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Need help starting out #3038186 02/25/12 11:08 AM 02/25/12 11:08 AM
Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 299 Iowa 1187 shooter OP trapper
1187 shooter OP trapper Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 299 Iowa	I'm 16 years old and from north east iowa. I have been interested in gathering roots when trapping season gets over. All the land around my area is very flat. I'm curious if there are any roots worth looking for and when they grow.

Re: Need help starting out [Re: 1187 shooter] #3044452 02/28/12 04:07 PM 02/28/12 04:07 PM
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 4,683 Illinois foxkidd44 trapper
foxkidd44 trapper Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 4,683 Illinois	your gonna want a good reference book to start out with. a few plants that grow up your way would be poke, black indian hemp, culvers root, butterfly milkweed, calamus/sweetflag, queen of the meadow, wild cherry bark, sassafrass root bark, sassafrass leaves. Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last. Abraham Lincoln