frost head
( Arctium minus )
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In other news, the air quality was much better in #Maine today (still not great -- listed as "Fair" rather than "Poor" or "Unhealthy"). Anyhow, I opened up the barn window and heard lots of buzzing coming from outside. I looked down to see TONS of bumblebees (and a few other bees) going to town on the #Burdock flowers (another "weed" that I let grow this year, knowing how much the bees love it). I grabbed my camera and managed to snap a nice close-up of a bumblebee pal and a stray honeybee (maybe from a hive down the road) mostly sharing a flower (there was plenty to go around, so I didn't see much aggression between them).
#Maine #GardeningForPollinators #Rewilding #Bloomscrolling #Beescrolling #Beehuggah
Woolly burdock
@otterX We have harvested rogue burdock and used the root in kimchi. How are you enjoying it? Burdock will try to take over in southern Minnesota. #burdock, #kimchi, #minnesota, #Zone4b, #fermentation.
I took this photo of burdock this morning. It's not my "pet burdock" from the backyard, just a wild friend.
Burdock is a biennial plant that looks like a short bundle of huge leaves in its first year, grows a very deep edible root, then grows taller in its second year so it can grow these flowers.
Eventually these become dry, brown burrs that get caught on fur and fabric to transport the seeds of the plant. A very impressive reproduction strategy for a "weed", which relates to what I love about wild plants: their resilience to survive without permission.
#burdock #wildflowers
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Last falls burrs from a variety of burdock, a tall, large-leaved, biennial plant often considered a weed, but there is a lot of medicinal value packed in there. Some mature roots can send stems to 5 feet (1.52 meters) and some leaves can be a foot (30.4 cm) wide.
When I was a kid, we'd find those burrs and fashion small scenes, a sofa or chair, some lopsided people who could sit in the chair but not get up easily!
The spiny parts have very grabby, barbs, like Velcro hooks. The burrs are the bane of any long haired dog and especially, for dairy farmers like my family, cow tails.
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Common burdock (𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴) in flower, from Tuesday's hike:
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@colo_lee @val. We bought a Japanese fermentation cookbook. #burdock, #fermentation. That led to foraging burdock root. Then buying it at the market. This was before Covid.
@val. That fish hook end is an effective seed dispersal method. And burdock root is a good fermented vegetable. #growyourown, #burdock
For all the pictures I’ve taken of burdock, I never zoomed in close enough to see why it’s so good at sticking to stuff. Check out those tiny hooks at the end of the spikes.
#burdock