Coincidentally, I just learned this one in a plant ID class, found seedlings in my yard this morning, and removed them. Love Virginia creeper, and we can’t eat the berries, but the birds do.
It's good that the class featured it. Seems that a whole lot of poisonings from this weed are from foragers making a mistake. An herbalist of my acquaintance recommends that people not forage Angelica archangelica due to the similarity to poison hemlock, water hemlock, and other poisonous plants. People shouldn't be in a big hurry when they forage though :-)
Agreed! The point is to engage with nature in the first place... and I find the specificities of the plant world worth lingering over, geeking out over every detail. I think you might be cut from the same cloth, LOL.
Coincidentally, I just learned this one in a plant ID class, found seedlings in my yard this morning, and removed them. Love Virginia creeper, and we can’t eat the berries, but the birds do.
It's good that the class featured it. Seems that a whole lot of poisonings from this weed are from foragers making a mistake. An herbalist of my acquaintance recommends that people not forage Angelica archangelica due to the similarity to poison hemlock, water hemlock, and other poisonous plants. People shouldn't be in a big hurry when they forage though :-)
Agreed! The point is to engage with nature in the first place... and I find the specificities of the plant world worth lingering over, geeking out over every detail. I think you might be cut from the same cloth, LOL.
Yaaa. Once you study the plant itself, you know it, and it pops out, and practically announces its presence the next time you get near it.