anyone know anything about naturally occuring common edible plants?

i know like dandelions and stuff... also medicinal plants/?

 

I have a really awesome book called "The herb bible" has a ton of info in there. its got how to use different plants to dye clothes and use them for medical problems.

Thats a pretty awesome signature pic. btw-

 

well, we have a ton of kudzu growing all across the southeast US...never eaten it myself, but I've heard it's not bad..

 

dude there's like tons of 'em, if your talkin' eatin' raw, grass for one! just don't swallow it! chew the juice out of it and spit out the fiber. cows have a seven chamber stomach and chew their cud for a reason...lol! plaintain,pursalne,clover flowers (leaves too, just spit out the fiber like the grass), lambs quarters,violets (leaves and flowers ,i read a cup of leaves has more vitamin C than a bag of oranges), sorrels,cattails(yank it out as deep as you can peel a few leaves off and bite it off from the bottom till you hit the tough stuff,tastes like cucumber),grape leaves and tendels,rasberry, blackberry leaves (growing tips the best),acorns (white ,and post usually not too bitter), maple leaves and seeds,(again growing tips best,seeds taste like raw peanuts!).

all of these are quite palletable without cooking,and VERY good for you,if i was out side i'm sure i could think of even more!

if your talking cooking there's a ton more! lots of good books on the subject,get a few, and start checkin' 'em out!

 

hehe you got most of the basics, if you went more they might posion themselves! i love lambsquarters better than spinich!!! a note of warning there are lots of things that LOOK likeouther things and they CAN kill!!! some folks were i grew up big brother thought he found wild carrots,(queen annes lace) well he convinced his younger brother that it was ok! anyone want to geuss what it turnd out to be? the older is not with us any more! be very sure of what you eat! if your not dont eat it!!!!!!! in a survival situation eat very little if it tastes realy bad leave it be if its not so bad and it doesent make you sick in a few hrs try alittle more!!! use your BRAIN!!

 

flmkpr is right, i have should have stessed the GET SOME BOOKS! i assume the kid ate poisin hemlock which is looks simular to wild carrots! but don't let this discourage you, like flmkpr said,if your NOT ABSOLUTLY SURE DON'T EAT IT!
and get several books not just one or even two! or you could drop by me or flmkpr place and we'd be happy to show you! (i never met a suvivalist who didn't like to show off what they know! LOL!)

 

yup! hemlock!! very easy to tell the difference once your SHOWN! so that what you learn in the book is confirmed!! ahh, bad gig in my town, just be careful, please!!!!

 

yeah cook dandilions they taste exacly mushrooms

 

Remember some plants are very easy to identify, but others have plants that imatate them, and may be poisonous, so unless you're 100% sure of a plant, don't mess with it or you'll get either sick, or may die.
Perhaps you should read some books, and study up on the parts of a plant to help you identify them better.
I've been doing so for years, and I learned the poisonous plants better than the edible ones to help avoid any mishaps.
I recommend two books I like very much;

Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild and Not so Wild Places by Steve Brill and Evelyn Dean, this even has recipies in the back of book...yummy.

Tom Brown's Field Guide Wilderness Survival, this has 100 edibal plants, places to find, and usage of each.

Peace to you and be safe.

 

I greive for your loss... I suspect the plant was a Water Hemlock, it imatates the Wild Carrot(queen anne's lace or bird's nest), but has several differences to the trained eye. It also happens to be the deadliest plant in north america.
So yes, you your brain, but avoid a taste test, that too can be fatal. Four plants to remember in survival, Pine trees, oak tree's, cattails, and grass(not the smoking kind).
Pine needles make excellent tea thats like 200% vitamin c, acorns, preferably white oak, make flour for indian style breads roasted on hot rocks, cattails are natures kitchen, lots of uses, yellow tops add to flour, green heads cooked and eaten like corn on the cob, white root stock used for anastethic, and the roots roast and crushed make good coffee, and though grass is not digestable, chewing and swallowing the juices and spitting out fiber will give you vitamins.
Well read the books to find out more...
Peace

 

Another thing to consider is the land and water you're picking the plants from, is it clean? If there's any doubt, then look elsewhere, or you'll just make yourself sick or worse.
Safety first