That leaf photo doesn't resemble C. p. so much now and might be closer to C. r. Here, the C.r. has thin, wiry roots and some are easy to pull but those wiry roots could be connected to an underground tuber-like root. Hard to say.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money. Cree proverb