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Tansy Time

Beautiful morning today, things cooled off a bit and it was comfortable with lots of wildlife out and about.

Wild Rice Harvest (2) (3) (4) by Laura Borealis

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We’d taken a bit of a break, but the weeds never rest! Here we have our latest Wednesday’s Weed: Tansy, Tanacetum vulgare, also called golden buttons. It’s quite a pretty plant and lovely to see where it belongs (i.e., Europe and Asia), but it’s nonnative and somewhat invasive where I live in the Pacific Northwest. Around here, it’s mostly seen in empty lots, pastures, and on the side of the road.

Tansy’s had quite a few ethnobotanical uses in the past, being used as an insect repellent (including as a companion plant, planted among crops to deter insect pests), a dye, an herb to help season food, and in traditional medicines (although it can also cause rashes, unfortunately). While I end up having to pull the stuff out, it’s nice to remember that somewhere, someone is actually enjoying it!

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