| Asclepias syriaca L. Common Milkweed USDA ASSY |
Omaha Food, Vegetable Young shoots used for food like asparagus. Gilmore, Melvin R., 1913, A Study in the Ethnobotany of the Omaha Indians, Nebraska State Historical Society Collections 17:314-57., page 325 |
| Asparagus officinalis L. Garden Asparagus USDA ASOF |
Cherokee Drug, Dietary Aid Infusion of plant taken for rickets. Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 24 |
| Asparagus officinalis L. Garden Asparagus USDA ASOF |
Cherokee Food, Vegetable Species used for food. Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 24 |
| Asparagus officinalis L. Garden Asparagus USDA ASOF |
Iroquois Drug, Antirheumatic (External) Compound decoction with roots used as a foot soak for rheumatism. Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 282 |
| Asparagus officinalis L. Garden Asparagus USDA ASOF |
Iroquois Drug, Antirheumatic (External) Stalks cooked as greens and used for rheumatism. Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1910, Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants, Albany, NY. University of the State of New York, page 93 |
| Asparagus officinalis L. Garden Asparagus USDA ASOF |
Iroquois Drug, Blood Medicine Compound decoction with bark taken before meals for the blood. Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 282 |
| Asparagus officinalis L. Garden Asparagus USDA ASOF |
Iroquois Food, Vegetable Stalks eaten as greens in spring. Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1910, Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants, Albany, NY. University of the State of New York, page 93 |
| Asparagus officinalis L. Garden Asparagus USDA ASOF |
Isleta Food, Unspecified Uncultivated but used as food when found in the wild. Castetter, Edward F., 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(1):1-44, page 17 |
| Asparagus officinalis L. Garden Asparagus USDA ASOF |
Isleta Food, Vegetable Boiled, seasoned spears used for food. Jones, Volney H., 1931, The Ethnobotany of the Isleta Indians, University of New Mexico, M.A. Thesis, page 23 |
| Cirsium undulatum (Nutt.) Spreng. Wavyleaf Thistle USDA CIUNU |
Montana Indian Food, Vegetable Young, summer stalks eaten like asparagus and greens. Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 10 |
| Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P. Fuchs Spinulose Woodfern USDA DRCA11 |
Alaska Native Food, Vegetable Young, curled fronds boiled or steamed & eaten like asparagus with butter, margarine or cream sauce. Heller, Christine A., 1953, Edible and Poisonous Plants of Alaska, University of Alaska, page 29 |
| Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum Feather Solomon's Seal USDA MARAR |
Thompson Food, Vegetable Young shoots cooked and eaten like asparagus. Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 127 |
| Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn Western Brackenfern |
Alaska Native Food, Substitution Food Young fiddlenecks peeled, boiled or steamed and eaten as a substitute for asparagus. Heller, Christine A., 1953, Edible and Poisonous Plants of Alaska, University of Alaska, page 51 |
| Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn Western Brackenfern |
Mahuna Food, Unspecified Young shoots cut, cooked and eaten like asparagus. Romero, John Bruno, 1954, The Botanical Lore of the California Indians, New York. Vantage Press, Inc., page 58 |
| Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn Western Brackenfern |
Ojibwa Food, Unspecified Young fern tips, with coiled fronds, were like asparagus tips, only not stringy like asparagus. Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 408 |