Thanks to Tricia, I have successfully identified the purple five lobed
flowers growing in our front yard as Campanula
rapunculoides, also known as creeping bellflower. According to both my
edible wild plant book, and the plants for a future database, its leaves,
young shoots and roots are edible, and the flavour of these is ‘very
palatable’. Always a plus.
posted at 23:12 on Wed, 20 Jul, 2005 |
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