Roots
Nodding Onion Thumbnail Button Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum)—The nodding onion may be identified by its onion odour, grass-like leaves and small pink flowers that are clustered in an umbrella-like head. It is a popular food that is harvested from May to July, but is better if it is picked before flowering. Nodding onion can be eaten raw and bundled then steam-cooked in underground pits. After it is cooked in the pits with other foods, it becomes sweet in taste.
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Spring Beauty Thumbnail Button Spring Beauty (Claytonia lanceolata)—Spring beauty has small potato-like corms. This small, delicate, herb has white flowers that appear after the snow melts. These potatoes are dug during May and June. They can be eaten raw.

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