Wild herbs / North Carolina, Appalachians
Wild herbs: Pisgah National Forest
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See the pre-saleWhere to look
Look for garlic mustard, chickweed and dandelion in spring along forest roads, car parks and clearings around Brevard. Nettle and American elder grow in stream valleys. Ramps form patches in damp, shady coves, and their poisonous look-alike is green false hellebore (Veratrum viride).
What grows here
garlic mustard, common chickweed, dandelion, stinging nettle, elder (elderflower, elderberry), yarrow
Habitats: damp broadleaf forest with tulip tree and oak, coves with ramps (Allium tricoccum), clearings and stream banks
Rules
In North Carolina's national forests you may pick up to 3 pounds (about a gallon) of ramps for personal use without a permit, and picking for sale needs a permit from the ranger district. In neighbouring Great Smoky Mountains National Park ramp harvesting has been stopped since 2004. Rules for other plants are set by each district, so ask before you go.
About the place
Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina holds some of the most diverse temperate broadleaf forest anywhere. In spring ramps grow here, an American relative of wild garlic. Garlic mustard is an invasive species here.
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