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This article lists plants commonly found in the wild, which are edible to humans and thus forageable. 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.
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Rock tripe is the common name for various lichens of the genus Umbilicaria that grow on rocks. [1] They are widely distributed, including on bare rock in Antarctica, and throughout northern parts of North America such as New England and the Rocky Mountains.
Ipomoea pandurata, known as man of the earth, [1] wild potato vine, manroot, wild sweet potato, and wild rhubarb, [2] is a species of herbaceous perennial vine native to North America. It is a twining plant of woodland verges and rough places with heart-shaped leaves and funnel-shaped white flowers with a pinkish throat.
Naturalist Lee Allen Peterson is the author of A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America, a leading reference in survivalist foraging [1] and cooking with wild plants. [2] [3] The book is illustrated with photographs by Peterson, as well as line drawings by both him and his father, Roger Tory Peterson. [4] [5]
The young flowers are also edible (being made into jelly in the Yukon) [15] and the stems of older plants can be split to extract the edible raw pith. [16] The root can be roasted after scraping off the outside, but often tastes bitter. To mitigate this, the root is collected before the plant flowers and the brown thread in the middle removed. [17]
A Wild Way to Eat (1967) for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School; Stalking the Faraway Places (1973) (collected in) American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes, ed. Molly O'Neill (Library of America, 2007) ISBN 1-59853-005-4; Feast on a Diabetic Diet (1973) Euell Gibbons' Handbook of Edible Wild Plants (1979)
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. It is considered to be endangered in Ohio.