Amsinckia lycopsoides
Lindl. ex Lehm.
Yellow Burrweed, Tarweed fiddleneck, Bugloss fiddle-neck
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves, Seeds
The fresh young shoots are juicy and edible, though no further preparation details are recorded. The seed can be eaten raw or ground into a powder after parching, then formed into cakes and eaten without further cooking. As with most members of the Boraginaceae family, seeds likely ripen gradually and fall individually when mature, which would make harvesting any significant quantity very fiddly and time-consuming.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant.
Asia, Australia, Britain, Europe, Korea, North America, USA,
How to Identify
An annual plant. It is erect. It grows 50 cm high. They have both long and short hairs mixed. The leaves do not have stalks and are narrowly sword shaped. The flowers are yellow and without bracts. The flowers have a restricted corolla throat which is enclosed in a hairy pouch.
How to Grow
Succeeds in ordinary garden soil in full sun.
Propagation: Sow seed in situ in late spring.
Medicinal Uses
None known
Other Uses
None known
Wikipedia
Source ↗Amsinckia lycopsoides is a species of flowering plant, known by the common name tarweed fiddleneck or bugloss fiddleneck, in the family Boraginaceae. It is one of the more common species of fiddleneck. It is native to much of western North America from California to British Columbia. It can be found in a wide variety of areas.
Names & Synonyms
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