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Saturday - April 17, 2010
From: Blackshire, OH
Region: Northeast
Topic: Plant Identification
Title: Mystery flower in Mesquite NY
Answered by: Barbara Medford
QUESTION:
My sister recently told me a story, that one day in the Mesquite, NV area she liked a white wildflower on the side of the road, so she went to smell it, and a car stopped and told her not to touch it, that it was very poisonous. Would you know of what flower it might have been? Or was he pulling her leg.ANSWER:
We pride ourselves on being very good plant detectives, but this is beyond us. We usually request a picture, and a much more complete description of the plant, area, season, etc. to even begin to identify a plant. Frankly, we think he was either pulling your sister's leg, or trying a new pickup line. We hate it when plants are used for such nefarious purposes.More Plant Identification Questions
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