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Speedwells – Veronica SPP.: Edible & Medicinal Uses of the Green Tea of Wild Plants

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Speedwells – Veronica SPP.

Marsh speedwell is the main native speedwell (Veronica spp.) you’ll find here, but we have quite a few species creeping around Ontario. All are edible and medicinal wild plants. Around Haliburton, the most common speedwells are marsh speedwell (Veronica scutellata) and thyme-leaved speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia). I most often spot marsh and thyme-leaved in lawns left … [Read more…]

Jewelweed – Impatiens Capensis: Edible & Medicinal Uses of the Snappiest Wild Plant

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Jewelweed - Impatiens Capensis

Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) is a snappy edible and medicinal herb, known for its exploding seedpods.  It’s handy to have around if you like clumsily rooting through wild plants like me, and end up grazing yourself with stinging nettle or worse – poison ivy. Jewelweed is so named because of the way the dew beads on … [Read more…]