p_ham
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Found at 9200ft in NV. It smells and looks like parsley to me.
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Hilljackoutlaw
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Maybe mugwort?
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My best educated guess is Sweetcicely (Osmorhiza berteroi), aka sweetroot. Not impossible it's another species but IME berteroi is the most common.
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What's the site like? Guessing shaded conifer understory based on the litter and my guess of species.
@Mthuntr ask your plant nerd friends ha
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What county was it in? What was the turf like?
p_ham
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It blanketed a large area in a stand of pines. North facing slope, about 40yds from lake's edge.
Ruby Mtns. Elko county. The pine duff in that area is fairly deep, followed by loose soil, clay, and granite.
p_ham
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The leaf structure looks different than sweetroot, and there weren't any stalks or flowers above the leaves.
JohnCushman
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Dry it out and smoke it 
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My handy plant identification app says water parsley.
RobG
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I remember a hiking group getting poisoned making that mistake a long time ago. I think more than one died.
BirdManMike
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Thats an ivory-billed woodpecker! You did it!
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I agree.
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I agree it's in the carrot family, and I'm getting less confident in my guess, but I'm still gonna respectfully disagree w/ water parsley due to the elevation and landscape position. Water parsley prefers saturated soils and lower elevation; in the NRCS database it's a wetland obligate (OBL). plants.usda.gov database doesn't have it in NV either for what it's worth, and at least in California observations peak at about 5500-6000'.
Hate to be the guy who doesn't agree and also doesn't have a better guess but here we are.
Hate to be the guy who doesn't agree and also doesn't have a better guess but here we are.
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That was my argument to the plant guru at work here but he was still saying water parsley.I agree it's in the carrot family, and I'm getting less confident in my guess, but I'm still gonna respectfully disagree w/ water parsley due to the elevation and landscape position. Water parsley prefers saturated soils and lower elevation; in the NRCS database it's a wetland obligate (OBL). plants.usda.gov database doesn't have it in NV either for what it's worth, and at least in California observations peak at about 5500-6000'.
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Hate to be the guy who doesn't agree and also doesn't have a better guess but here we are.
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Tilingia Jeholensis? App came up with this not me.I agree it's in the carrot family, and I'm getting less confident in my guess, but I'm still gonna respectfully disagree w/ water parsley due to the elevation and landscape position. Water parsley prefers saturated soils and lower elevation; in the NRCS database it's a wetland obligate (OBL). plants.usda.gov database doesn't have it in NV either for what it's worth, and at least in California observations peak at about 5500-6000'.
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Hate to be the guy who doesn't agree and also doesn't have a better guess but here we are.
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I don't know man that takes me to some page in Chinese haha. "Flora of China" by a guy named Wu.
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Maybe it traveled over on the virus
