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wild plant seed sources
#3901668
07/21/13 12:09 PM
07/21/13 12:09 PM
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Minker
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Is there anywhere you can get seeds for sweet anna , arrowhead plant or other native wild plants that aren't grown/dug/cultivated for sale /use ?
both of those are pretty much exstinct in the wild around here , both were favored foods of muskrats . i'd like to get some seeds and see if i can get some started in protected areas and see if it might help bring back the muskrats . there are other plants the rats used to favor for food as well that are mostly gone that i'd like to get seeds for as well.
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Re: wild plant seed sources
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#3901766
07/21/13 01:25 PM
07/21/13 01:25 PM
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figure out the life cycle of the plant then use your wild plants for new ones.not all plants come from seed.
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Re: wild plant seed sources
[Re: Minker]
#3901821
07/21/13 02:09 PM
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theres none left i can find , haven't seen or smelled a sweet anna for close to 30 years.
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Re: wild plant seed sources
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#3902522
07/21/13 09:23 PM
07/21/13 09:23 PM
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if sweet anna isn't native its been around along time or was i should say . it used to be found along just about any watercourse , usually i'd smell it before i'd see it as muskrats would dig out the banks to get the licorice smelling and tasting roots.
thats the name i was always told for it , maybe its known as something else.
thanks , i'll check those sources out
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Re: wild plant seed sources
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#3905704
07/23/13 08:44 PM
07/23/13 08:44 PM
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Few more to try are Kesters Wild Game Nursery, Wildlife Nursery and Ernst Conservation Seed. They have a good selection of seed and/or plants for wildlife plantings.
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Re: wild plant seed sources
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#3925512
08/05/13 01:27 AM
08/05/13 01:27 AM
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don Wolf
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We have a plant that is called sweet anise that grows in the woods. This plant smells like licorice when you break the root. We also have a plant that we call sweet annie. It grows along ditches and a way out into open fields. This plant grows in full sun. It has a very strong smell to it when you run your hands through it's leaves. This plant can grow as high as 4-5 ft. The root doesn't have any smell to it, that I know of. The first plant only grows to a couple ft. tall usually.
Last edited by don Wolf; 08/05/13 04:45 PM.
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