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Nature’s Grocery Store
All of these wild foods can be found in relative abundance in the Kickapoo bioregion (southwestern Wisconsin::
Early Spring Late Spring Maple sap & syrup Bracken Fern (fiddleheads) Watercress Wild Asparagus Burdock Root Lambsquarter Nettles Dandelion (flowers & buds) Wild Leeks Wild Onions Chickweed Morels, Shaggy Manes, Oyster Dandelion (roots and leaves) Milkweed (tender shoots) Yellow Dock Cattail (tender shoots) Wintercress (leaves) Wintercress (flower buds) Violets (leaves) Violets (leaves & flowers) Spring Beauty (bulbs) Plantain (tender leaves)
Summer Fall Wild Amaranth Hickory Nuts Cattail (pollen and flowering head) Wild Apples Day Lily Black Walnuts Milkweed (flower buds & tender seedpods) Wild Plums Mayapples Sumac Berries Wild Strawberry Chicken-of-the-Woods Thistle Oyster Mushrooms Purslane Puffballs Sorrel Wild Grapes Elderberry (flower & berries) Acorns Blackberries Black Cherries Black & Red Raspberries Arrowhead root Chokecherries American Lotus Root Mulberries Cattail Roots Chicory Root (roasted)
Many of the seasons overlap quite a bit, and some of the plants are available throughout (for example: Dandelion leaves and Chickweed greens). There are numerous other plants that can be made into interesting teas, as well as many more edible greens that can be used as pot herbs or added to salads. All of the above plants are fairly easy to identify and grow in relative abundance. None are protected or endangered.
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