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Soo...#plantidentification workshop at @grumblethorpehistoric farm tonight was cute! Too busy teaching to take pics except this one because as I’m headed there I realize I’m riding many miles on my bike around town with a “messenger” bag full of this really “#goodbook” spreading the good word and teachings about plants that have risen from the ground we thought were dead but actually are very alive and have the potential to save us all but only if we listen to them. 😇
When humans are gone there will still be #plants that look like people but there won’t be any people around to #anthropomorphize them.
Biking to school, head adrift in the #Honeysuckle scents that spread in the layered beds of moist morning air and sit heavy in the river sulcus. Look ma, no hands: drive-by Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) snag and sniff and sweet nectar suck plus wobbling insta snap and no I didn’t crash but did throw the spent #flowers at a car who cut me off. Acute #Antiviral that doesn’t taste like hell (looking at you, boneset). Help me organize and lead a plant ID by bike class?#drivebyherbalism #wildcrafting #wheelCrafting #schuylkillrivertrail
Every leaf in this picture is #poisonivy (Toxicodendron radicans, Anacardiaceae). Vines have scaled this tree and sent out 10-15 foot twigs. Assuming and replacing the branching of big trees is my favorite growth habit of this inspirationally polymorphous plant who requires eyes to always be attuned and makes exploration a dangerously active engagement where it takes guard. #schuylkillriver #schuylkillcenter
All time fav, Anemone quinquefolia, Ranunculaceae, Wood Anemone. Oft-forgotten spring ephemeral overshadowed by its other Anemone genera siblings... Loves growing right up against the nooks of a parent tree, here a beech (I’ve seen it with beech before). Too sparse and patchy and seemingly fickle to think of as sustainable medicine, and rarely discussed in literature. The dose makes the poison, remember. Merely a leaf nibble has dissociated me for hours left with throat acridity that shames Lobelia. Maybe if once upon a time you’re having a panic attack in the woods and this buddy is around, fortunate moments for a dime-sized leaf -but do not play. Otherwise, A. quinq stays elusive, hidden in the arms of old trees, tiny and powerful, unassuming and gone by summer.
Early-flowering Witch Hazel surrounded by leafless Viburnums. You ever feel like that?

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