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Whatsit? Geum canadense

 
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Maybe from something I planted? Possibly? Currently it's about 6 inches tall.
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Lovage??
 
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if it smells like celery, lovage?
(isn't there a flower with leaves like this too? maybe not peony but... can't remember)
 
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I took new pictures, forgot to smell it. Whatcha think about it now? Oh, it is in mostly shade. Sun for about two hours.

And the blue flower belongs to spiderwort.
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Geum?
 
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Flowers! The crushed leaves smells nice. I would not describe it as like celery. It smells much nicer than"green", how I describe some of the weeds we eat.
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Now I'd go with Nynke with geum.
Do you have white avens locally?


https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/geum/canadense/
 
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According to Plants for a Future we are in it's range. How cool! I like it. And it's perennial And the boiled root is a chocolate substitute! (Yeah, right. I like carob, but it's no chocolate substitute!)
 
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Joylynn Hardesty wrote: ... the boiled root is a chocolate substitute! ...



Wauw Joylynn, chocolate, I had no idea. Just pulled some yesterday to trow on the compost heap, what a waste.

Does anyone ever use its root? How does that work?
 
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