#devils club

[pnwnativeplants]

Oplopanax horridus? She's Oplopanax wonderfulus to me

[juneaupix]

[pixierainbows]

[pixierainbows]

devil’s club meadow

[achernars-folly]

Devils Club darling I love you but you have the rest of the yard to grow plz stay out of my garden bed

[achernars-folly]

I earned so much about devils club in the process of digging it out

[occupied-spaces]

The berries are almost done, but the Devil's Club leaves are brilliant yellow.

Northern BC has a love/hate relationship with Devil's Club. The spines are sharp, painful, and hard to remove, but the bark is valued for its medicinal properties. It's medicinal uses most often appear in Indigenous medicine, but my grandmother swears the best topical she ever had for her arthritis was a Devil's Club salve a friend gave her.

[akdogdriver]

Signs of autumn