Do or Don't ?
Bring a plant identification book.
What is do?
It Kills Me. This is the most toxic plant in North America.
DAILY DOUBLE:
This is the amount that can kill an adult human.
What is water hemlock?
DAILY DOUBLE:
What is a marble-sized amount?
This is the nutrient in wild violet.
What is Vitamin A ?
This is the plant part and the plant that helps balance body fluids.
What are dandelion leaves>?
This is said to be the most toxic plant in the whole world.
What is the Rosary Pea?
Make a salad out of paw paw leaves.
What is don't?
Only the fruit is edible.
It Kills Me Not
This plant has a sour, lemony taste.
What is the common yellow woodsorrel?
This is the nutrient in burdock and what it helps.
What is calcium for strong bones?
This is the plant and the plant part that soothes burns.
What is the gel from the leaf of an aloe vera plant?
This is the process in which a plant makes its own food.
DAILY DOUBLE:
Organisms that make their own food are called this.
What is photosynthesis?
DAILY DOUBLE:
What are autotrophs?
Make flour out of the pollen of cattails.
What is do?
Most of the plant is edible.
This is the difference between the edible eastern black nightshade flower and the toxic deadly nightshade flower.
What is
eastern black nightshade - small, star-shaped white flower
deadly nightshade - tubular, bell-shaped purple flower
This is the nutrient found in purslane and what it helps.
What is magnesium for energy production?
This is the plant and the plant part that aids in digestion.
What are flax seeds?
These are the five parts of a plant.
What are the roots, stem, fruit, leaf, and flower?
Eat the cluster of dull nightshade berries.
What is do?
The berry cluster grows on the eastern black nightshade, which is edible.
This is the toxic chemical in acorns. And this is how to process acorns to make them safe to eat.
What are tannins, and what is grinding them into flour, then rinsing the flour with water?
This is the nutrient in stinging nettle and what it helps.
What is protein for building muscle?
This is the plant and the plant part that fights inflammation.
What are purslane leaves and stems?
These are two plants.
The first is a plant that animals can eat, but humans can't.
The second is a plant that humans can eat, but horses and cows can't.
What are 1) pokeweed and 2) curly dock?
These are three things that you should not do when you go foraging.
What are
1) touch or put anything in your mouth without making sure it's safe
2) forage where chemicals have been sprayed to kill bugs or weeds
3) do harm to the plants, animals, or the environment.
These are two differences between the wild carrot (or Queen Anne's lace) and poison hemlock.
What are
-wild carrot: compact flower clusters, small purple or red flower in center, hairy stem
-poison hemlock: scattered flower clusters, no colored center flower, smooth stem with purple blotches
These are the essential vitamins that can be found in some foraged plants.
What are Vitamins A, C, and K?
This is the plant, plant parts, and preparation that fight cold and flu symptoms.
What are elderberry berries cooked into a syrup or extract?
These are the edible and toxic parts of the wild black cherry plant.
What are
edible: fruit
toxic: twigs, bark, leaves, and seeds