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Primarily edible Nettle: Urtica dioica: Broccoli, tomato, [2] valerian, mint, fennel: Despite its "sting", young plant parts are edible, as is much of the plant when blanched or otherwise prepared. It can be used to make herbal tea: Also once grown as a crop for its fiber. Its juice was once used in the place of rennet in cheese-making.
Nuts, tiny and difficult to extract from the cones, but edible raw [17] Mesquite Prosopis juliflora: Native to Southern America, widely found in arid and hot climates worldwide as an invasive weed Seed pods, edible raw or boiled, dried and milled to make flour, or fermented to make a mildly alcoholic beverage [18] Wild cherry: Prunus avium
The base of the leaf stalks (petioles) is greatly expanded. Smyrnium olusatrum, common name alexanders (or alisander) is an edible flowering plant of the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae), which grows on waste ground and in hedges around the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal regions of Europe.
Some are nuisance weeds (and are sometimes called dockweed or dock weed), but some are grown for their edible leaves. [2] Rumex species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species, and are the only host plants of Lycaena dispar and Lycaena rubidus .
In Dr. James Duke's Handbook of Edible Weeds, he notes that the Native American Kiowa people chewed wood sorrel to alleviate thirst on long trips, the Potawatomi cooked it with sugar to make a dessert, the Algonquin considered it an aphrodisiac, the Cherokee ate wood sorrel to alleviate mouth sores and a sore throat, and the Iroquois ate wood ...
Cannabis also has a long history of being used for medicinal purposes, and as a recreational drug known by several slang terms, such as marijuana, pot or weed. Various cannabis strains have been bred, often selectively to produce high or low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a cannabinoid and the plant's principal psychoactive constituent.
[2] [3] [4] It is considered to be one of the ten worst weeds in the world. [5] In the United States, Johnson grass is listed as either a noxious or quarantined weed in 19 states. [ 6 ] With Sorghum bicolor it is a parent of Sorghum × almum , a forage crop also considered a weed in places.
This species is a perennial herb producing a hairy, erect stem up to about half a meter in maximum height. It grows from a network of rhizomes with tubers.The distinctive pale-colored tuber is several centimeters long and about one centimeter wide, and is segmented in such a way that it resembles the rattle on the tail of a rattlesnake, [6] the inspiration for the common name "rattlesnake weed ...