Woodland Plant

pinksand · Mon May 16, 2016 4:46 pm

I found a few of these guys in the woods over the weekend and was wondering if anyone knew what they are?

All of the plants I saw had the same leaf structure as visible in the photo, single stem with 4 leaves branching out from the center.

!potatoes! · Mon May 16, 2016 8:18 pm

I'm going to be no help, but I've seen those and would love to know too. they always seem a little like a seedling of some sort of smilax before it starts vining, but I don't think that's it at all.

pinksand · Tue May 17, 2016 10:17 am

Interesting! I hadn't even considered that they might be seedlings of a vine. I wonder if they could be greenbrier seedlings?

Lindsaylew82 · Tue May 17, 2016 10:39 am

Maybe wild yam?

rainbowgardener · Tue May 17, 2016 1:47 pm

I was thinking greenbrier, but I wasn't feeling sure enough to volunteer it....

Lindsaylew82 · Tue May 17, 2016 1:55 pm

https://thebighang.icobb.com/wilderness- ... -wild-yam/

Lindsaylew82 · Tue May 17, 2016 1:59 pm

Lindsaylew82 wrote:https://thebighang.icobb.com/wilderness- ... -wild-yam/

That article says they're rare!

pinksand · Tue May 17, 2016 2:04 pm

Lindsaylew82 I think you're right! The photos look like an exact match

How exciting! There was a small patch of them along a hiking path I often take.

Lindsaylew82 · Tue May 17, 2016 2:57 pm

You lucky ducky!

!potatoes! · Wed May 18, 2016 6:14 am

huh. apparently the ones in the woods stay like that, but plants on brighter edges do vine like other wild yam. we have lots. might have to dig one some day just to see.