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		pugworthy on July 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plants that are signs of former human settlements More recent but one can see lots of daffodils around old homestead sites in various places in the Willamette Valley. Also old apple trees in the middle of nowhere .

Loughla on July 27, 2023 [–]

Way more recent, but if you see forsythias in the Midwest without a house around, there was a settlers home there at some point.

We found an old foundation after digging around where there were forsythias growing in the woods on our place after being keyed into that one.

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