sunshine on a cloudy Spring day outside of your gardens?

[digitS']

Does this plant live in your neighborhood? If so, I'd like to know about it.

Whether it lives near you or not, you should feel free to identify it .

Steve's digits (& a common source)

 

[vfem]

Isn't that just wild sunflower? :/

http://www.all-creatures.org/picb/wfshl-sunflower-wild.html

 

[Greensage45]

The thing to notice about this plant is that it is growing from a 'crown'; not at all like a sunflower.

But, ....here it is: Arrowleaf Balsamroot Balsamorhiza sagittata

Goodluck!

Ron :bouquet

 

[digitS']

You identified it, Ron!

Yep, I've got some photo's but, as usual, they weren't very close. Got this one off Wikipedia Commons.

Does this grow as far south as your neck of the woods, Ron??

Steve

 

[digitS']

Wow, Vfem, that's quite a gallery of wild sunflowers!

I like to call them: Arrowleaf Balsamroot Sunflowers . . . that way, I've covered every part of the plant, except the stem.

arrow-shaped leaves
balsam roots which can be used as a shampoo, I guess
sun flowers

Maybe they could be Arrowleaf Balsamroot Fuzzystemmed Sunflowers

Steve

 

[injunjoe]

Wow, Vfem, that's quite a gallery of wild sunflowers!

I like to call them: Arrowleaf Balsamroot Sunflowers . . . that way, I've covered every part of the plant, except the stem.

arrow-shaped leaves
balsam roots which can be used as a shampoo, I guess
sun flowers

Maybe they could be Arrowleaf Balsamroot Fuzzystemmed Sunflowers

Steve

You my friend are a great wealth of knowledge!

Sorry I don't reply to your threads more! I feel I don't quite measure up to how you speak! So I don't say what I want to.

I am impressed with what you have to share, don't get me wrong.

Joe

 

[Greensage45]

I never seen this plant before until you posted it.

Can you tell us more about it? Is it a bulb?

Ron

 

[cwhit590]

The thing to notice about this plant is that it is growing from a 'crown'; not at all like a sunflower.

But, ....here it is: Arrowleaf Balsamroot Balsamorhiza sagittata

http://www.sondahl.com/balsamrt.jpg

Goodluck!

Ron :bouquet

Wow. That is really cool!!! I want one now too.

 

[digitS']

Not a bulb, Ron, but I'm almost afraid to say I know anything about them despite living nextdoor to these beauties for a lifetime . . .

They have a large taproot and it may be edible but it may not be - - Joe, don't believe anything I say!!

They grow all over my part of the world up into the mountains about as far as the Ponderosa pine goes, down into the desert - from way up in British Columbia to somewhere down south . . . maybe Flagstaff & Albuquerque. A person would need to be around in the late spring to enjoy the blooms.

It is available commercially, I'm fairly sure.

This is such a beautiful photograph: Arrowleaf Balsamroot and Homestead Ruins, Grand Teton National Park

Steve

 

[cwhit590]

Not a bulb, Ron, but I'm almost afraid to say I know anything about them despite living nextdoor to these beauties for a lifetime . . .

They have a large taproot and it may be edible but it may not be - - Joe, don't believe anything I say!!

They grow all over my part of the world up into the mountains about as far as the Ponderosa pine goes, down into the desert - from way up in British Columbia to somewhere down south . . . maybe Flagstaff & Albuquerque. A person would need to be around in the late spring to enjoy the blooms.

It is available commercially, I'm fairly sure.

This is such a beautiful photograph: Arrowleaf Balsamroot and Homestead Ruins, Grand Teton National Park

Steve

Love that pic! Tetons =

Hmmm...I wonder if they would survive out east? Maybe it would be too wet for them...