What is the bush....

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

....that has tiny cotton-looking "flowers"?

 

We had them all over the valley when we moved to Utah in 1951 and Dad still had some by the garage the last time I was there in 2001.  Seems they were very hardy....surviving even -30 f weather and hundred degree summers....and attractive, but I can't find what I'm looking for on the net.

 

Any horticulturist out there.  (There must be.  Every other skill, arts, food, costume, language, historical, entertainment, and other question thing turns up someone really quickly.)

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Pussy willow?

[Subdeacon Joe]

Maybe Cow Parsnip?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_maximum

 

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Common Yarrow?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_maximum

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 9/21/2024 at 8:05 AM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Pussy willow?

THAT EARNED YOU A DRINK ON ME.  Bottles, set the man up.

 

Thanks, Mo.

 

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste."  I sometimes wonder why it has been so often wasted in TV and radio pukes....and politicians....and newspaper columnists...and too many teachers and professors.  

 

Mine wasn't wasted.  It just faded away.

[Texas Lizard]

Now that we got threw all of that.....How and why the name????

 

Texas Lizard

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

20 hours ago, Texas Lizard said:

Now that we got threw all of that.....How and why the name????

 

Texas Lizard

Just because.  So there!

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

21 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste."  I sometimes wonder why it has been so often wasted in TV and radio pukes....and politicians....and newspaper columnists...and too many teachers and professors.  

 

Mine wasn't wasted.  It just faded away.

I don't think yours was wasted, more likely you wore it out.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

21 hours ago, Texas Lizard said:

Now that we got threw all of that.....How and why the name????

 

Texas Lizard

They say the name pussy willow comes from a legend of a mother cat on a riverbank crying over her kittens who had fallen in chasing butterflies. The willows lent a hand by bending their branches into the water for the kittens to grab on to. The fuzzy pussy willow blooms each Spring are where the kittens once clung.

[Subdeacon Joe]

22 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

THAT EARNED YOU A DRINK ON ME.  Bottles, set the man up.

 

Thanks, Joe.

 

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste."  I sometimes wonder why it has been so often wasted in TV and radio pukes....and politicians....and newspaper columnists...and too many teachers and professors.  

 

Mine wasn't wasted.  It just faded away.

 

 

Which one was it?  Pussy willow, Cow Parsnip, or Yarrow?

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

24 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

 

Which one was it?  Pussy willow, Cow Parsnip, or Yarrow?

Pussy willow.  I didn't see any others.