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Jul 01, 2022, 09:28 PM
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Member Since: Oct 2004
Location: Kentucky, USA
Posts: 25,086
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Originally Posted by Travelinglady
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I have most of these on my farm. Tons of poison Ivy.. Lol....when I first moved to KY from CA, I thought I was trying to help Queen Ann's Lace to grow. I took a nature hike one day at our local Shaker Village & the guide pointed out all the local plants (most not native to the area). Found out the plant was poison hemlock & was saving the seeds from & not Queen Ann's Lace
I got into stinging nettle a few years ago when looking through the field in back of my farm for the 10 foster goats I was keeping that escaped....not so funny. I was so focused on finding the goats that I didn't pack mud from my creek on the stinging on my hand. By the time I went to bed that night, my hand & arm up to my elbow looked like a huge balloon. Took weeks to get that hand & arm back to normal just taking antihistamines. Still not good at ID'ing stinging nettle
Have always packed mud on any plant irritation. Mud dries & soaks up the oils & draws out the poison. Learned that from my grandpa when I was a kid & spent summer Saturdays fishing in the creeks & rivers around where they lived in Kansas.
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