What the...!?!? (beenthere says it's milkweed)

[Tom]

[PawNature]

Is it Milk Weed

[beenthere]

PawNature is right. Milkweed.

Great for monarch butterflies.

Break the stem and a milky substance exudes.

milkweed site, one of many

[SwampDonkey]

Yup, looks like the milkweed we have in abondoned pastures and ditches here as well. Has a pink blossum before it goes to seed.

We have another taller weed with pink blossums that grows in wet places. The stalk is thicker than goldenrod, but square-like. Leaves have serrated (toothed) margins. I'll go get picks. bbiab (<-- look it up under irc acronyms) ;)  ;D

[jon12345]

Yeah its supposedly edible if you boil it, changing the water several times but I wouldn't try it. The pods are fun to wing at each other, so are the things we call 'wild cucumbers' or 'boppers' - I'll try to bbiab with a pic  :D. Monarch butterfly caterpillars do love milkweed, I think its all they eat and are poisonous because of it (not deadly poison but nasty tasting, or so I've heard)

[SwampDonkey]

Yeah we got those wild cukes to. As kids in school we had cuke and black cherry fights. ;D

I bet I gets a pic first. :D :D :D

[jon12345]

black cherries,,, I heard they had to pass thru a bird before they would germinate, what If I don't got a bird, could I do it myself?    :D :D

[SwampDonkey]

hmmm.......

[thecfarm]

See what happens when you eat too much grits,you can't even tell what milkweed looks like.I think you should eat it when it is still very small.

[LeeB]

I ain't never seen big grits.  :D LeeB