Edible and Medicinal Plant Series- Goldenrod

Description:The Canadensis variety (Canadian Goldenrod) can reach heights from 1-5 feet with yellow flower clusters 3-5 inches across.

Edible Uses:  Leaves, Flowers and Seeds can be eaten

Spring:Leaves

Summer:Leaves and Flowers

Late Summer: Seeds

This video describes the top uses for the common plant Goldenrod.  The Native Americans, who’d been drinking it for years medicinally, must’ve thought the colonists rather daft to just be drinking it for pleasure.