Found in open dry hillsides

Salsifies – Tragopogon SPP.: Edible & Medicinal Uses of the Oyster of Wild Plants

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Salsifies - Tragopogon SPP.

Salsifies (Tragopogon spp.) are edible and medicinal plants that look like taller, fluffier versions of dandelion. Their giant seed balls resemble dandelions too. They’re a non-native plant in Ontario and part of the sunflower family. In the reference book Haliburton Flora you’ll only find goatsbeard (Tragopogon dubius), better called yellow salsify (there are unrelated plants … [Read more…]

Common Blackberry – Rubus Allegheniensis: Edible & Medicinal Uses of the Cordial Bramble of Wild Plants

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Common Blackberry - Rubus Allegheniensis

Common blackberry syn. Allegheny blackberry (Rubus allegheniensis) is a cordial wild edible and medicinal bramble. It’s distinguishable from black raspberries by having a core instead of being hollow inside when harvested (second picture down this page). There are around 50 species of black and raspberries in North America and up here in the north, aren’t we … [Read more…]