I’m hoping to participate in this next year, so I’m thinking about my seeds now. Is anyone interested in wild parsnip?
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Do you have any pictures of the lower parts of that plant? Based on the flower alone, this looks like it is in the sunflower family (asteraceae), not a parsnip. Might be some sort of salsify or related species with an edible root, but I’m not confident about that without more context/detail.
Yes, my apologies it did arrive last week. Thank you, still looking at seed!
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That does look like it could be salsify. Salsify is a wonderful edible weed. Can you take a picture of the leaves, and of the seeds when they are ready to spread? We can probably tell you if it’s salsify easily if the leaves and seed heads look the way we expect. (Leaves are long and thin like grass; seed heads are big white puffballs like dandelions.)
I always encourage salsify in my yard, so if you have it, that’s fantastic, and I’m sure there will be many people here who’d love seeds!
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Here is the plant. The seed heads are similar in style to dandelion, large yes, but golden, not white. The plant is a current photo, the seeds from several years ago when they fascinated me as a photo subject.
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Not parsnip, either wild or domestic. I would go with salsify.
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That definitely looks like salsify! I harvested three salsify seed heads that look exactly like that today, in fact. 
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I vote salsify. The flower is distinctive. Roast the tasty roots! 
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Ok, salsify it is then! My app obviously failed me! I’m assuming they are binennial and I can never find them the first year because they blend with the grass.
But still the question, would anybody want these seeds?
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I’m a ways down the list, but I would happily take some wild salsify seed if it’s still there when the box gets to me. I see it occasionally when I’m in wild places, but its otherwise not very common here and it’s a beautiful flower on top of its culinary uses.
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I was thinking ahead to next year, but there will be seed soon if you would like me to just send you some this summer. I guess message me with your address? But I’ll save as much as I can to contribute to the collection this fall. I will also have domestic parsnip. And it really is parsnip. 
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I called it false dandelion for a while, since I didn’t have real dandelions. Then this year the dandelions are everywhere and salsify almost non-existent. I think it doesn’t like the saturated soil.
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I saw tons of salsify locally that started blooming, but then these rains hit and it’s just been flood after flood after flood. Everything is struggling with the moisture!
No rush. I’m nowhere near planting mode right now anyway and since we started talking about it I’ve noticed it going to seed along many of the local highways so I have good sources available here.
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Hey, @Kimzy, how goes the box? If you haven’t sent it yet, please send it on to the next person now!
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Yes, its flying…
Excellent!
I need a little help, who is next on the seed list, can you message me and give your address? Im ready to send the box. My apologies, im trying to help out my Mom.
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(Sheepish laugh.) That “I need a little help” post from Kimzy was something she had posted in a different thread a week ago – I just noticed it a few hours ago, realized she had almost certainly meant to post it here, and so I moved it here.
I thought the forum would stick it before her “Yes, it’s flying” post because it was written a week beforehand, but . . . it looks like it didn’t, so now things look confusing . . . 
Anyway, that’s the chronology here!
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