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New York Natural Heritage Program Rare Plants List

1/4/2018

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http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/2017rareplantlists.pdf
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The Golden Elixir

3/1/2017

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http://www.shtfblog.com/making-maple-syrup/

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Emergency Foods From Wild Plants

12/14/2016

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I am now contributing to Survival Cache, a blog on survival topics.  Check out the link below on "Emergency Foods from Wild Plants" and keep an eye out for future articles on wild foods and other survival topics like bushcraft skills and survival tools.
​http://survivalcache.com/emergency-foods-from-wild-plants-edible-foraging-cattail-nutrition/
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American Pine Nuts

8/3/2016

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pinenut.com

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Daisy

6/15/2016

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Daisies are flowering.  Learn to recognize the leaves too, so that you can harvest them in early spring as a green - added to salads or as cooked side.
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Virgina Waterleaf

6/7/2016

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Sumac

6/6/2016

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Here is some Sumac growing on the ledges at the Hawk's Nest.  The young, non-flowering, "shoots" can be peeled and eaten raw or as a cooked vegetable. 
Later, when the berries ripen they can be soaked in cool water and sweetened to make Sumac-ade, a refreshing, sour-tasting beverage.
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Fiddleheads

5/12/2016

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FIDDLEHEAD FERN
Ostrich Fern   Matteuccia struthiopteris

The Ostrich Fern, or Fiddlehead Fern, is one of our wild delicacies.  Cree (Algonquian) used a decoction of sterile leaf stalk base for expulsion of afterbirth and for back pain.  Menomini used as a poultice and as an infusion for whitish urine.  Ostrich Fern, therefore, seems to be parturient, analgesic, and diuretic, with an affinity to the reproductive and urinary systems.  Perhaps kidney tonic, as the kidneys rule the back, reproductive system, and urinary system in Chinese medicine.  The coiled shape signifies a kidney medicine.  Natives considered the unfurling of the fronds to signify the medicinal actions of unfurling the congested energy of pain.  Of course, as a springtime green vegetable, much of the medicine is simply in eating it for food to rejuvenate the body and mind.  

Distinctive sterile fronds are large (20 – 50 inches long, 10 inches wide) and oblong, tapering toward base, and arising from clump.  Fertile fronds are light green when young, becoming dark brown, and persisting though winter.  Sterile blades pinnate-pinnatafid. 

They are not as common in our area as in some, being mostly found along rivers and similar locations.  Often people see Cinnamon Fern or others as fiddleheads and assume they are edible.  Every once in a while someone attending a walk will exclaim that they tried fiddleheads and found them bitter, to which I ask if they had the light cinnamon brown fuzz of Cinnamon Fern, which is of similar stature and most likely what they ate.


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Marsh Marigold

5/10/2016

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Many are past, but here is one Marsh Marigold from yesterday.  The greens are edible when cooked properly, though the family, Ranunclulaceae  - the Buttercup Family, is rather toxic in general (it will be given some attention in the Materia Medica blog and is listed on the toxic plants page).

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Blueberry Blooms

5/4/2016

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Sometimes folks aren't familiar with the flowers.  But this might be an easier time to find the bushes than when in fruit.  
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