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62 Edible Wild Plants That You Didn't Know You Can Eat
• basisgear.com By ColinI certainly wouldn't panic and neither should you. Luckily for us human beings and animals alike, the Earth provides us with a vast variety of foods that aren't only found in restaurants or grocery stores.
This variety of foods include; wild berries, edible plants and even seeds! Sounds questionable? No need to worry as these wild edible plants, berries and seeds, are totally safe for consumption as long as you are certain of their identity when collecting.
Let's take a look at some of these edible wild plants:
1. Fireweed
Fireweed, or scientifically referred to as Chamerion angustifolium, is an edible plant which is native throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
It is commonly referred to as rosebay willowherbin Britain, and in some parts of Canada as great willowherb.