - instead of a boring App, get your hands on a copy of Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide. Old yellow hard or soft cover edition if possible (not the blue re-print with lesser paper quality). worth its weight in gold for the weekend enthusiast.
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BAKPAKR
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Why would you want waste time digging and eating a potato-like tuber when you could be digging and eating ramps?1 ramps/wild leek
2 dutchmans breeches
3 not bloodroot - its twinleaf
all part of a great non-taxonomic informal group of “spring ephemerals”
If you are in a limestone area with mesic woods, and in mid-atlantic area, you are in for one of the best botanizing experiences this time of year ( unless the gnats are already out!)
In your photos are a couple more if interested…
4- spring beauty (they can carpet large areas with small flowers). can cook and eat the tiny potato-like tubers.
5) a Gallium species, maybe wild madder or cleavers?
6) can’t really make it out fully but these little seedling / saplings may be pawpaw, depending on where you are at. If so, they become a small tree, often in “patches”. Early flowering, edible “tropical” fruit in fall.
also see some grape, sycamore, red oak, maybe some tulip
poplar and hornbeam in background.
Also there’s a toothwort in amongst your ramps i’ll let you find
send more pics in! love the taste of spring!
finally - instead of a boring App, get your hands on a copy of Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide. Old yellow hard or soft cover edition if possible (not the blue re-print with lesser paper quality). worth its weight in gold for the weekend enthusiast.
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If not Ken, it's April pushing the Britannica, thesaurus, dictionary, or Google identified articles for adult school edumacation.Maybe Coryphantha Robustispine --- probably not
Enjoy your trip
There must be an inside line of humor as this one zipped right by - some variation of pineapple cactus?
BAKPAKR
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You can find prickly pear just a few miles west of where @Hunting Wife was.
Bullshot
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Just gotta find those rocky south facing ridges. The fruit are delicious, just very seedy and no matter how many times you wipe off those fphtiny thspines fphthey pffstill ffget phffin yorphh phhtoungff
Hunting Wife
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Awesome! Thanks for the additions.
There are definitely paw paw around here, tulip trees, sycamores, grape, spice bush (I think they called it?), redbuds are just starting to bloom. Fun times seeing new things. Taking a field trip farther east today so I’m sure I’ll see more new stuff.
Tried making prickly pear wine once with our tiny little northern prairie prickly pears, only to discover they are a much different animal than those in the southwest. Ours have no juice/flesh to feed yeasties with. So disappointing.
tarheel
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Ok experts, is this ramp/leek or? I've noticed these every spring in my woods but that's about all I've done, noticed just and moved on. One thing is for sure there's gazillions and gazillions of these on my property, whatever they are.
BAKPAKR
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Those look like ramps to me. I mostly find a variety that looks a little different (red stem), but I occasionally find some that look like what you found.
