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[UGUIDE]

Location: Charles Mix County SD

I was doing some clipping of deer plots and came across this little spot we had seeded last year in a perennial and annuals. The thing was loaded with grasshoppers, moths, butterflies and also a brood of pheasants.

The main plant in their was a spectacular blue flowered plant. After picking up a clipping it looked similar to antive alfalfa but had way more buds on the stem and the flowers were big and blue.

What is it? I did a little detective work on the seed but we planted 2 different bags of stuff.







The stuff on left is from the food plot and ones on right are from a neighbors alfalfa field

[Jeager]

Looks like one of the Chicory's: http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?...in_003_avp.jpg


There's some Yellow Sweet Clover in that mix also.

[letemgrow]

Its what I call chicory too.

[smsmith]

yep, chicory and sweetclover

Not sure on the last pic - tough to tell if those blooms are purplish?

[UGUIDE]

You guys are right. It is chicory. I have planted chicory before in deer plots but never had it bloom like that. It does look very similar to alfalfa when you lay it down next to each other. I can see why deer like it. Makes excellent pheasant nesting and brood rearing to as it was loaded with hoppers and other bugs.

Thanks!!

[criggster]

Originally Posted by UGUIDE

You guys are right. It is chicory. I have planted chicory before in deer plots but never had it bloom like that. It does look very similar to alfalfa when you lay it down next to each other. I can see why deer like it. Makes excellent pheasant nesting and brrokd rearing to as it was loaded with hoppers and other bugs.

Thanks!!

You are confusing the wild variety with the cultivated kind. Two totally different species.

[Swamp_Ghost]

Originally Posted by criggster

You are confusing the wild variety with the cultivated kind. Two totally different species.

Agreed, either way the deer on my place wont touch either one

[criggster]

Same here they will nip the tops of the cultivated type a little, but haven't really took a liking to it and neither have I.

[UGUIDE]

Originally Posted by criggster

You are confusing the wild variety with the cultivated kind. Two totally different species.

That's helpful. Biologic must be the cultivated kind which I have planted at the deer shack in WI. Deer do eat the tops.

Must be the wild stuff in the photos which came up in plots in SD.