Today was Tuesday, February 21 2012
It was 68 degrees F
My main focus of today was examining berries and roots.
As a child I used to dig up these white bulbous roots and pretend to be a native american. My mother always called it 'rabbit's tobacco'
today I happened upon that same plant and decided to start there.
Plant
Determined Dicot
forb/herb growth habit
nodulose roots
stolon or sucker sub-aerial modification
The lamina is chordate, (the leaf is shaped like a heart)
extipulated (no stipule present)
foliage leaves
reticulate unicostate veniation, (only 1 principle vein which gives off lateral veins that proceed toward edges, forming a network)
pinnatipartile lamina edges (serrated/ lacy)
opposite decussate phyllotaxy (leaves occuring in pairs at the nodes, standing at right angle to next upper or lower pair)
2/22/2012
posting on a fruit I found and I ran across a weeds PDF
http://hortweeds.tennessee.edu/webapp/weedguide/allpages.pdf
it refers to it as Florida hedgenettle, rattlesnake weed
scientific name: Stachys floridana
aaaaand SUCCESS
correctly identified.
edible? apparently!
http://www.youtube.com/embed/cAudL109GOg
http://www.daviddarling.info/images/types_of_roots.gif
according to that webpage ^^ the roots are considered nodulose
Could not find out what it is! I will continue to search
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