plant ID

Anyone recognize what these are?



Close-up of one of its flowers.

Mayapples.

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I'm offline for 5 days in the hospital and you just have to post an easy ID my first day back.

Yep, that's what we just found after about an hour of Googling.

We may need to book you for a TFF East Texas plant class.

Just tell me when. I'm $25 per person for classes, 5 person minimum. I guarantee your head will be swimming. EVERYTHING you see has a use.

Can't do it in the heat of the summer and right now it's going to be a real hard push for my hubby to let me teach the class I've had scheduled coming up this weekend. Going to be real easy on myself.

cats love these. When you throw them in it they run and run and run. Little brothers like them too.

Smartaleck.

Bullnettles. But they're food and medicine. Food: Most folks know about the bull nettle nuts. But there's a tap root down there that's basically just a really long potato with a woody core.

The medicine is in the root. We'd peel it and cut it into very large chunks then put it on a necklace for babies to chew when they're teething.

Man I hated getting into these whenever we would be walking across a pasture from tank to tank fishing. Burn and itch for 30 minutes.

I remember running through these on my 3 wheeler. Not fun.

Just go #1 on it . Uric acid takes the sting away .

I'll tell you how to get rid of the pain and itch immediately... and NO, it's not taking a leak on it.

These things grow in dry, sandy conditions. So when you run into one, look around for the nearest exposed, completely dry sand. Get a hand full of sand and RUB. By the time the sand has gone through your fingers, the spines will be out of your leg and it'll stop stinging and burning.

My aunt showed me how to do this when I was somewhere around 8 years old. It works.

Hydrilla

When I was a kid we'd carefully pull them up by the roots and whack each other on the back of the legs.

Cats love these ...