Native Prairie Vegetables
This class focuses on some of our best native vegetables of the shortgrass prairie, including yucca (Yucca glauca), showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa), prickly pear (Opuntia spp.), and prairie turnip aka tinspila (Pediomelum esculentum), along with an introduction to other edible natives like Fendler’s waterleaf (Hydrophyllum fendleri), wavyleaf dandelion (Nothocalais cuspidata), paintbrush (Castilleja spp.), and copper mallow (Sphaeralcea spp.). Many of these plants (or their close edible relatives) are also found in regions like the desert Southwest and Eastern Woodlands, so we’ll explore their uses across these landscapes for participants outside the shortgrass prairie too.
Join us for the live Zoom class on Sunday, June 8 at 6 PM Mountain, or you can watch the replay later.
