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This plant that showed up in one of my planting pots...I have never seen anything like it before. Its very very very fragrant, a mix between pineapple, sage, mint, strawberries and skunk-like cannabis smell. The dry or tan looking spike has finished flowering and the reddish looking one is finishing the flowering and just now getting seeds.. The seeds look just like chia seeds... very small blackish grey. I am really attracted to the smell ... it affects my mood, makes me happy.
RE: Maybe a type of Rumex? Can you show a close-up of the seed spike?
Yes, i will take a picture of it close up. We do have a few native variety of curly doc that grow and bloom at exact same time that this did.
What is strange is that there is another look alike of this plant all over the pasture here, but they are not fragrant... I wonder if somehow this plant that i have, i wonder if it crossbred with something to make it fragrant.. the other plants look exactly like it... but no fragrance at all.
ok yah..forgot to mention, the leaves are a little bit sticky feeling. ... i really want to find out what this is... the fragrance is just incredible.
thanks for your help. :-)
Rumex crispus looks like the plant, or very close. I didn't know that it had a scent, but another name for the plant is Sour Dock!
It is widely naturalized in North America, and a weed in Hawai'i as well.
Although it might be in the same genus or family, Im sure its not Rumex crispus, the seedpods are much smaller. Im going to take another picture of it today. thanks everyone for your help. :-)
There are a number of different Rumex species (some native, some not) that are found in California, maybe take a look at some of the other ones and see if you can find a better match. [HYPERLINK@www.calflora.org] If you click on the name of the plant it'll show you a map of which counties in CA the plant can be found in.
yahoo... now i get it... interesting that it was formerly classed in genus of Ambrosia... i get that feeling when i smell it... :-)
thanks so much, i thought it would never be possible to id this plant.
"Jerusalem Oak Goosefoot (Chenopodium botrys), also called Feathered Geranium, is a flowering plant in the genus Chenopodium, the goosefoots. It is native to the Mediterranean region.
The plant has a strong scent, reminiscent of stock cubes, and can be used as a flavouring in cooking. It is cultivated as a hardy annual by gardeners.
Jerusalem Oak Goosefoot was formerly classed in the genus Ambrosia, with the binomial name Ambrosia mexicana. It is naturalised in the United States and Mexico, the synonym deriving from the latter."
