Yellow Pond Lily or Spatterdock
By Healerwitch
- 28 Oct, 2009
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This lily too was a source of food and medicine for the Native Americans. These flowers are reported to have a brandy like scent. Native Americans consumed the starchy rootstocks as boiled or roasted vegetables and harvested the seed for grinding into flour
The roots are anaphrodisiac, anodyne, antiscrofulatic, astringent, cardiotonic, demulcent and sedative. Caution should be exercised because large doses are potentially toxic.
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These grow in the wild as far North as the 45th parallel...not as beautiful as some water plants but very useful.
6 Nov, 2009
This yellow water lily looks like the one that grows in the river here. It flowers at the end of June & carries on through July.
8 Nov, 2009
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Wonderful ! Amazing to think that a little flower can have so many uses :-)
28 Oct, 2009