October 16, 2025

Today’s plant for #WildEdibleWednesday is Viola sororia, or the Common Blue Violet. Beautiful yet often overlooked, violet is a useful and widespread edible and medicinal plant. I probably sound like a broken record by now, but this plant is yet another example of a common lawn “weed” that’s far more useful than bland, generic grass.

This week’s plant for #WildEdibleWednesday is the diverse and confusing Erigeron genus. Although there are many distinct species of plants in this genus, hailing from different continents, and consisting of annuals, biennials, and perennials, they all look very similar, have similar edible and medicinal uses, and all go by the same common name – Fleabane. We mentioned