Hairy Bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta, is one of the smaller wild mustards in the Brassicaceae family. Oddly enough, this plant is less hairy and bitter and more non-hairy and spicy! The hairs are very fine and without close inspection, you’ll miss them all together. Identifying Hairy Bittercress This plant consists of compound leaves with tiny leaflets…
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Pickled Spruce Tips
Pickled Spruce Tips Right now all the evergreens are speckled bright green as they reach further out and extend their branches. During the middle to end of May all the evergreens begin to grow and display an inch or so of soft new needles. Typically munching on spruce needles isn’t all that pleasant but this…
