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Pokeweed: Poison, Edible, Medicinal & Other Uses
Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana, is a poisonous plant but if it is prepared properly it can be edible. It has been used by both American Indian’s and in western herbal medicine as an emetic, cathartic,...
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Wild Parsnip: Edible, Medicinal & Cautions
Wild Parsnip, Pastinaca sativa, is an edible plant that can give you a rash worse than Poison Ivy and the redness can last for months. So if you’re around this plant and you have been sweeting avoid or...
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Tall Ironweed: Edible, Medicinal & Other Uses
Tall Ironweed, Vernonia altissima, a plant of late summer with interesting little purple flowers in a dense head. This particular species has not been identified or used for any specific purpose but it...
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Spiny-Leaved Sow Thistle: Edible & Medicinal
Spiny-Leaved Sow Thistle, Sonchus asper, you can find this thistle almost all year and it was used for both its edible and medicinal properties. You can find it in fields, waste places and even in...
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White Vervain: Medicinal & Cautions
White Vervain, Verbena urticifolia, is an easily overlooked flower of summer because the flowers are small and only a few open at a time. The flowers grow in spikes, the leaves are opposite, coarsely...
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Great Burdock: Edible, Medicinal, Cautions & Other Uses
Great Burdock, Arctium lappa, is a common weed to waste places and roadsides known for it prickly burs. But what this wildflower lacks in beauty, it makes up for in practical use. The leaves, stalks...
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Passionflower: Edible, Medicinal & Cautions
Passionflower, Passiflora incarnata, also known as Maypop is a fruiting vine with a lemon flavor that has amazing and beautiful flowers. The fruit turns yellow when ripe and can be made into a juice...
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Common Ragweed: Caution, Medicinal & Other Uses
Common Ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, is a plant scorned by allergy suffers everywhere. But did you know it was historically used by both western culture and American Indians as a healing plant?...
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Giant Puffball: Cautions, Edible, Medicinal & Other Uses
Giant Puffball, Calvatia gigantea, one of the four safe mushrooms to forage, but forager be warned! There are no foolproof methods for determining edible or poisonous mushrooms. Make sure the interior...
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Black Medick: Cautions, Edible & Medicinal
Black Medick, or known by its Latin name as Medicago lupulina, is a member of the Pea Family. Its lifespan is either an annual or a short lived perennial and the plant sprawls out along the ground...
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