05/04/2026
!!! While I was gardening this evening, I did a lil impromptu harvest of my blossoming Florida Betony, aka Stachys floridana, or, Rattle Snake W**d. While the leaves can be cooked or dried up for tea, from my research, the TASTIEST part of this plant are the tubers, which look like...white beaded grubs, lol.
Without disturbing the flowers too much, I gently worked by way to hand-digging to the roots until I found and gently plucked each of these half-inch to 3 inch tubers. They can be eaten raw or pickled!
How does it taste?? Crunchy, yet delicate and pleasant. It has a very mild, yet subtly sweet flavor, like a sweet radish (without the heat). I like it a lot!!
Hey...you might have these growing around you...and if you do, I recommend harvesting the tubers springtime (now) before summer, while the tubers are still bright and firm.
To eating the weeds!! 🌱🌿
