Purple Avens (Geum triflorum)

Family: Rosaceae | Edibility: Edible (2/5)

Bloom Color: Yellow. Main Bloom Time: Early summer. Form: Spreading or horizontal, Variable spread.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Leaves

Harvest Seasons: Fall, Spring, Winter

Flavor & Culinary Uses

tastes like a weak sassafras tea. — A decoction of the roots is a tea substitute.; It tastes like a weak sassafras tea.; A brew was used in Indian sweat houses as a body wash for aches and pains.

Habitat & North American Range

Damp places and mountain screes. (Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3, Zone 4, Zone 5)