Wild Edible Plants

Question 1

Arrow head

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Aspen

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Birch

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Brambles

Answer 4

Raspberry and blackberry

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

Question 5

Buckthorn

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Cat tails

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Clovers

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Dandelions

Answer 8

Leaves can be used in salads

Roots can be ground for coffee or tea

Question 9

Goldenrod

Answer 9

High in vitamin c

Can be steeped for tea
GALL in stem with larva inside

Question 10

Ground cherry

Answer 10

Papery husk
Berries ripe when yellow
Can be made into ham

LEAVES AND GREEN BERRIES POISONOUS

Question 11

Hazelnut

Answer 11

Nut encased

Can be eaten raw or cooked

Question 12

Jewel weed

Answer 12

Touch me not

Juicy in the stem can be used to relieve sting

Seeds high in protein

Question 13

Juniper

Answer 13

The blue black Berries are good for seasoning meats

Question 14

Milkweed

Answer 14

Boiled for 15 minutes, change water

Monarch butterflies eat this

Question 15

Mint family

Answer 15

Square stem

Tea or salads

Question 16

Mullein

Answer 16

biennial

Make a tea

Question 17

Nightshade

Answer 17

Bittersweet

Attractive berries but they are poisonous

Question 18

Red oak

Answer 18

Pointed lobes

Question 19

White oak

Answer 19

Rounded lobes

Question 20

Bur oak

Answer 20

Large terminal lobe

Question 21

Plantain

Answer 21

Use the leaves when they are very young

Use in salad or cook with butter

Question 22

Puffball fungi

Answer 22

Pure white inside

Question 23

Purslane

Answer 23

Common weed in lawns and sidewalks

Question 24

Ragweed

Answer 24

Found in disturbed soil

Hard black seeds ground into flour

Question 25

Solomon seal

Answer 25

Berries poisonous | Rootstock edible year round

Question 26

Spruces

Answer 26

Chewing gum

Question 27

Staghorn sumac

Answer 27

Unpleasant raw berries

Question 28

Stringing nettles

Answer 28

Itch weed Formic acid!! Boil leaves Indians used stems to make rope

Question 29

Strawberry

Answer 29

Rich in vitamin

Question 30

Thistle

Answer 30

Leaves edible when boiled

Question 31

Virginia creeper

Answer 31

POISONOUS berries are dark purple Compound leaves are 5 and whorled

Question 32

Walnut

Answer 32

Collect nuts when they fall to the ground | Sap used for syrup

Question 33

Wild cherries

Answer 33

Fruits can be eaten raw but best when cooked Wilted leaves and fresh seeds contain cyanide

Question 34

Wild grapes

Answer 34

Green fruit contains natural pectin | Jelly or grape juice

Question 35

Sorrel

Answer 35

Clover with yellow flowers Pleasantly sour

Question 36

Spotted knapweed

Answer 36

Grows in disturbed areas Sap of stem cause tumors

Question 37

Garlic mustard

Answer 37

Woodland invasive plant tends to take over an ecosystem

Question 38

Buckthorn

Answer 38

Invasive tree that takes over an ecosystem | Dark berries poisonous

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Square stem

Question 40

Fungi that is distinguished by having no stalk or gills

Answer 40

Puffball mushroom

Question 41

The berries from the shrub make a delightful lemon flavored tea

Answer 41

Sumac

Question 42

What part of the plant is highest in calories

Answer 42

Seeds

Question 43

What biological adaptation allows aspen to flutter in the wind

Answer 43

Flat stem

Question 44

Leaves that have multiple leaflets on a single stalk

Answer 44

Compound

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Bi annual

Question 46

Indians use this flower for sore throat remedy

Answer 46

Golden rod

Question 47

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

Answer 47

White pine

Question 48

Trees that lose their leaves in the fall

Answer 48

Deciduous

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Tania acid

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Perselane

Question 51

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

Answer 51

Sour

Question 52

What part of the cattail is edible

Answer 52

Roots