Liliaceae/Lily family

Bluebead Lily – Clintonia Borealis: Edible & Medicinal Uses of Poisonberry of Wild Plants

Bluebead Lily – Clintonia Borealis

Bluebead lily (Clintonia borealis) has toxic berries, but it’s still an edible and medicinal wild plant. It’s gorgeous too, with pretty yellow flowers and stunning blue berries that form a gradient and marbled cluster of blue as they ripen. Corn lily AKA bluebead lily is common around Halliburton in deciduous or mixed woods on moist …

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Trout Lily – Erythronium Americanum: Edible & Medicinal Uses of the Spotted Ephemeral Wild Plant

Trout Lily - Erythronium Americanum

Trout lily (Erythronium americanum), widespread in my area of Ontario, is one of the first edible and medicinal plants to come up in the Spring. But it doesn’t stay for long! A spring ephemeral (which means it springs up and then goes away far too quickly), trout lily’s leaves have the mottled appearance of its …

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