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National Park Mystery Plant 14: Satan Takes a Hike

Boy Scout Tree Trail, Redwood National & State Parks. If you were to see pock marks at regular intervals along a trail like this one, would you wonder if Satan might have made them? Bob Janiskee photo.

Visualizing a briskly-paced hike will help you identify this month's national park Mystery Plant. The identity of the plant is hidden in this little rhyme:

Pocking the ground at every 4th step, Satan hikes the trail with remarkable pep.

Be sure to check back with Traveler tomorrow for the answer and an explanation of the clues.

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Would it be either Devils walking stick Aralia spinosa) or Devils Club. MB


Devil's walking stick it is. Good job, MaryBeth.


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