toothwort


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Related to toothwort: Cardamine diphylla
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toothwort

toothwort

Has 4 petaled white flowers. Helps with toothache. The root tastes peppery kind of like horseradish and can be chewed for colds and flu or made into tea to gargle with for sore throat. Used to spice up food. The entire plant can be used- leaves, stems, flowers, root. Add to your salads, rice etc. Even when the leaves are gone, the roots are still underground and edible.
Edible Plant Guide © 2012 Markus Rothkranz
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Cardamine concatenata (Michx.) Sw.: cutleaf toothwort. Abundant in woods; 14; C = 4.
Cardamine concatenata (Michx.) Sw.; SYN: Dentaria laeiniata Muhl.; Cutleaf or Five-parted Toothwort; Woods; Common; C = 4; BSUH 13902.
Cardamine concatenata (Michx.) Sw.; SYN: Dentaria laciniata Muhl.; Cutleaf or Five-parted Toothwort; Woods; Abundant; C = 4; BSUH 13259.
Cardamine concatenata (Michx.) Sw.; Cutleaf or Five-parted Toothwort; Woods; Abundant; C = 4; BSUH 11817.
The first to bloom are Cloytonia virginica (spring beauty), Dentaria laciniata (cut-leaved toothwort), and Thalictrum thalictroides.
Schwarz: Five-parted or Cut-leaf Toothwort; abundant; mesic woods; BSUH 10908.