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Wild Edible Plants Flashcards

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Arrow head

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Duck potato
Aquatic tubers are better Raw but taste best when cooked, roasted, baked, boiled, or fried (like a potato). The tubers float which makes them easy to collect as flour

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Aspen

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Inner bark can be dried and made into flour during an emergency. The male catkin is used heavily by grouse and other wildlife

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Birch

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The sap can be made into syrup. Inner bark can be dried and made into flour during emergency. stems can be steeped in hot water for tea. Catkins (make flowers) are frequently feed on by grouse. Moose and deer browse on twigs and foliage

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Brambles

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Raspberry and blackberry

Fruits can be eaten raw or made into jam. Leaves can be used in salad or dried and steeped for tea

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Buckthorn

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An invasive tree that produces dark blue black berries. The berries are considered a cathartic which means they will purge your bowels

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Cat tails

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Young white roots and rhizomes are edible year round. Eaten like asparagus. Roots can be dried and ground into flour.

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Clovers

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High in protein and can be eaten raw or cooked. Eating too much however can cause bloating. Leaves can be dried and steeped for tea. Belongs to the legume family which puts nitrogen back into the soil

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Dandelions

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Leaves can be used in salads

Roots can be ground for coffee or tea

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Goldenrod

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High in vitamin c

Can be steeped for tea
GALL in stem with larva inside

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Ground cherry

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Papery husk
Berries ripe when yellow
Can be made into ham

LEAVES AND GREEN BERRIES POISONOUS

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Hazelnut

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Nut encased

Can be eaten raw or cooked

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Jewel weed

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Touch me not

Juicy in the stem can be used to relieve sting

Seeds high in protein

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Juniper

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The blue black Berries are good for seasoning meats

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Milkweed

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Boiled for 15 minutes, change water

Monarch butterflies eat this

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Mint family

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Square stem

Tea or salads

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Mullein

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biennial

Make a tea

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Nightshade

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Bittersweet

Attractive berries but they are poisonous

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Red oak

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Pointed lobes

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White oak

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Rounded lobes

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Bur oak

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Large terminal lobe

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21
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Plantain

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Use the leaves when they are very young

Use in salad or cook with butter

22
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Puffball fungi

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Pure white inside

23
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Purslane

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Common weed in lawns and sidewalks

24
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Ragweed

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Found in disturbed soil

Hard black seeds ground into flour

25
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Solomon seal

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Berries poisonous

Rootstock edible year round

26
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Spruces

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Chewing gum

27
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Staghorn sumac

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Unpleasant raw berries

28
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Stringing nettles

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Itch weed

Formic acid!!

Boil leaves

Indians used stems to make rope

29
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Strawberry

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Rich in vitamin

30
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Thistle

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Leaves edible when boiled

31
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Virginia creeper

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POISONOUS
berries are dark purple
Compound leaves are 5 and whorled

32
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Walnut

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Collect nuts when they fall to the ground

Sap used for syrup

33
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Wild cherries

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Fruits can be eaten raw but best when cooked

Wilted leaves and fresh seeds contain cyanide

34
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Wild grapes

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Green fruit contains natural pectin

Jelly or grape juice

35
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Sorrel

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Clover with yellow flowers

Pleasantly sour

36
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Spotted knapweed

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Grows in disturbed areas

Sap of stem cause tumors

37
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Garlic mustard

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Woodland invasive plant tends to take over an ecosystem

38
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Buckthorn

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Invasive tree that takes over an ecosystem

Dark berries poisonous

39
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What anatomical figure do plants that belong to the mint family possess

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Square stem

40
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Fungi that is distinguished by having no stalk or gills

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Puffball mushroom

41
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The berries from the shrub make a delightful lemon flavored tea

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Sumac

42
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What part of the plant is highest in calories

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Seeds

43
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What biological adaptation allows aspen to flutter in the wind

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Flat stem

44
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Leaves that have multiple leaflets on a single stalk

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Compound

45
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A plant that grows it vegetative portion one ear and flowers the second year is called?

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Bi annual

46
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Indians use this flower for sore throat remedy

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Golden rod

47
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Pine tree that her needles in clusters of 5 and sap can be candied

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White pine

48
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Trees that lose their leaves in the fall

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Deciduous

49
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Name the acid that is abundant in Red Oak acorns and makes them taste bitter

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Tania acid

50
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Name a common edible plant that often grows in the cracks of sidewalks

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Perselane

51
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Wood sorrel is a common weed in gardens how does it taste

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Sour

52
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What part of the cattail is edible

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Roots

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