Edible Wild Plants

BEFORE EATING ANY TYPE OF WILD PLANT YOU MUST KNOW WHAT THEY ARE!

NEVER EAT SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE NOT 100% SURE ABOUT! 

Cattail 

· You can boil or eat raw the rootstock, or rhizomes, of the plant. The rootstock is usually found underground. Make sure to wash off all the mud. The best part of the stem is near the bottom where the plant is mainly white. Either boil or eat the stem raw. Boil the leaves like you would spinach. The corn dog-looking female flower spike can be broken off and eaten like corn on the cob in the early summer when the plant is first developing. It actually has a corn-like taste to it.

Dandelion

· The dandelion is high in calcium and is rich in vitamins A and C. You can eat the leaves raw or cooked and the roots need to be boiled or roasted. If you boil the roots you can then drink the water like a tea.

Wild Onion

· The bulb in the ground is edible.

Blackberries

· The berries of a blackberries bush are edible.

Clover

· This is a wild edible plant everyone knows. The clover leafs are delicious in salads or juices. Clovers are a valuable survival food, as they are high in protein, widespread, and abundant. They are not easy to digest raw, but this can be easily fixed by juicing them. Dried flower heads and seed pods can also be ground up into nutritious flour and mixed with other foods. Dried flower heads can also be steeped in hot water for a healthy, tasty tea.

Honeysuckle

Sweet honey flavor. Only the flowers are edible. 

NOTE: Berries are highly poisonous - Do not eat them!