Cardamine Impatiens

Plant X has a name: Cardamine impatiens. aka Narrowleaf Bittercress. It's cruciferous and a Brassica and it tastes pretty good, with a slight mustard tang. It's the auricles that give it away, little bits of extra leaf stem that stick out and partially surround the main stem.

The snake pictured in the last post has dots behind its head. A red-bellied snake. Storeria occipitomaculata. Now I know what a keeled scale is.

I'm distracted from my sit spot by the lower field, it's got all sorts of things going on and the dog loves it down there.


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