Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been out and about collecting and trying to identify the plants and herbs around me. As I walk through my favorite forest, I see trees with these yellow flowers. It was not until later I realized just how many WITCH HAZEL trees are there. (Hope I can remember which ones they are next time I go back!)
Anyway, along the pond there are Cat tails and also this odd plant which I have now identified. No good uses for it that I can see at this time but who knows:
Bur-Reed, Sparganium americanum
I also found several large patches of the following two herbs which are very useful:
Wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
Squaw Vine (Partridge berry), Mitchella repens
Lastly, I found a small plant that I have not been able to identify. Anyone with any ideas, PLEASE drop me a line.**
** I have now identified this plant as Chimaphila Maculata!
