Sunday, July 15, 2007

Whose Berries Are These?

When you have a woodland garden, with all manner of plants growing higgeldy-piggeldy, you start getting lots of seedlings popping up; some native, some from faraway lands, and some interesting... weeds. Knowing the genus, let alone the species of these little plants is often a guess.
Take the above innocent looking little interloper; a stiff three inch tall stalk covered in tiny green berries. I draw a blank on it, but it stirs a vague memory of having seen it before and that it turned out to not be a prized addition to the garden... but, I'm not sure. If I pull it, only to find out later that it is from a rare Shonsu pitcher plant that only goes to seed every ten years, then dies, I'll be quite toasted. On the other hand, if I let it go to seed, I may come out next spring to find fifty hulking spotted stinkweeds taking over my flower bed. Hmmm.
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// posted by IBOY @ 8:22 AM
Comments:
Tough quandary. If it were me I would pull it and not look back. My experience has been it is most likely Stinkweed type of plant.
# posted by Blogger Digital Flower Pictures : July 15, 2007
 
Perhaps an Allium tricoccum (Ramps) seed head. See image from the RampFarm.

Ramp Farm image
# posted by Blogger Ki : July 15, 2007
 
Sorry for the bad link. Try this one.

Ramp Farm image
# posted by Blogger Ki : July 15, 2007
 
Digital... you're braver than me.

Ki... wow; that really looks close. I'm not sure we have ramps around here, but I'll look into it.
Don
# posted by Blogger IBOY : July 16, 2007
 
Could it be wild garlic? The stem looks like it might be fuzzy, in which case, it would not be wild garlic.
# posted by Blogger Sylvana : July 25, 2007
 
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