HERB - Re: Natural Dyeing experiment equipment

N.D. Wederstrandt nweders at mail.utexas.edu
Mon Jul 20 12:54:56 PDT 1998


It's not greater ragweed which has little inconspicuous flowers and three
lobed leaves. Greater ragweed stands about  6-7 feet tall.   The only
bitterweed I know about (without books or anything)  is also called
rosinweed and is a "sunflower-type" plant except the flowers aren't as big
as sunflower. The flowers  you describe don't sound anything like
Rosinweed.  When you say lots of leaves, so you mean compound? pinnate?
How tall is the plant?
	It could be broomweed which is a small clump like bush, very tiny
needle thin leaves and very small yellow flowers. The plant is ball shaped
and has a creosote smell.  Down here it blooms in the fall and covers
fields with gold blooms (tiny)?  Early settlers used to make brooms with it.

Clare

Would someone describe ragweed to me?  We have a plant out here that even
>the goats and llama won't eat.  Mom calls it "bitterweed"  but I can't find
>that common name listed in any of my books.  Dad said he thought it might
>be ragweed, but it doesn't quite match the only picture that I have of
>ragweed.  It has lots and lots of thin "leaves", the petals are yellow,
>usually nine on a flower, and sorta heart shaped, except with three lobes
>instead of two.  The center is light orange.  It grows to about a foot
>high, and it is very bitter (wash your hands after pulling, before eating
>anything with fingers-sometimes two or three times)
>thanks for any info,
>Melandra of the Woods
>
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