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Cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum)

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I was eating some cup plant seeds today. Cup plant is a lovely, hardy, sunflower-like perennial, with edible leaves but few mention that the seeds are edible too. They taste, more or less, like sunflower seeds. And they look like them too, if a little flatter and wider. Of course, the number per head is much, much less, in addition to the per-square-meter yield. But I thought I would bring them up as a possibility for perennial sunflower alternatives.

And, of course, they are beautiful plants!

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M Ljin

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The flower buds are also an excellent vegetable. They get big and aren’t tough. Should I compare them to sunflowery-tasting brussels sprouts?

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Silphium perfoliatum is considered a potential energy crop plant, especially because it has low demands on the climate, the soil and previous crop and produces high amounts of biomass.

I believe we call this plant Compass plants. Pretty yellow flowers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium_perfoliatum

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I know this plant!
I did not know it's edibility though.
It grows along a gravel road we like to walk during the summer.
Now I want to get over there to see if it's gone to seed yet!

A lot of our summer walks are along the same paths so we watch things green up, bloom and go to seed...this was one that stood out as it gets large and kind of bushy.

thanks for posting about it😊

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