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y’all know what this is?!
it is a clump of jewelweed seedlings!
common jewelweed (impatiens capensis) is native to north america and likes to grow along waterways. in the summertime she grows lovely little orange flowers.
but my favorite thing about her is her sap! it’s great for topical use on irritated skin. i make salves out of it and other happy-skin plants every summer. AND anD if you apply the sap to an area of skin that’s been exposed to poison ivy, it can prevent the rash from developing.
OMG there’s a poison ivy preventative!? well. . . no. this is a more of a “i am in the middle of the woods and have no soap and water but i DO have this plant” situation.
the thing is, you have to have to apply the jewelweed sap almost immediately after exposure to urushiol (the itchy juice in poison ivy), and if you’ve been in contact with poison ivy for more than a few minutes – which most people are because they don’t recognize/notice it – then it’s DEF not going to work. urushiol is absorbed by the skin too fast.
it’s still a cool plant and it DOES reduce itchiness and irritation from dermatitis and bug bites. 🦟
#plants#plant identification#jewelweed#impatiens capensis#us native plants#plant facts#cool plants#medicinal plants#wildcraft#my photos
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Check out the fiery beauty of the Platanthera ciliaris, a vibrant orange orchid adding a pop of color to the green wilds. These feathery blooms, native to the US, are a delightful find for nature enthusiasts and photographers alike!
#Platanthera ciliaris#orange orchid#vibrant flowers#nature photography#orchid species#wildflowers#floral beauty#nature enthusiasts#botanical#eco photography#US native plants#wildlife habitat#nature walks#orchid lovers#conservation
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video that gives me hope hehe
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February 18, 1:39pm
The Carolina Jessamine vines I planted to climb the neighbor's neglected chain link fence are in full bloom.
#the patch on telfair#yellow jessamine#jessamine#native plants#us native plants#pollinator friendly#flowers#US Southeast#amelia rate photos
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Native Plant Info Masterlist...2!
This will be a USA centric post sadly, mostly focused on the East, since I am unfamiliar with resources outside of my area.
iNaturalist lets you upload pictures of any organisms and get them identified by the community, but if you don't want to upload, you can still lurk and look through all the photos being posted in your area to develop familiarity with the plants
Wildflower Search lets you toggle between photos of leaves, flowers, fruits etc. of each plant, gives loads of links to other sites that provide info, lets you search by flower color, plant type, time of year, and about a dozen other search criteria- very cool site
Wildflower.org is another very good site- has a search function where you can search plants by various traits and qualities
Find native plants by the number of butterflies that use them
Butterfly host plant list
Keystone species for every USA ecoregion for butterflies and bees
UNC Chapel Hill's 2022 Flora of the Southeastern United States. The ultimate EXHAUSTIVE compendium of plants. You can download it but beware it is over 2,000 pages long
Illinois Wildflowers is an excellent resource for plants found throughout the southeast and Midwest
Virginia Wildflowers
Northern Forest Atlas Awesome high quality photos of trees and leaves, buds, etc.
Name That Plant is a great resource focused on the Carolinas and Georgia
Maryland Biodiversity has much information on plants and many other creatures
Sarracenia.com is all about carnivorous plants
Native Beeology is focused on native bees of New York State
Also try looking up "[your state] native plant society" as many states have one! It could be a great way to find opportunities to get involved.
#usa centric#native plants#native plant gardening#gardening#plants#nature#flowers#bees#save the bees#no lawns#kill your lawn#fuck lawns#biodiversity#conservation#us centric#trees
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I love walking by my garden to see the fruits of my labor (bees!)
#bees#BEES#the yard used to be just grass#and empty mulch#with plastic tarp underneath#like not even landscaping cloth#actual tarp#native plants#insects#gardening#wild indigo#false indigo#photography#bugblr
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need to mow a lawn? why don't you
#no i don't have a scythe but i want one#desperately#this post is directed at all of my neighbors who are using their motorized lawnmowers#while i'm on conference calls for work#lawnmowers suck#using a scythe will take longer which is why you should plant most of your lawn in native perennials ;)#that way there's less to mow#image description in alt text#thank you to the bookbinding chat for helping make the graphic design as awful as possible#scythes#blazed post#mine
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Before I go to sleep I leave you all with this piece of advice: sometimes you don't actually have to answer big political questions, sometimes you can just say "I am not smart enough to know that, I just know the small things I do to help." Like you can often times completely avoid making a fool of yourself if you just say you don't know.
#simon says#to explain here and not in a reblog:#sometimes when you try to explain big picture solutions you're gonna sound dumb#you might not have done enough research#you might not have a rebuttal to a counter argument#you might not be articulate enough to explain why you think this#sometimes you gotta take a step back and give the simple solution. the one man solution#you do what you can to fight against the problem#you talk to people to help spread awareness and how to fight the bad problem#and you vote and invite others to vote for bigger steps towards solving the problem#like you can talk about theory and how you believe we need to do a huge drastic thing to solve and issue#but people will disagree and argue til you're blue in the face#they'll poke and prod until you mess up or lose your temper and use it against you#and you'll feel dumb and they'll learn nothing#sometimes the best thing to do is step away from the big picture and just say 'idk what the solution is I just know the things I can do“#sometimes you gotta admit you're not a scientist/expert and you can't answer that#i used this while talking with my Dad tonight#he brought up our climate crisis and space travel as a possible solution#and I said I think that's just addressing the symptom and not the cause and we need to care for our Earth now#and he asked me what solutions I think would fix it#and knowing my incredibly smart Dad who is articulate and ready to throw rebuttles at a moments notice to play devils advocate#and my past experience in struggling in this topic with him before#i just told him I didn't know. all i knew is the little things I can and do do to help#and that hopefully by spreading the word and habits and encouraging others to vote for those bigger solutions I could help make a change#but all I really could do is the little things I have control over#and the topic became much less stressful about the little things we have control over#like planting native plants and recycling and adopting habits that are healthier to our planet#which was 100% more preferable to if I tried to give a big solution. because I would reveal i didn't have all the knowledge needed to argue#and my articulation would make me sound like a stupid kid who only thinks they know what's best#so yeah I basically suggest that if you dont wanna feel like shit after debating someone just step away from the big picture for a moment
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Oh yeah also wanted to share with the Sunflowers that this weekend I’m gonna do one of those invasive plant pulling events in a local park!! Its gonna be my first time going to one and I’m excited (and a lil nervous but yknow). A friend’s also coming with so I don’t gotta be alone, which I appreciate because A: nervous about going alone and B: she doesn’t even like plants or outdoorsy stuff so we have to stan her putting up with my idea of Fun Activity being ‘yanking plants out of the ground’
All this to say I urge yall to go live out your solarpunky dreams. And apparently the native plant society’s website is a good place to start finding events like these.
#out of queue#ani rambles#‘ani thats obvious’ clearly not enough#i always thought these were a like ‘if you know you know’ kinda thing. like a word of mouth thing#or ‘if you don’t walk on the street and find a poster taped to a light pole you simply aren’t meant to know’#but no. all you gotta do is go to your county’s native plant society’s event page and they’ll be like#‘COME HELP US. HERES THE DAY. HERES THE TIME. BRING SUPPLIES. HANG OUT.#man. i need to get gardening gloves huh.#and maybe a tool to bring other than a trowel#well actually it says shovel or trowel#it also says buckets or garden wagons but uh#can’t bring those bc im staying at my friends house for awhile
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i want to make a sewing piece with flowers from different liberation movements — e.g. lavender for queers, poppy for Palestine...
anyone have information on flowers linked to other movements / cultures? For instance, Black liberation or Latin American / Indigenous liberation?
#rn i'm thinking of doing a rose for Indigenous America because they#are native to here + are meaningful to various cultures#+ they make me think of Latin American liberation theology bc of their association with our lady of guadalupe#and the flower of a black-eyed pea for Black liberation because enslaved Africans were able to bring those plants with them#to the americas and nourish themselves with that memory of home#could also do sunflowers as an important staple crop to many Native American cultures (“the fourth sister”)#plus apparently sunflowers were used in some feminist movements? but i'll have to look into which ones Just In Case#averygaypost
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viola sororia - common wood violets
#viola sororia#flowers#violas#violets#common blue violet#us native plants#the white one is a cultivar named 'freckles' and i LOVE THAT#my photos
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I have no idea why but I absolutely hate how Ameridan' story was handled, they basically dumbed it down to him worshipping both the creators and andraste/chant of light, which kind of proved Cassandra's dumb (and incredibly disrespectful) point of an inquisitor having "room for another god". It's also so unfair how they made the evanuris to just be power hungry slavers and tyrants, my only hope is that if the creators were disproving then I hope it would be the same for the chant of light and maker (seeing asnit was solas who made the veil and not the creator) I really hate how centrist the game has gotten, like flat out, whenever I hear the words grey morality and nuance I can't help burn cringe, that's how much dragon age has ruined it for me.
It's also so incredibly funny how the devs are genuinely surprised that most of the players are pro mage, like of course we are?
i think it's particularly extremely aggravating, the way bioware writers write about a pantheon as if polytheistic religions are simply a thing of the past and dead and some kind of mystery/mythology. according to bioware, this kind of writing for polytheistic religions is fine because no real religion these days would everrrrrrr worship multiple gods /sarcasm. (note that the links are just some examples and not comprehensive in the least)
there's a lot of writing choices i quite simply disagree with in dai, and there's some that are just... i don't even disagree with them because that implies it's something to argue about. some of their writing choices are just wrong. after borrowing so heavily from ethnic groups to shape their fictional histories, the disrespect of writing their fictional oppressed minorities as being responsible for their own oppression because they were not "open" enough to include/absorb expy christianity into their religious beliefs and fought back against violent colonialism. the resulting clumsy collation between isr*el and the indigenous people of the americas wanting to reclaim their lands stolen from them by white colonisers makes my blood boil.
ameridan is just another piece of the puzzle that makes me seethe. we have a man who apparently ~existed before hostilities between the elves and the humans~ which is now the fault of drakon's son who invaded the dales after ameridan was long gone. that's already absolute bullshit because ameridan lived in the fucking dales. elves only started living in the dales AFTER ANDRASTE'S REBELLION. after the fall of arlathan, and hundreds of years of enslavement at the hands of tevinter humans???
additionally, the battle of red crossing happened in 2:9 glory, but tensions between the elves and humans had been building up since the second blight. drakon the first died in 1:45 but the elves apparently did "nothing" to help montsimmard when it was overrun by darkspawn in 1:25 divine - twenty years before his death, there was already simmering resentment. additionally, it was drakon the first that expanded the orlesian empire and the orlesian chantry - wotv2 notes his battles against the darkspawn did more to spread the chant of light (specifically, the orlesian chant of light which he, yknow, fucking made up) than any of his other attempts. by the time the exalted march on the dales happens, over three quarters of thedas is under orlesian rule. maferath himself handed the dales to the surviving elves from andraste's campaign in -165 ancient and the elves lived in the dales peacefully until the orlesian chantry was salivating at its borders. and the orlesian chantry has a history of wiping out "cults" - i.e. other sects of their own religion that differ from belief, no matter how minor, to their own. including, notably, the wholesale genocide of a non-violent sect centered around fertility rituals and, later, the dragon worshipping sect in haven off their own land. (and i'm willing to BET MONEY that they were originally alamarri themselves, considering that andraste was brought there to rest, and considering how cultural variance in religion usually occurs [i.e. through the blending/adoption of folk beliefs or the cultural/religious practices from Before]. so the andrastians slaughtered the cult AND THEN TOOK THEIR FUCKING LAND.)
the entire way andrastianism is treated in inquisition makes me violent. and unfortunately, it does not look like it's going to change - there's been multiple statements about how the maker's existence will continue to remain "a mystery" out of a reluctance to confirm or deny the existence of a One True God which, coupled with how they've shat on every other religion in the game - the tevinter chantry, the qun, the stone, the elven pantheon, every other sect worshipping the maker/andraste - gives me absolutely no hope that the writing team is going to get their heads out of their asses about it.
#asks#bioware critical#dai critical#and tbh at this point i really think anyone acting like the writing team is being geniuses or whatever is kinda racist and deluded lmao#most polytheistic religions surviving today are inextricably linked to ethnicity and culture and rich histories of surviving and resisting#colonialist attempts to wipe them out. i feel like comparatively there's fewer polytheistic religions in ''the west'' (more specifically#rooted in white culture) as a result of that. but bioware didn't borrow from THOSE white-rooted polytheistic religions and cultures#they borrowed from native; jewish; roma; even hinduism when it came to the dalish elves but people want to act like the only thing bioware#is pulling from is fucking norse mythology. borrowing character archetypes from norse mythology and planting them onto your#fictional ethnic minorities based off real life religions and people. IS NOT ACTUALLY GOOD WRITING. when you dont CONSIDER the implications#like Gods Not Being Good or having Separate Morals To Humans is a huge theme for norse mythology#but not so much afaik in other polytheistic religions TODAY???#fucking bioware SHOULD HAVE JUST USED NORSE MYTHOLOGY AS A BASE FOR THE ELVES FROM THE START#and NOT brought other ethnic groups into it???#the moment they did they SHOULD HAVE been considering the implications of their writing. and that they didn't and continue NOT TO#is actually something people are allowed to be fucking upset about!!!!
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in good news, the greenleaf manzanitas have started blooming :D one of our first shrubs to bloom and a favorite of native bees.
#It’s been a long winter even for me lmao#Courtesy of grocery chain parking lot#glad they are at least using native plants to landscape
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I really loved how I kept seeing people make warrior cats fanclans/comics/fics set in places they've lived/grew up, which got me thinking about what an Appalachian warrior cats would look like. I was just thinking about it as a fun exercise...and then I fell in love with the idea...and now I'm writing it.
#coming up with warrior names using the plants and animals native to here was what really got me#Oh the leader of Thicketclan should be Laurelstar because mountain laurels! and the main character is Ramppaw of Hollerclan#instead of medicine cats the clans have witches because kitchen witchery/folk witches were the terms I grew up with#and the Starclan contact point is a stump that's basically the moonpool but it's stump water.#There's a clan called Caveclan and they live in an abandoned coal mine and their witch is named Canaryfeather. And the 4th clan is Baldclan#and they do a lot of bird names like Kildeerchest and Chickadeepaw. And they have an old ex-kittypet who lives with them and her name is#Slaunchwise! Which is like slantwise or cattycorner it means diagonal. Most importantly it's the perfect cat name. Imagine it in your head!#Slaunchwise is also sometimes spelled slanchwise or slaunchways the spelling isn't the important part.#Anyways I love them and I've started writing this I'm calling it Old Growth.
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Everything I see that happens to Palestinians literally happened & is happening to Native Americans like its insane
#our oppression mirrors each other#theres differences of course bc our histories of colonization & race & religion are different#but thats what makes the similarities so chilling#Israel controlling Palestine's water supply & making escape or defending yourself nigh impossible#& removing all the Native plants like the Olive trees & replacing them with invasive plants#or the extinction of the Palestinian crocodile vs the Plains Bison#how settlers will defend their colonization & how ive seen a settler say that Israel 'uses the land properly'#everything I've seen settlers say defending Israel is the exact same thing I've seen settler Canadians & Americans say
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Good News - March 15-21
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1. Comeback on the cards for Asian antelope declared extinct in Bangladesh
“Nilgais, the largest antelope species in Asia, are reappearing in northwestern Bangladesh, a country that was part of their historical range but where they were declared locally extinct in the 1930s due to habitat loss and hunting.”
2. Tribal Homes in Minnesotta [sic] Get $1.4M for Clean Electricity
““This grant will allow us to make electrification improvements to our members’ homes and involve them more directly in our efforts to change our energy narrative and achieve our net zero goal.””
3. Pollinators Flock to Flower-Filled Solar Panel Fields
“As populations of crucial pollinators decline, developers have been seeding the grounds of their solar arrays with native wildflowers. Now a five-year study published in Environmental Research Letters confirms that this approach boosts the pollinators’ abundance and diversity—with spillover benefits for surrounding farms.”
4. U.S. House of Representatives Passes WILD Act
“The WILD Act supports funding two different initiatives: […] the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program offers critical support for voluntary conservation initiatives[, and…] The Multinational Species Conservation Funds play a pivotal role in supporting the conservation of imperiled species globally”
5. Private Gender Affirming Care Ban Fails To Advance In England After "Ferret Filibuster"
“A bill banning puberty blockers for trans youth and defining sex to exclude trans people was blocked from being heard after Labour MPs spoke at length on pet names and ferrets.”
6. Community-Led Effort to Plant Thousands of Seedlings
“Despite its urban surroundings, [the Tucki Tucki] creek serves as a vital refuge for the endangered platypus and purple spotted gudgeon populations. […] Planting native vegetation along the water’s edge serves multiple purposes. Not only does it provide crucial habitat for the endangered species, but it also helps stabilise the banks, mitigating erosion and reducing sedimentation in the creek.”
7. Court Ruling Halts Wolf Trapping and Snaring in Idaho Grizzly Bear Habitat
“[The ruling] will stop trapping and snaring […] to prevent the unlawful take of Endangered Species Act-protected grizzly bears. The decision stated, “There is ample evidence in the record, including from Idaho’s own witnesses, that lawfully set wolf traps and snares are reasonably likely to take grizzly bears in Idaho.””
8. A Boston grocery store is bringing community solar to a low-income area
“A group of energy-equity advocates in Boston is launching a community solar cooperative they say could be a scalable model for both reducing carbon emissions and building wealth in disadvantaged communities.”
9. Two-faced solar panels can generate more power at up to 70% less cost
“Scientists at the University of Surrey have built a new kind of solar panel with two faces, both of them pretty. Their flexible perovskite panels have electrodes made of tiny carbon nanotubes. These can generate more power with greater efficiency and at a cost 70% lower than existing solar panels.”
10. It's a boy! Athens zoo welcomes birth of rare pygmy hippo
“A rare and endangered pygmy hippopotamus has been born in Athens’ Attica Zoological Park for the first time in 10 years, delighting conservationists. A lack of male pygmy hippos in captivity had complicated breeding efforts, so zoo staff were “absolutely thrilled” the baby was a boy”
March 8-14 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)
#good news#hopepunk#antelope#animals#extinction#conservation#solar#flowers#us politics#lgbtq#ferret#gender affirming care#native plants#wolf#grizzly bear#boston#poverty#solar power#solar energy#solar panels#zoo#hippo#pygmy hippo#baby animals#nature#wildlife#trans healthcare#deer#yellowstone
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