"It would be good to see the poisonous lookalikes next to the edible ones, with tips on how to spot the difference. Edible plant books kill people each year because the readers mistakenly eat poisonous plants."

"Nice page - want more! :)

More on cattails: there's something useful all year round. The pollen is edible, young shoots make a good salad, as noted, the tuber is edible, raw or cooked tastes like potato with texture like onion. But, you can harvest starch by shredding the tuber and drying it - use it as a thickener in stew or whatever. Finally, the fluff makes great tinder(I know its not food, but, it sure helps cook it!) Don't overharvest! You'll want at lot of these around! Did I mention the shafts were used for arrows? Damn handy plant. "