Native edible plants of North America

May 10, 2022 09:47:57

Here it is!
After a whole lot of research - the developing list of Edible plants of the Continental US. Please feel free to reply to this thread for additional comments and suggestions for adding to the table.

**This is a work in progress, please do your own research when trying new foods**

Common Name	Latin Name (plus related native species)	Edible parts	Additional Notes	Region
Agave	Agave Americana; Asperrima; Chrysantha; Deserti; Palmeri; Parryi; Shawii; Utahensis	Flowers, stalks, sap for syrup, leaves of some species; fermentable	Possible that some species of Agave may make one mildly ill. Tried not to include any which did. Neither Floridian species is believed edible.	Southern California, east to Texas & north into the Great Basin. Also, Florida,
Alligator Apple	Annona Glabra	Fruit		Florida
American Licorice	Glycyrrhiza Lepidota	Root	May cause high blood pressure	Northeastern US, eastern Canada
American Lotus	Nelumbo Lutea	Seeds, root Leaves also used to wrap food for traditional baking,	invasive to some regions	northeastern US, eastern Canada
American Lovage	Ligusticum Canadense	Leaves	Endangered in some places	Northern US, eastern Canada
American Sea Rocket	Cakile Edentula	Leaves		Northern Atlantic Coastal regions
Atlantic Camas, Wild Hyacinth	Camassia Scilloides	Root	A poisonous lookalike occurs in SE states called Death Camas	eastern US, eastern Canada
Basswood, Linden	Tilia	Leaves, flowers	Tender leaves, but not very interesting flavor. Flowers for tea.	eastern US, eastern Canada
Bayberry/ Bog Myrtle	Myrica Gale; Pensylvanica; Caroliniensis	Fruit &/ or leaves	only Bog Myrtle fruit usable as spice. Bayberry fruit has consistency of wax & powder. Leaves of Bayberry good.	eastern US, eastern Canada
Bearberry, Manzanita, Kinnikinnick	Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi	Berries, leaves	Northern US, West coast, southern Canada
Beautyberry	Callicarpa Americana	Fruit		Southern US, below Ohio River & up east coast to Maryland
Beech	Fagus	Nuts		all
Bergamots	Monarda
Bitterroot	Lewisia Rediviva	Root
Black Locust	Robina Pseudoacacia	Flowers for tea	Can also be fermented	east coast, southeastern US
Black Nightshade	Solanum Americanum	Greens	Communities where regular consumption of nightshade exists also happen to have an unnaturally high occurrence of throat cancer
Black Tree Lichen	Bryoria Fremontii	Greens		Rocky Mountains
Bladdernut	Staphylea Trifolia	Nuts	Technically safe, but may be too hard for human consumption
Blow Wife	Achyrachaena Mollis	Seeds		west coast
Blueberry/ Western Huckleberry/ Farkleberry	Vaccinium Corymbosum; Membranaceum; Arboreum, etc	Fruit		all
Brook Lettuce	Micranthes Micranthidifolia	Leaves		southeastern us
Buckbean	Menyanthes Trifoliata	Root	Bitter
Buckeye	Aesculus	Nuts	Same rules apply as oaks’ acorns	all
Buckwheat, Smartweed	Polygonum	Shoots, seeds		all
Buffaloberry	Shepherdia Canadensis	Fruit		Mississippi River Valley, Great Plains, Pacific Northwest
Bunchberry	Cornus Canadensis	Fruit	Technically Edible, though not good
Butternut, White Walnut/ Black Walnut	Juglans	Nuts	Use gloves when removing outer fruit. Colorless, odorless juices will stain skin black. Near impossible to remove.
Cabbage Palm, Carolina Palm	Sabal Palmetto	Heart		Coastal regions from Texas to South Carolina
Calamint, Wild Basil/ Wild Savory	Clinopodium Vulgare; Calamintha Arkansana	Leaves as spice	Eating raw not recommended. Hairy leaves with consistency of hairball, but good flavor. Vulgare tastes like basil, whereas the other is minty.
Canadian Honewort	Cryptotaenia Canadensis	Whole plant
Carolina Buckthorn	Frangula Caroliniana	Fruit
Cattail	Typha	Shoots, root	Roots soaked in water make gel. Used for cornbread batter in lieu of milk.
Chia	Salvia Hispanica	Seeds
Chinkapin	Chrysolepis Chrysophylla	Nuts		west coast
Cherries	Prunus Serotina	Fruit	Trees leech arsenic into environment	all
Chili Pepper	Capsicum Annuum Glabriusculum	Fruit		New Mexico to Louisiana
Chokeberry, Aronia	Arona Melanocarpa	Fruit
Chokecherry	Prunus Virginiana	Fruit	Fruit of Chokecherry's harvest time is entirely variable. Always turns black about a month before ready to harvest.
Clearweed/ Stinging Nettle	Pilea Pumila; Urtica Dioica	Greens	Always cook Stinging Nettle to wilt spines. Clearweed does not have this issue
Cocoplum	Chrysobalanus Icaco	Fruit		Florida
Common Milkweed	Asclepias Syriaca	Young fruits, shoots	Only Common Milkweed is considered safe.
Cow Parsnip	Heracleum Maximum	Root	Extremely wide variety of both edible & poisonous lookalikes. Sap causes chemical burn when exposed to sunlight.
Crabapple	Malus	Fruit	Keep away from Red Cedar to avoid deadly fungal infections	all
Cranberry	Vaccinium Macrocarpon	Fruit
Cream Cup	Platystemon Californicus	Leaves		west coast
Creeping Cucumber	Melothria Pendula	Immature fruit	Fully mature fruit is diarrhetic	southeastern US
Creek Plum	Prunus Rivularis	Fruit	Unpalatably bitter	Ohio River, Southern Great Plains
Crow berry/ rock berry	Empetrum Nigrum; Eamesii	Fruit		Alaska, extreme Northern New England
Currants	Ribes Aureum; Triste; Americanum	Fruit	Wrong species too close to certain pines can spread deadly fungal infections to them	all
Dandelion	Krigia Dandelion	Whole plant	Native dandelions sprout earlier than invasive ones, but are less numerous. Good aid for controlling diabetes as tea.	all
Deerberry	Vaccinium Stamineum	Fruit	Unreliably variable in flavor & often highly sour	Eastern US
Devil’s Claw	Proboscidea Louisianica	Fruit, seeds		Texas-Louisiana area
Dewberry	Rubus Aboriginum; Depavitus; Flagellaris; Hispidus; Invisus; Ursinus; Trivialis	Fruit		all
Dogbane, Indian Hemp	Apocynum Cannabinum	Seeds
Dulse	Palmaria Palmata	Leaves
Eastern Hemlock	Tsuga Canadensis	tips for tea	can be fermented
Eastern Redbud	Cercis Canadensis	Flowers, beans
Eastern Red Cedar	Juniperus Virginiana	Fruit	Only females produce fruit, & only harvest every other year. Keep away from apples, Hawthorn & Serviceberry to avoid spreading deadly fungal infections to them
Eastern Red Columbine	Aquilegia Canadensis	Nectar
Elderberry	Sambucus Canadensis; Cerulea	Fruit	Similar appearance to Devil’s Walking Stick. Red Elderberry is poisonous.
Fairybell	Prosartes Hookeri	Fruit
False Solomon’s Seal, Treacleberry	Maianthemum Racemosum	Shoots, berries in small doses	Easily confused with Solomon’s Seal & Twisted Stalk. Berries can be laxative.
Ferns	Athyrium Filix-Femina; Osmunda Cinnamomea; Polypodium Glycyrrhiza	Fiddleheads	Only certain species can be eaten.
Figs	Ficus Aurea; Citrifolia	Fruit		Florida
Fireweed	Chamaenerion Angustifolium	Flower
Florida Pennyroyal	Piloblephis Rigida	Leaves		Florida
Gaylussacia, Eastern Black Huckleberry	Gaylussacia Baccata	Fruit	Similar flavor to blueberries, which it often grows alongside.
Giant River Cane, Bamboo	Arundinaria Gigantea	Shoots		Southern Appalachia & Ohio River Valley
Goji berry, wolf berry, silverberry, Christmas berry	Lycium Carolinianum; Berlandieri; Pallidum; Californicum; Cooperi; Excertum; Texanum	Fruit		Western & southeastern states
Gooseberry	Ribes Cynosbati; Rotundifolium; Hirtellum; Missouriensis; etc	Fruit	Along with currants, wrong species can spread deadly fungus to pines.
Gopher Apple	Licania Michauxii	Fruit		southeastern US
German Rampion, Primrose	Oenothera Biennis	Whole plant
Ginger, Coltsfoot	Asarum Canadense	Root
Goldenrod	Solidago	Younger plants
Grapes	Vitis Labrusca; Rotundifolia; Mustangensis	Juice	Mistakable for various inedible plants, like Raccoon Grape or Moonseed
Greenbriar	Smilax	Shoots	Thorny climber with distinctive, dark, jungle green coloration
Groundcherry	Physalis Virginiana	Fruit	Some lesser known native species have small, hard, inedible fruit
Groundcone	Boschniakia Rossica			west coast
Groundplum	Astragalus Crassicarpus			Great Plains
Gum Bully	Sideroxylon Lanuginosum	Fruit		Southern Mississippi River Valley
Hackberry	Celtis Occidentalis; Tenufolia	Fruit
Harbinger of Spring, Salt & Pepper	Erigenia Bulbosa	Root
Hawthorn	Crataegus	Fruit		all
Hazelnut, Filbert	Corylus	Nut
Hickory	Carya	Nut		all
Hogpeanut	Amphicarpaea Bracteata	Fruit	Invasive on West coast, endangered on east coast. Good forest soil builder.	eastern US, invasive on west coast
Hollies (Youpon, Appalachian Tea)	Ilex Vomitoria; Glabra	Leaves for tea		Yaupon in Florida, Appalachian Tea in Appalachian Mtns
Honeyberry, fly honeysuckle	Lonicera Caerulea	Fruit
Honey Locust	Gleditsia Triacanthos	Flowers for tea, goop in seed pods	Flowers can also be fermented	Appalachian Plateau, west to great plains
Hops	Humulus Lupulus	Buds
Hoptree, Wafer Ash	Ptelea Trifoliata	Seeds	Used as replacement in brewing beer in lieu of hops
Hyssop	Hyssopus	Leaves
Indian Cucumber	Medeola Virginiana	Root
Indian Potato, Groundnut, Potato Bean, Hopniss, Cinnamon Vine, Hodoimo	Apios Americana; Priceana	Whole plant	Only produces properly from root balls. Roots only harvested every 2-3 years.
Indian Spice	Vitex Agnus-Castus	Fruit as spice
Jack in the Pulpit/ Green Dragon	Arisaema Triphyllum; Dracontium	Root
Jerusalem Artichoke	Helianthus Tuberosus	Root
Kentucky Coffeetree	Gymnocladus Dioicus	Seeds	Complicated process involving roasting to make edible. Natives used to serve as a bean soup.	Kentucky to Great Lakes
Kouse, Biscuit root	Lomatium	Root
Lake Cress	Rorippa Aquatica	Leaves	Cooking always recommended to avoid potential parasites.
Leadplant	Amorpha Canescens
Leatherleaf	Chamaedaphne Calyculata	Leaves for tea	Make sun tea only. Never boil to avoid poisoning.
Lilies, Wild (Canadian, Turk’s Cap, Michigan, Western Red, etc)	Lilium Superbum; Canadense; Michiganense; Philadelphicum	Root	Closely related to invasive Tiger Lilies, which are also edible in same way	all
Lingonberry	Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea	Fruit		northwestern extremes
Little Barley Pampa Grass	Hordeum Pusillum	Grain
Locust berry	Byrsonima Lucida	Fruit		Florida
Magnolia	Magnolia	Fruit		Eastern US
Maple	Acer	Sap for syrup & sugar		all
Marsh Elder Grass; Sumpweed	Iva Annua Macrocarpa	Grain		Great Plains
Marsh Marigold, Cowslip	Caltha Palustris
Mayapple	Podophyllum Peltatum	Fruit	Forest critter favorite, so hard to get one. Do not eat rind or seeds. Pick fruit when plant starts wilting.
Maygrass	Phalaris Caroliniana	Grain		southeastern US
Mayhaw	Crataegus Aestivales	Fruit
Maypop	Passiflora Incarnata	Fruit		Southeastern US, up into Southern Ohio
Mesae-Verde Cactus	Sclerocactus Mesae-Verde	Fruit
Mesquite	Prosopis	Bean
Milkvetch	Astragalus Canadensis	Root	Can absorb contamination from soil
Miner’s Lettuce	Claytonia Perfoliata	Sprouts		west coast
Mint	Blephilia Ciliata; Pycnanthemum Verticillatum; Mentha Canadensis; etc	Leaves
Morning Glory, Wild Sweet Potato	Ipomoea Pandurata	Root
Mountain Rice	Oryzopsis	Grain		Appalachia
Mulberry	Morus Rubra	Fruit
Navajo Spinach	Peritoma Serrulata
Northern Bedstraw, Stickywilly	Galium Boreale
Oak	Quercus	Acorns	Must be processed to remove tannins	All
Ocotillo	Fauquieria Splendens			southwest
Onions (Ramps, Nodding Onion, Meadow Garlic, etc)	Allium	Roots, stalks, leaves		all
Oregon Grape	Mahonia Aquifolia	Fruit		west coast, but introduced in Appalachia
Orinoco Jute	Corchorus Hirtus
Osage Orange, Bodark, Monkeybrain	Maclura Pomifera	Seeds		Arkasas, Oklahoma, Texas area
Osoberry	Oemalaria Cerasiformis	Fruit		west coast
Oyster leaf	Mertensia Maritima	Leaves
Ozark Wild Gourd	Cucurbita Pepo Ozarkana	Fruit		area between Missouri & Ohio Rivers
Pacific Madrone	Arbutus Menziensii	Juice		west coast
Papaw, Hillbilly Mango	Asimina Triloba	Fruit
Partridge berry, eyeberry	Mitchella Repens	Fruit
Peas (American Butterfly, etc)	Clitoria Mariana	Seeds	Note some members of pea family are poisonous
Pecan	Carya Illinoiensis	Nuts		Southern Illinois, Indiana, Southern US
Persimmon	Diospyros Virginiana	Fruit		Eastern US, excluding northernmost reaches
Pickerelweed	Pontederia Lanceolata	Stalks, flowers
Pigeon Plum; Sea Grape Bush	Coccoloba Diversifolia; Uvifera	Fruit		Florida
Pincherry, Fire Cherry	Prunus Pensylvanica	Fruit
Pine	to be added	Nuts, sap for chewing gum, tips for jelly		all
Plum	Prunus Allegheniensis; Hortulana; etc	Fruit
Pokeweed	Phytolacca Americana	Greens	Boil in three changes of water to nullify poison
Prairie Mimosa	Desmanthus Illinoensis	Leaves
Prairie Parsley	Polytaenia Nuttallii
Prairie Potato; Hognut	Conopodium Majus	Root
Prairie Tea	Croton Monathogynus	Leaves	Many croton species are poisonous. Crotons once used as bug bombs by throwing roots into fire. Seeds cannot be sold as they die too quickly.
Prickly Pear Cactus, tuna, nopales	Opuntia	Fruit, leaves
Purplestem Angelica	Angelica Atropurpurea	Stalks
Quinoa, Goosefoot	Chenopodium	Seeds
Raspberry/ Blackberry/ Salmonberry/ Cloudberry	Rubus	Fruit
Red Huckleberry	Vaccinium Parvifolium	Fruit
Redroot ???		Seeds	Lost the plant’s data. Is neither New Jersey Tea or Amaranth.	Grows in southwest.
Rock Cress	Boechera Laevigata	Leaves
Rowan Berry	Sorbus	Fruit
Sage	Salvia	Stalk, leaves
Saguaro Cactus	Carnegiea Gigantea	Fruit
Salal	Gaultheria Shallon
Saltbush	Atriplex	Leaves
Samphire Greens, Glasswort, Pickleweed	Salicornia Maritima; Virginica; Bigelovii	Shoots
Sand Cherry	Prunus Pumila	Fruit	Three subspecies native to East coast, great lakes & great plains.
Sassafras, Filè	Sassafras Albidum	Leaves
Saw Palmetto	Serenoa Repens	Fruit
Sea Grape Vine	Cissus Rotundifolia	Fruit
Senna	Senna obtusifolia	Leaves
Serviceberry, June berry, Saskatoon	Amalanchlier	Fruit
Shooting Star	Dodecatheon Hendersonii	Root
Shorebay	Persea Borbonia	Leaves
Silverberry	Elaeagnus Commutata	Fruit
Skunk Cabbage	Symplocarpus Foetidus	Shoots	Young shoots contain a crystallized chemical which tastes spicy, but can cause internal bleeding. Definitely fry & possibly boil first. Never pick after leaves unfurl.
Solomon’s Seal	Polygonatum Biflorum	Roots, shoots
Sourberry	Rhus Trilobata	Fruit
Sourwood	Oxydendrum Arboreum	Flowers for tea
Spicebush Laurel	Lindera Benzoin	Fruit, leaves	Preferably dry & soak in water/ wet ingredients. Actual ingestion could lead to formation of cyanide in gut & death.
Spikenard	Aralia Racemosa; Nudicaulis	Fruit, root	Various species of Aralia across US are not all edible in same way, some not edible at all.
Strawberry Blite	Blitum Capitatum	Fruit, leaves
Strawberry	Fragaria	Fruit
Sumac	Rhus	Fruit
Sweet Anise	Osmorhiza Longistylis	Leaves, seeds
Sweetflag	Acorus Calamus	Shoots, root	Very poisonous & requires precise prep. Illegal to sell as food in US.
Sweetvetch	Hedysarum Alpinum	Root
Texas Persimmon	Diospyros Texana	Fruit
Thyme-Leaved Spurge	Euphorbia Serpyllifolia	Leaves
Tinpsila, Indian Breadroot	Psoralea Esculenta	Root
Tobacco Root	Valeriana Edulis	Root
Tockwogh, Tuckahoe	Peltandra Virginica	Root
Toothwort	Cardamine	Root, leaves
Torreya	Torreya Californica; Taxifolia	Nuts
Toyon, Christmas Berry	Heteromeles Arbutifolia	Fruit
Trailing Wild Bean	Strophostyles Helvola	Whole plant
Triplet Lily	Triteleia Laxa	Bulb
Trout Lily	Erythronium Americanum	Bulb
Tule, Bulrush	Schoenoplectus Acutus; Tabermontani
Tupelo	Nyssa Sylvatica; Aquatica; Ogeche; etc	Fruit
Viburnum (Nannyberry, Black Haw, American Cranberrybush)	Viburnum	Fruit
Violet	Viola	Flowers
Virginia Dwarf Plantain	Plantago Virginica	Leaves
Virginia Pepperweed	Lepidium Virginicum	Leaves
Virginia Sweetspire	Itea Virginica	Seeds
Virginia Waterleaf	Hydrophyllum Virginianum	Young leaves
Wapato, Duck Potato	Sagittaria	Root
Water Horehound, American Bugleweed, Gypsywort	Lycopus Americanus	Leaves, roots
Water Parsnip	Sium Suave	Root	Easy to confuse with poison Hemlock if only looking at flower
Western Black Huckleberry	Vaccinium Membranaceum	Fruit
White Alder	Alnus Rhombifolia	Catkins
White Avens	Geum Canadense	Root	For alcohol
White Chervil	Chaerophyllum Procumbens	Root
Wild Kidney Bean	Phaseolus polystachios	Whole plant	Primary ancestor to all Native American bean varieties north of Mexico
Wild Parsley	Musineon Divaricatum	Root
Wild Rice	Zizania Aquatica	Grain
Wild Rose	Rosa	Fruit
Wild Tansymustard	Descurainia Pennata
Wintercress, Yellowrocket	Barbara Orthoceras	Stalk, leaves
Wintergreen, Checkerberry, Teaberry	Gaultheria Procumbens	Leaves, fruit
Wormwood	Artemisia Alaskana; Biennis; Californica; Carruthii; Ludoviciana; Tilesii	Leaves, seeds	Not all species edible in the same way, some not edible at all. Related to Tarragon.
Yampah	Perideridia	Root, leaves, stalk	Root is highly laxative when undercooked. Different parts have wildly varying tastes.
Yarrow Achillea	Millefolium	Leaves
Yellow Pond Lily	Nuphar Lutea	Root	Technically Edible, though taste & texture are both excruciatingly bad. Potential luck with boiling in milk & honey, however.
Yerba Buena	Clinopodium Douglasii
Yerba Santa	Eriodictyon Califnornicum
Yucca	Yucca

May 11, 2022 06:21:53

some clarifications:

Chrysolepis chrysophylla is a western species, common name chinkapin, but in the east, chinkapin is the common name for the smallest Castanea species, Castanea pumila. both edible.

for Typhus/cattails, pollen and young flowerheads are popular edible uses

would love to see sochan/Rudbeckia laciniata on the list, wild greens.

feeling a little apprehensive about editing the table myself at the moment.

May 11, 2022 08:07:32

Yeah, there's still a bit of work to be done on what's already here, too. I'll be slowly getting to it over the next couple of weeks, if it even takes me that long. Thanks for the input.

May 15, 2022 19:05:06

A fairly comprehensive list of food plants in North America was compiled and published in 1936. It contains 1,112 species. Some of the latin names have changed in the past century, but a quick search should turn up the current classification.

Here's a link to the publication: https://bit.ly/FoodPlantsNorthAmercianIndians

May 20, 2022 06:20:14

Is it meant to be North America or the continental U.S.?

I made some notes/additions on the plants I'm familiar with. Do you want those in a post here on the thread, or as a PM?

May 20, 2022 09:12:51

I originally had it at Continental US & Alaska, which means Canada is automatically included as well. Never bothered with Latin America or the Caribbean.

May 20, 2022 09:15:19

Anything anyone wants to throw up on here is helpful. Myself &/ or the moderators will do our best to include it.

May 20, 2022 11:11:05

Some additional notes:

(Basswood, Linden)
Flowers used in tea

(Myrica Gale; Pensylvanica; Caroliniensis)
Myrica gale dried fruits used as a spice/seasoning, leaves used in tea; in addition to bog myrtle we more commonly call it sweetgale (not bayberry)

(Bergamots)
I would add bee balm as a common name for Monarda didyma & fistulosa; used for tea, seasoning, edible flowers

(Bunchberry)
Bunchberry might not taste that great, but at least is perfectly safe and doesn’t taste bad (unlike many on this list that require specific processing to be safe and/or palatable). Helps set preserves of sweeter fruits with lower pectin.

(Chokeberry, Aronia)
A couple other species as well

(Chokecherry/ Pincherry, Fire Cherry)
I would separate these species. P. pensylvanica is pretty sweet, so the description here doesn’t apply. (Also, P. virginiana isn’t so much bitter as it is astringent, and that timeline on astringency-ripeness is going to vary by location and just year-to-year)

(clearweed/ Stinging Nettle)
Drying (as for tea) neutralizes the spines as well. Could add Laportea canadensis, wood nettle, unless that is listed separately already. I would put under Nettle for common name rather than Clearweed, or make two separate entries, one for nettle, one for clearweed, since clearweed doesn't have spines and can be eaten raw.

(Common Milkweed)
And flower buds

(Cow Parsnip)
And shoots and leaf shoots and dried seeds

(Cranberry)
Also V. oxycoccos (often called small cranberry)

(Eastern Red Cedar)
Also common juniper, Juniperus communis - it's a bush, rather than a tree, but produces the edible juniper berries you'd collect from J. virginiana . . . easier to harvest when they're closer to the ground

(Eastern Red Columbine)
Edible flower

(False Solomon’s Seal, Treacleberry)
Also roots and young leaves; very easy to grow, shade tolerant

(Fireweed)
Flowers, leaves, immature fruit used for tea; shoots and young leaves also edible

(Goldenrod)
Shoots as a spring veggie, mature leaves dried for tea

(Greenbriar)
This is worth breaking out into different Smilax species as the descriptions and food uses vary

(Pine (Eastern Hemlock))
I'd create separate entries for pine/Pinus, spruce/Picea, fir/Abies, hemlock/Tsuga . . . their descriptions and uses differ (but seem conflated within this one entry).

(Violet)
And leaves

(Wild Rose)
And petals

May 25, 2022 09:40:42

I was updating my scouring rush and field horsetail sale thread and saw this North American edible plants thread pop up next to it in the recent thread list. Would you consider adding Scouring Rush Horsetail (equisetum hyemale) and Field Horsetail (equisetum arvense) to this list? I have included a bit of background information about them in the sale thread.

May 25, 2022 11:04:20

I didn't know those were edible. We have a Whole bunch of scouring rush by where I live. I've tried chewing on one for medicinal purposes & they don't really taste good.

But, yeah, I'll try to get everything on here. I've been trying to work on it during my lunch break at work, so I can devote time to other chores when I'm off.

May 25, 2022 11:44:02

D Tucholske wrote:I didn't know those were edible. We have a Whole bunch of scouring rush by where I live. I've tried chewing on one for medicinal purposes & they don't really taste good.

But, yeah, I'll try to get everything on here. I've been trying to work on it during my lunch break at work, so I can devote time to other chores when I'm off.

The tender young shoots are edible, while the older plants are considered medicinal.

May 25, 2022 12:10:50

I thought I read it's the fertile shoots/stems that are edible (but vegetative shoots/stems are not). I was just reading that somewhere, maybe on permies?

Mark William wrote:

D Tucholske wrote:I didn't know those were edible. We have a Whole bunch of scouring rush by where I live. I've tried chewing on one for medicinal purposes & they don't really taste good.

But, yeah, I'll try to get everything on here. I've been trying to work on it during my lunch break at work, so I can devote time to other chores when I'm off.

The tender young shoots are edible, while the older plants are considered medicinal.

May 29, 2022 06:45:47

One I skipped over before because I needed to look it up - hyssop. The genus Hyssopus isn’t native to the continental U.S. But we have some native Agastache species with common names like anise hyssop, giant hyssop.

(Some Agastache species are native to other places and may be considered invasive in some places, like Korean hyssop.)

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