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Mayapple is a pretty plant native to woodlands and fields throughout the eastern United States and Canada . Each plant produces a single yellowed yield ( technically a Chuck Berry ) which is edible and delicious . The good yield is eaten raw , or used in gelatin and succus . Never eat up the immature yield or any other parts of the plant . Mayapple is distinctive and easy to recognise . The base grows about 1 pes high in a Y - shape ; each ramification is topped by an umbrella - like leaf 6 to 8 inch across . A flower similar to an orchard apple tree blossom blossom beneath the leave , play along by the fruit . The works spread through underground rootstalk so it often blanket an area . Mayapple is one of the first fruit to appear in spring .
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Cattails
Spread throughout North America , cattail are unremarkably recover in roadside ditches and along the coin bank of lake , pool , rivers and wetland . The very young flower spikes , young shoot and rhizomes are crunchy and can be eat raw or cooked like a potato . The yellow-bellied , powdery pollen above the flower spike can be used as flour . Older rhizomes can be pound and dry into flour . Cattails are easily identified by the brown , cylindrical flush spike that is likely skewered atop the stem . cattail have dark green , spear - shaped folio that grow upright from the stem .
Chicory
Chicory is a indigene of Europe that spread across the roadsides of North America missing only the northern reaches of Canada . Chicory root can be dry out and earth to brew a coffee fill-in . The green leave can be used in salad or cooked as green . Chicory is well recognized from July through October by its promising dark , daisy - comparable flowers on marvellous gullible stems with a rosette of unripened leaves at the foundation .
Common Blue Violet
An early herald of spring , the unassuming reddish blue produces small royal flowers with white center , loll from thin stalk surrounded by centre - form leaves . The plant are small , growing from 6 to 10 inch tall . Violet leaves are rich in vitamin A and C. They make a tasty plus to a salad . They can also be cook as greens . The violet efflorescence is also edible and is sometimes used for jelly , to beautify patty or added to salads . There are many specie of wild violets ; only the African violet deal as houseplant are not comestible . Violets are found throughout the easterly United States in woods and meadows . They are a common weed in lawns .
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