TOPIC: Can you ID this companion plant ?

Hey Guys,

Got out this morning with my seng hunting partner and walked a lot of hillsides in a place we never hunted before. We ended up with around 1.5 pound green. Found mostly just decent sized 3 prongs in this place, one small 4 prong.

Glad to report that many more have red berries today. We planted a bunch of berries back and left a lot of smaller seng in that place - will definately revisit it in a few years.

I took a couple pics of a companion plant that we often find around here (Middle TN) but I have not been able to find the \"real\" name of it.

It has a very small diameter stem and is almost vine like with clusters of leaves in 3's. A pale green color.

Do any of you know what this is ?

Thanks

TNhunter

Here is another pic of it...

A nice slick-rock creek...

And took one Pic of a decent 3 pronger - we found a bunch of those.

Probably not much help but that plant looks like what my grandmother used to call \"wild peanut\"... may have just called it that for lack of another name? dunno.
Nice pic of the creek! thanks for sharing that.
congrats on the finds, glad to hear the berries are ripening and are being replanted.

Randy

Congrats Tnhunter thats a great day of digging congrats to both of you \") Im glad the berries are finaly coming along over their for you all.

I sure enjoy seeing the pictures of the creeks that you post from your area simply nice to look at.

Me and Caleb went out and got 1.2 pds today.

I think that I may be able to help you with the identification of that plant.
Rskid`s Grandmother had it rite....

The common name for this plant is - wild peanut
The Botanical name for this plant is - Cassia tora

They can be a pesty plant in fields sometimes and farmers kill them out ive read.

Randy / Billy,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

I found it online and it is actually...

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American Hogpeanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata)
Buncombe Co., NC
8 July 2006
Reported to be the host plant for Golden Banded-Skippers, hog peanut is an herbaceous vine in the pea family (Fabaceae). It is common and widespread in NC, however, the skipper is one of the rarest resident butterflies in North Carolina.
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Here is the pic I found online (there are several more out there).



TNhunter

Billy,

I did find that classia tora and it is close but does not have the 3 leaf clusters like the hogpeanut does.

Here is a image of classia tora...



TNhunter

I hadnt considered the hog peanut as a companion plant to seng but today I ran into a nice patch and stopped to look around... lo and behold there was hog peanut growing all around me. Guess I just need to open my eyes more often!

Randy

Well done tnhunter thought that was what you had found but I agree I see the differemce also.We never know what we might find out their in the woods.