Well done. That was very helpful to include the side-by-side comparison to lookalike plants. I now believe I can positively identify the 3 of them and to be able to avoid skunk cabbage. Thank you.
Finally a good video explaining it!!!! Thank you! I’ve been trying to identify what I think is burdock but haven’t been able to find a good, clear video showing the specific characteristics. Finally! It was very helpful to see what “basal rosette” meant. And the colour on the stem, and the habitat, and the hollow stem, and the leaves....ok, all of it!!! I love the side by side comparisons. It’s much easier to learn this way.
As others have said, this was very helpful, especially the side-by-side comparisons. I have a few of these unexpectedly growing in my yard this year and even though I'm pretty clueless about plants, I was pretty sure it wasn't rhubarb. My confusion was made worse by the fact that they are growing near an area of elephant ear/colocasia plants, which also have large leaves on large stalks/petioles attached to single rosettes. This video--along with the fact that the plants have small burrs--helped me determine it is in fact burdock.
I agree the intro was jarring but the video was very informative, thank you. I live in wisconsin and I LOVE RHUBARB but inly recently found out about burdock. We call it elephant ear, so I never knew it was edible burdock honestly.
So it’s literally everywhere in my yard, my driveway, it grows on the sides of sidewalks! I was literally about to order a bunch online until I decided to just look at what the plant part looks like! Lol wow! Also here in New England Dandelions are EVERYWHERE. It’s amazing what we have in our backyards!! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you. I'm trying to harvest some burdock root, but I know that rhubarb leaves are poisonous and I didn't want to confuse them. Your explanation clearly differentiates burdock from those others and I feel I can make my first attempt.
Omg! Is that you singing? I absolutely love it! This video was awesome and last weekend’s foraging event was like going to the Disney World of foragers. 🤟
We have burdock all over in our pasture! It takes over our 7 acres, if we don’t keep cutting it when it’s small! If there was a market for burdock, we could easily make money selling it!
There is certainly a market for Burdock, as it has numerous medicinal uses which are very advantageous.. Simply Google ' Medicinal uses for Burdock...this will open the door to capitalization and utilization
If you also have Rhubarb, thìs plant is additionally very useful for medicinal purposes and will likely address problems you already have or which people have a high probability of developing.. You have the Library of The World at your fingertips...use it :)
Wow, my leaves never get that big, less than half that size, I'm jealous. Great identification video. Also may see dead stalks of previous years burdock with bur heads for seed pods in center and new plans circling it. First video I've watched. Will be searching through to see how you use it, I just dug up some roots for tinctures.
I could not get rid of burdock fast enough in my old Indiana yard. Was trying to grow rhubarb and kept finding burdock choking it out. It is a real chore pulling these out of the garden! Glad to know they have a purpose I could have harvested them for though.
Jenny Chavez: both are good benefit for you Burdock and Rhubarb, burdock is more remedy, in my state i hart to fine burdock at all, they sold too expensive, another hand Rhubarb is for food & remedy, but i ate burdock stem it test like rhubarb too it is no poison for me, i am still a life, Jenny if you pull out burdock roots dried it out and you can sell on Ebey some one will buy from you belief me. bye.
brilliant very very helpful as I just picked a burdock leaf.. found out that the leaves have far more vitamins than the root but they try and tell us that it is the root that is the best.
Thanks for making this. I’ve been trying to identify a burdock plant as either greater burdock or lesser burdock (Arctium Lappa vs Arctium Minus); any tips?
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Thank you...I found a patch of one of these on my daughter's property, today...lol. I'm crossing finger it's rubarb. Can you do a vid on uses and preparation of these plants?
Nice video. Thank you for the good information. I was chuckling when you had your hands all in those nettles @ 1:19, but you kept on rolling with the video as if it wasnt even happening.
Lol. I did not even notice that until you mentioned it. Nettles don't seem to bother me much for some reason. They did when I was a kid. I remember feeling like I was on fire when I got into them. But now, it's no big deal.
Very informative...i think some parts of rhubarb are poisonous (?) Love the stem in pie THOUGH....are there any other copycats"...i found a young plants in abandons..thats why. Great video. WHAT is it good for ???? is burdock
Very well done and very technical! Good job! One quick question. Someone on another video pointed out the lighter coloring in the burdock's under side of the leaf. But is that lighter color prevalent in both young and old burdock or only the adult plants?
