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The pictures below are of a weed growing along the Prince William Parkway which the bees love. In fact, they look kinda like Dave's bees to me.
My wife is a Master Gardener, and this thing even stumps her. Some of you may suggest it is a snakeroot, but my wife thinks the leaves look more like a legume. She's not finding it in any of her identification guides.
If this stuff is native, it could be a good midsummer forage. The bees had the choice of red clover, white clover, crown vetch*, Queen Anne's lace*, long stem dandilions, honeysuckle, black eyed susans, fleabane, and common milkweed. They were going for this stuff and the one patch of milkweeds that were blooming. A single small plant of this stuff in a good patch would have 2-4 bees working it.
*(Yeah, lousy, but my bees like crown vetch and our bee supplier's bees like Queen Anne's lace, and they're the experts.)
My wife is a Master Gardener, and this thing even stumps her. Some of you may suggest it is a snakeroot, but my wife thinks the leaves look more like a legume. She's not finding it in any of her identification guides.
If this stuff is native, it could be a good midsummer forage. The bees had the choice of red clover, white clover, crown vetch*, Queen Anne's lace*, long stem dandilions, honeysuckle, black eyed susans, fleabane, and common milkweed. They were going for this stuff and the one patch of milkweeds that were blooming. A single small plant of this stuff in a good patch would have 2-4 bees working it.
*(Yeah, lousy, but my bees like crown vetch and our bee supplier's bees like Queen Anne's lace, and they're the experts.)

