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Not sure where to ask, since plant ID from foraging is technically not really /hgm/, but you anons know your shit, so I'll take my chances.
Went fishing this morning and had a increased interest in foraging and plant identification lately. On my way to a fishing spot I saw some plants that I thought distantly resembled wild carrot (daucus carota). They weren't, and I now know the leaves don't really fit, but i was interested enough to get a identification book out.
I figured it might be common yarrow (achillea millefolium), which is both a edible and medicinal plant. Issue is yarrow usually reaches heights of 20-80 cm and while one of these plants reached around 25cm, the others were very small and all over the place, more like buckhorn or broadleaf plantain (with those two obviously having both completely different leaves and flowers, I only mean to compare them in terms of how low they are and how they grew in the grass).
Yarrow is also reported to be "pungent" and "bitter", while this one didn't smell of anything except chlorophyll and didn't taste of anything (other than generic plant matter/chlorophyll) either, so I suspect it was another plant. I did make sure it wasn't hemlock (conium maculatum) before tasting a small piece of a leaf though, kek.
Picrel is the plant, my bad for the bad image quality. Any guesses what it is? Anyone got any experience with eating yarrow? Does it taste intense or may I just have missed some subtle bitter notes or something?
I also let an AI identification app run over it now that I am back home, but it just suggested yarrow as well.
