I was recently in the Boundary Waters, and noted a plant with blue berries, that were clearly not blueberry plants. The berries were on a stalk about a foot high and the leaves were low to the ground. ANy ideas? Googling ‘blue’ berries or anything of the sort is not working.
How do the fruits grow? One to a stalk or more? What kind of blue, light or dark?
What did the leaves look like? Were there leaves on the fruiting stalks?
I have wildflowers in my yard that produce a single shiny darkish blue seed pod per stalk that some could mistake for a blueberry. The leaves are similar to lily of the valley. False Solomon’s Seal comes to mind but I’ll have to do a bit of sleuthing.
linkie
https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/false-solomon’s-seal-false-spikenard
False Solomon’s Seal has red berries.
Solomon’s Seal has dark blue. Mine are in a mishmash bed of wildflowers so I still may be wrong on the id. Once the flowers fade I can’t tell one plant from another. But one of them definitely has blue berries.
Blue Bead Lilly
Yes;)
I was looking for something with white flowers; no wonder I couldn’t find it. I do have False Solomon’s Seal, too. That was a silly answer, as the leaves and flowers are totally different.:smack:
I’m late to the party, but yes, that’s what I would have suspected. I grew up in Manitoba and my family did a lot of camping near Lake of the Woods when I was growing up. That plant is all over the place in the boreal forest.
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Blue Bead Lilly
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On a related note, this thread reminds of this scene from “Taxi”.