Wild Flowers versus Weeds #2: Different One!

That one looks as if it would have a valueable root for the nutrient-rich blood clensing coffee substitute. People dread dandelions here so I am seeking the pretty white variety taraxacum Albidum want to see peoples faces when the ooooo and ahhhh over my lush green edible plant with beautiful white flowers and I tell them…”It’s a dandelion” :)

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

hhaa that’s sneaky Xo :)

I love dandelions!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Ugh… My mother used to fry the greens with vinegar or something.. The most noxious thing I’d ever smelled..

Needless to say, I wouldn’t eat it.

Never seen a white dandy before. Hmm.. Oh well.. They’re all over my yard, I don’t mind them so much.. Make good rabbit food. ;)

-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b

Hey X,
if ever you find it, I would be interested: it is a beautiful flower!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

They say a weed is just a flower out of place

When it finds the proper home, it then is a beautiful flower

cheers carolyn

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

You can have all your dandies, but I get enough “freebies” from neighbors who don’t know how to care for their lawn!

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

Me too Damocles

They are one flower. weed I hate to see coming up

In Gremany they buy them by the ton from Canada

They love them to etc, make wines etc

For some reason they will not grow there but from what I have read they came from Europe (England) I think many years ago for the same reasons, eating mostly the greens

The new tender greens are extermely healthy for you. Full of vitamin C but I perfer to get my vitamin C elsewhere, lol,lol

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

Here’s one of my favorite weeds.
They occur all over B.C. in the lower elevations.

Bob

-- I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Alberta Canada Zone 3A or maybe 3B

Chicory is a herb here…It is pretty.

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

Yep, we get chicory weeds all over the place here too…common roadside weed. I like the blue flowers.

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

Here as well, and it is so pretty!Put some in the flowerbed the first summer we were here and it was humongous!!
If I find the picture, I will post it!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

I like the fact they make coffee substitute out of them and they are the only blue flower in my garden. Cool one.

-- wjl - 5a Indiana

The only one, NPR? You should try some mountain blue-its! Great blue color!

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit