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Prunella vulgaris
A humble little mint with a long blooming period and a long history of widespread use
You MAY have this little plant growing in your lawn or in a field closeby.  Click the links or watch the videos to learn about its long history of edible and medicinal uses.
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Under two feet tall, and often under six inches, this useful little herb would be easy to overlook if not for its spikey purple flowerheads.
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Clumps of this small mint can look almost unreal, like clusters of tiny geometric towers sprayed with dusty purple paint

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This dark-colored cup fungus grows in small clumps on hardwood, starting out nearly closed and tender enough to be eaten, and maturing into a ...

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These flying insects emerge from the water like mayflies and others that are natural fish bait, inspiring their own set of artificial flies for ...

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These nearly ubiquitous, often evergreen vines are almost entirely edible outside of their berries. Try their tender tendrils. :wink:

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This low-growing plant looks, smells, and tastes like onion and is served in US cuisine

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This yellow-flowered, silvery-leaved plant grows low to the ground and has runners that shoot out all over to establish new plants, just like its ...

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This tree has large, opposite, palmately compound leaves and pyramids of flowers around May. It is often planted in parks and along city ...

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This velvety rootbeer-colored, moist-looking, rubbery-textured, somewhat cup-shaped edible fungus grows on trees and downed logs

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