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Seaweed has been an important plant for many First Nations peoples of British Columbia. Along the coast, families still travel out to seaweed beds that have provided food for thousands of years. [1] Dried red laver (Porphyra abbottiae Krishnamurthy) is a type of edible seaweed. Laver is usually gathered in great amounts in Spring.
Strawberry blite (Blitum capitatum, [1] syn. Chenopodium capitatum) is an edible annual plant, also known as blite goosefoot, strawberry goosefoot, strawberry spinach, Indian paint, and Indian ink. It is native to most of North America throughout the United States and Canada , including northern areas.
Some are only edible in part, while the entirety of others are edible. Some plants (or select parts) require cooking to make them safe for consumption. Field guides instruct foragers to carefully identify species before assuming that any wild plant is edible.
French botanist André Michaux is the first recorded authority to provide a scientific name for the plant, calling it Viburnum opulus var. Pimina or Viburnum trilobum var. edule in 1803. [7] The name edule is derived from the latin word ĕdūlis, meaning edible. [14] The name Pimina refers to the common name for the plant used in Canada at the ...
Astragalus crassicarpus, known as ground plum or buffalo plum, is a perennial species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, native to North America. [3] It was described in 1813. [4] The fruit is edible and was used by Native Americans as food and horse medicine. It is a host of afranius duskywing larvae.
The plant is a deciduous shrub of open woodlands and thickets, growing to a maximum of 1–4 metres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 –13 feet). The fruit is usually red, but one variety has yellow berries . The berries have a bitter taste.
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Maianthemum canadense (Canadian may-lily, Canada mayflower, false lily-of-the-valley, Canadian lily-of-the-valley, wild lily-of-the-valley, [3] two-leaved Solomon's seal) [4] is an understory perennial flowering plant, native to Canada and the northeastern United States, from Yukon and British Columbia east to Newfoundland, into St. Pierre and Miquelon. [4]