Top 20 Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Southeastern U.S.
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- Have you ever wondered which edible and medicinal plants are common in the Southeastern states? In this video Matthew covers the edible uses and medicinal benefits of 20 common plants that you can forage right in your own back yard or neighborhood! Here are the plants covered in the video:
Sassafras, mullein, yaupon holly, wax myrtle, sweet gum, boneset, wild lettuce, elderflower, passionflower, winged sumac, sweet bay magnolia, plantain, wild violet, dandelion, bull or spurge nettle, horsemint, American beautyberry, crossvine, goldenrod, and greenbriar.
If you want to learn more about some of the medicinal plants covered in this video, make sure to grab a copy of our free guide to medicinal plants here: www.legacywildernessacademy.c...
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Thanks for watching!
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:30 Sassafras
3:42 Mullein
5:12 Yaupon Holly
8:52 Wax Myrtle
10:21 Sweet Gum
11:52 Boneset
14:06 Wild Lettuce
17:23 Elderberry
22:03 Passionflower (Maypop)
23:46 Winged Sumac
26:39 Sweet Bay Magnolia
30:25 Plantain
32:57 Wild Violet
34:31 Dandelion
37:10 Spurge Nettle
39:09 Horsemint
40:18 Beautyberry
42:11 Crossvine
44:15 Goldenrod
46:19 Greenbriar
48:29 Free Medicinal Plants Guide
When I was a little girl, my granny (West Virginia mountains all her life...herbal healer) told me that in most cases, the plants and herbs that can irritate you (poison ivy, stinging nettle etc), the "curing" plant or herb grows nearby and sometimes with the plants that cause the irritation. Example, I have stinging nettle in my pasture. Plaintain (which alleviates the burning itch) grows all around it. I wish my granny had lived long enough to teach me more. She was amazing.
Jewel weed grows beside nettles the gelatinous sap is just like aloe.
Jewel weed cures poison ivy. Like your grandmother, my grandfather taught me that.
God bless you.
Me, too. My Granny was wise, too.
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@@yrrekrepmuj1486 do you have a page or something where you teach the knowledge? Attempting to learn on my own at age 63.
How blessed to have had that time with her ❤❤💕👽
Herbalist from North Mississippi here,good job, keep up the good work. Constantly trying to teach the young all this knowledge before old timers like me are all gone.
Thank you sir! I'm in West Monroe, LA and trying to learn from experienced herbalists to keep the knowledge alive. Please let me know if you ever have classes. I'd be willing to make the drive to attend.
South Mississippi here, Trying to learn the SAME!
Thank you! ❤
Great info. Would like to know what to do with wild violet and what it's good for. Thanks
It’s an acquired taste. Not all are interested, but I agree that putting this info out will bring in those that are! I had to grow up a bit before I became interested 🤍
I'm a practicing cancer researcher, (PhD biochem and mol bio, PI on several R01s, significant publication record) and wholly agree with the statements disregarding the cancer risk for sassafras. Everything causes cancer, when you concentrate it and feed huge amounts to model organisms. I'm more concerned about getting cancer from fast food habits than any freshly foraged foodstuffs.
Thank you for commenting!
Thank you for being outside the box in your thinking. We need more people like you in academia.
You should look in to SV40 and Murine contamination. Corvelva Lab in Italy is doing amazing work against the grain too!
Oh my gosh I finally found a person highlighting the south herbal. So many are in the northeast US. Thank you!!
Yes! and I'm focusing specifically on the Coastal Plain, the DEEP south lol. Thanks for watching!
Big upz all the southeastern herbalists ive been realizing how many of us there are and that the traditional knowledge of these plants are in great hands 🙌🏼💚
Could you please write down 20 edible plants on the screen . Thank you for the interesting information
@@LegacyWildernessAcademy
Any suggestions for printed guides for the lower Appalachians?
GA/TN/NC/AL/SC
Thank you for anything you come up with!
I'm trying to find north east videos
Awww, Sassafrass was the first plant I learned to identify when I was a very young girl.
I've had sassafras tea once I couldn't stay out of the bathroom for a few days
Aw same girl,, and my grandpa got me hooked on sassafras. I think it's why I still love it so much because it reminds me if him. And there's alot on my property. I made some shagbark Hickory Syrup recently, made some plain, infused with cinnamon, some vanilla, and some with sassafras,,the sassafras was a hit with some of my family members, And we were thinking it would make a great pork marinade.
Same with me a neighbor girl told me about sassafras when I was 10 years old . I use to make tea over an open fire I loved it
In the boyscouts their manual had a small herbs section
Same
🎉 Thank you for this. My life path often is beset by times of homelessness due to poor relationship decisions and horrible financial decisions but I'm a world class camper and hiker 😂 and I can honestly say I will use this information. Thank you again 🎉😊
God Bless you abundantly. ❤
Do you watch that itinerant sheep farmer channel? I always get some tips and inspo from that
I'm in The Florida Native Plant Society and give foraging walks. You taught me a surprising amount of info!
Wow, that's great to hear! Thanks for commenting!
Thank you for this very good, informative, detailed, and practical video! And especially thank you for NOT using any kind of background music.
I am now subscribed:)
Thank you!
Thank you for all the wonderful information!!
Palmate and pinnate leaf vein/rib patterns have helped me identify plants. I learned in high school biology that "palmate" describes the way your fingers spread outward when looking at your open hand, with your wrist representing the base of the leaf. The "pinnate" leaf is patterned like a feather with a central vein down the length of the leaf and multiple lateral veins off that midline vein. That image has stuck in my head for 50 years. Great teachers are never forgotten.
Thanks that will help me remember it into my senior years
Yours is the first video thats ive seen that shows all these plants together. Thank you for all your hard work.
Thanks for watching!
So,so awesome ❤
Bro salute to you for this!!!🫡southeastern folk herbalists, were out here!!! 💚🌿🪶
Yes we are 😊!!!
I am so grateful to God for this info! Bless these producers!
Honestly bro this is one of the better videos to cover a wide range of good herbs with good info. I have now added crossvine to my arsenal of herbs i collect
Thanks for watching! Future videos will go into a lot more detail for each one 🙂
The Sassafras dry or dead leaves look like poison oak.
YESSSSS i had to go to a whole plant conference to learn abt tht one
Sassafras is a cancer causing compound
Yes, I Agree!
We always said that sassafras had root beer roots and seven - up leaves and stems….yummmm …we always thought God had fun making this for people as a treat…🥰
I like that! Thanks for watching!
My slippery elm and Sassafras leaf tea really hit the spot this morning. Adding the elm can make it taste more creamy when you run out of milk also
So glad TH-cam suggested this video. I moved to NE Alabama 2 years ago. I know almost none of these plants.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I had no idea about the sweet gum. There are several large trees at my grandmothers house. Those spiky balls were the bane of my childhood summers.
He lists this in the description, but here it is again, for those who didn't see it.
0:00 Intro
0:30 Sassafras
3:42 Mullein
5:12 Yaupon Holly (ilex vomitiria)
8:52 Wax Myrtle
10:21 Sweet Gum
11:52 Boneset
14:06 Wild Lettuce
17:23 Elderberry
22:03 Passionflower (Maypop)
23:46 Winged Sumac
26:39 Sweet Bay Magnolia
30:25 Plantain
32:57 Wild Violet
34:31 Dandelion
37:10 Spurge Nettle
39:09 Horsemint
40:18 Beautyberry
42:11 Crossvine
44:15 Goldenrod
46:19 Greenbriar
47:30 Free plant list
Thank you
THANK YOU
❤ thanks for this very informative video! Was not aware that the Sweet Gum had any redeeming qualities 😂
Oh wow what great news! First I hated pihe trees, but now we make pine needle tea, now his we hated those prickly balls,I calked it thrb"banana peel tree" because they'll knock you off your feet. But now I can use it for something useful! Thank you. ❤
As for sweet gum, my grandparents showed me how to get “chewing gum” from them.
Simply scar the tree, wait for the sap to dry, and it becomes “chewing gum”, sorta.
Thanks for the info!
And now we know it really is as good for you as it tastes like it should be
This was so informative! The best foraging video I've seen thus far. ❤
Wow, thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
Agree - hands down! Subscribed.
Cant wait for more videos like this! Im studying foragables but have a hard time finding south east specific videos.
I just started, but live in the southwest. Excellent, detailed information and presentation.
I'm so happy to have found your channel.😊
Glad you're enjoying the info, thanks!
Really cool that you explained about Ilex vomitoria. I remember leaning about it in a woody shrub ID class; however the instructor didn't explain in detail that it was used ritualisticly and it could also be safely ingested. Awesome.
Yes, and it's great! There are even a couple small local companies that sell it like Yaupon Brothers and Lost Pines Yaupon.
I love the smell of sassafras!!!
Me TOO!! I’m in NC and have plenty!! I don’t know how to make the tea. Do you?
Great video. I love the idea of freezing the elderberry clusters to remove the berries. That has always been a labor intensive process for me. Thanks!
Me, too!! I love making elderberry pie, and elderberry-blackberry pie ❤
I will be trying this! 🤗
A fork works pretty well for removing the berries. Great tasting jelly
Thank you I learned a lot from you. I just wanted to add that dried corn silk also breaks up kidney stones, and good for lowering the
Creighton in the kidneys you make a tea with it.
Creatine
I used to have a guinea pig that LOVED corn silk. Apropos if nothing 😂
Mullein helped save me from my allergy symptoms. Forget Mucinex!
I smoke mullein in a corn cobb pipe any time I feel a cough coming on 😊
Got to try this one... Well, All of them. Do any any of these have a shelf life. I can't always be able to go out ??? ❤
I’ve had yaupon holly now for about 5 years. I bought two about 10 years after planting my camellia sinensis. I would bet I probably have or know all of these plants in your video. 😀
I had a really bad cold last weekend and used one drop of Goldenrod essential oil with one drop of mint oil on a piece of tissue paper wet with a few drops of water and folded it inside a face mask. 😷 It worked so well!! Within minutes, my runny nose had stopped and my sinuses were feeling better!
I definitely want to try this for my runny noses because of allergies. 😊😊
What will u use for you're lips to get better
Thank you from NE Oklahoma
Loved the maypop as kids. Great for battle or a snack.
Lol thanks for watching!
Thanks bin looking for you ; thanks from old New Orleans 😎
Even though I have been gardening for several years, I never really noticed how many different kinds of leaves grow in different ways. I guess I recognize most vegetable and common flower plants by their leaves, but looking at the ones you showed here, it really was amazing. I found that as interesting as the different uses for each plant. 🙂
Passion flower grows all over our fences. As a child I was fascinated by the orange butterflies that lay their eggs on it. I would catch the caterpillars and put them in a jar with some leaves to watch them build cocoons and come out as a beautiful butterfly
Yes the gulf fritillaries! We just learned what those were last summer
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No it doesn’t
Yes, Gulf Fritillaries lay their eggs on sunny parts of Passiflora, while Zebra Longwings (our state butterfly) lay their eggs in the shaded parts of the Passiflora vines. Zebra Longwings with sometimes even form their chrysalis right there on the Passiflora vine.
Great video. Nice to see something produced for us southerners. Most videos for the north or out west in California area. 😊
Wow, that's a really interesting distinction! Thanks for commenting. I love learning about butterflies and their host plants.@@GingersnapLizz
This was a great educational video. I took 7 pages of notes. I've been foraging and growing edible and medicinal plants for about four years and I didn't know half of the information in here. Definitely, I'm going to watch his other videos
Awesome, thanks so much! Keep an eye out for more videos coming soon!
Oh my word. I was watching this video with my kids for homeschool and immediately recognized something familiar about the whole video situation.. then you said your name. We’ve been avid Sheologians listeners since the beginning😂 I never thought I’d be able to recognize you just by quick clues. Thanks for the homeschool lesson!!
No way! I'm going to show Joy this comment. Hope the kiddos enjoyed it!
Many Thxs for this video and all that you do! My grandmother use to collect sassafras in the springtime for use as a spring tonic tea! Great memories of drinking Sassafras tea! as a child! ❤️👍🏼
I am a herbalist and have learned a bunch from you thank you!!
Thanks for watching!!! Be on the lookout for more coming soon. We just spent all day filming a new one. Should be ready to release by the end of the week.
Another great plant from this region is Salvia Divinorum. Its widely used by a lot of people in the area and can fight off cancer cells and help with arthritis. If you find some out in the wild you should definitely try it, its safe to eat raw and tastes like mint!
I love this information and will use this as medicine guide, thank u for sharing this with us
Thank you for watching!
I grew up in new Jersey we had sassafras to !
I have yet to see my elderberry be called a small bush. This past year they grew to well over 12' tall. And this was a freshening year, the year following us cutting them all down the previous fall.
Lots of great information, great video ❤
Sumac ade is great. Tastes like pink lemonade. Been drinking it for years.
Definitely a favorite. In Steve Brill's book he talks about soaking multiple batches in the same water to create a concentrate, then freezing it to use throughout the year. I want to try that this summer.
I also have used a couple of leaves with my berries. It makes it more like a tea.
Same here. And I use the red seeds as a rub on chicken!
I bought a Sassafrass tree. It grows around in the woods I grew up near.
Sassafras is all in my backyard!
Awesome! I'm working on a full length sassafras video now. Hoping to have it done within the next week.
I absolutely love sassafras, I have alot on my place. I made shagbark Hickory Syrup recently, and made some infused with sassafras,,yumm. My family thinks it would also make a great marinade..
I'm so jealous
Good video! Nice close ups of leaves and flowers.
Glad you enjoyed it, keep an eye out for more with spring around the corner!
Thanks so much for this video. I have been wondering what I could eat wild in Florida. Very good, detailed information. Subscribed!
Thank you so much! I hope you find some of these and try them out!
My Grandmother chewed the end of a Sassafras twig and used it for a toothbrush. I love the root tea! As kids we liked to chew the leaves. Oh for the good ole days in the 1950s!
My MOM used sweetgum twigs for the same thing.
@Patsy Segars
Maybe we could learn from them. I've been a faithful brushed and at 73 I have horrible teeth. What's left of them!
Wow, thanks so much for all of this great info! I will now think more favorably of my sweetgum trees!!
Awesome detailed information, just wish I had it in a book format.
Thank you for this! Utube popped you up on my screen just today. I'm new to the east south, new to the country.
Welcome to the region! Thanks for watching!
Ooooh! You're learning from Darryl! Good for you! I've been looking for herbs and most especially trees to grow. In Phoenix I had nothing in the yard that couldn't be used medicinally or be edible. I want that here to.
I love sassafras tea I so many trees to choose from to make my tea
Wow! Great informative vid. This is one the very best.
I agree with another comment about the display of the plants names being helpful.
Thanks so much for watching and for the kind words! I'm going to take that advice and add names in my future videos.
Oh my gosh I just downloaded your handbook and its so important to me - thank you!!! I actually had to order plantain because I could not find it here. I'm hoping to start cutting down some saplings but wanted to make sure I wasn't cutting anything I could use medicinally. The others will become fence posts or arbors. Going to try to plant mullein again this year also. I don't know why, but I've had such a hard time finding info on plants and fungi here. Probably has a lot to do with my dyslexia. Again, thank you so much!
youre good at describing the plant for identification, best ive seen yet
Thank you so much!
I have a beauty berry shrub that the birds planted in my yard. I love it! It’s so beautiful when the purple berries are on the shrub. I’ve heard that people use the berries to make jelly.
We have a wild one in our yard too. My daughter loves the berries
I grew up being told they were poisonous! So ridiculous.
I've made jelly from beauty berries before. It's really good. It's made from cooking down the berries into a juice and straining out like mayhaw and grape jelly. It's really good on toasted sourdough bread.
Wonderful presentation. Thank you soooo much. Being able to see the plants in its habitat makes a difference.
Glad you liked the video! Thank you for the kind comment!
What a sweetheart he is!! Such a community service to do this video. ❤
Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed it
Sassparilla. Yum. Come on down to Big Nose Kate's Tombstone AZ, and have a cold sassparilla.
I drink sassafras all time I also use it with honey and southern comfort to cure sore throat
Do you buy it or did you grow it yourself?
Hi! I’m in southern NC and have lots of sassafras trees on my property. My mom made tea every year when I was a child. I never knew how to harvest it for tea because she didn’t care much for teaching us daughters anything although she was a good cook and could can just about anything. Will you please share how you make the tea? Thank you so much.
Best video I've found! I'm so glad you put this list together with so much info!
Last summer I used plantain leaves on my toddlers bee sting. His hand was very swollen but within just a couple minutes of putting crushed (chewed) plantain leaf on it it was almost completely back to normal!
It's crazy how well it works! I use it for my 4 year old daughter on her mosquito bites and it takes the itch right away
Dandelions in like Montana and Idaho and Washington, all have similar single taproot, but depending on environment can be really short (usually found in groomed yards), tall and lanky (undisturbed shaded areas) or robust large leaves and tall flower stems. The last growing condition is great for kids and outside play, they can make their play salads due to how safe the plant is. Bitter it is too, except the yellow of the flower, that can be sweet.
Just found yarrow here too . Going harvest some..I have golden rod .
Dandilion. Broad back..purselane..burdock.
Cat tails. Itch weed
Itch weed?
Hey bro! Thank you for creating this. Very educational. Love learning about natural remedies, and plants I might want to cultivate.
Thanks for watching!
I dug some elderberry roots and planted near my garden. Now t hey grow 15 ft tall. Very prolific😊
HI😘i am So Impressed With the Plants I Love and Forage here in South Louisiana. Wax mrtyle, the Sumac.,The passion Flower, Elderberry of course. Oh and Rhanks for the Sassafrass ID 😀 I m Lookin for that one. I male Wine and will use that😉
Awesome! Thanks for watching. This was actually filmed in N. Louisiana.
Love the downloaded guide! Hoping you have a full book too!
Thanks for sharing!!❤
Thank you! I like to forage, and I know many plants, but you've taught me even more and I appreciate it
This is the best and most comprehensive medicinal eadible plants video!
I'm glad you think so! Thank you for watching!!
Thank you! Great video!❤
Great Video.
I grew up in The Big Thicket of East Texas. I recognized many of these plants.
Note: The roots of the Green Briar are edible, as well as the tender shoots.
Thanks for watching! I grew up in East Texas as well, around Conroe and the Sam Houston. That's one of my favorite areas in the country
@LegacyWildernessAcademy
Awesome.
As a teen, I couldn't wait to explore other places. I've lived all over the US, and I never knew how special the East Texas biome was until I left.
Good Luck with your channel.
The knowledge of medicinal plants must not be lost.
😮 Tom!! Tom Bombadil! 🫨
Woah 🤯🕊️🙌🫶🏼
@@Spunky.Streams
Ring a ding dillo!
When I observed a herd of cows eating the tender tips of this plant I started picking and eating them to. But, I leave the ones for the cows!
Matthew, you are awesome. Please tell Darryl thank you so very much for training you. I loved all of his videos & you have obviously been a great student of his. I've already subscribed & look worward for more gems from you.
Great job, dude.
Thanks for watching!
Love this video! Wish there were more videos out there talking about in-depth plant id. Subscribed!
Thanks so much for watching!
Check out Adam Harrington with Learn Your Land.
Thanks for the video and PDF. Very educational. It makes me want to go out and see if I can find these plants for myself.
Love your video!!!Wonderful info! Thank you ❤️!!!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this wonderful informative video.
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
I had never heard of Youpon Holly til today. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it
Wishing you a happy new day
I think I have Youpon Holly in my yard….I do have the gum tree tooo
I wish I could give this video more than one thumbs up. Thanks for sharing your in depth knowledge of plants. Cheers!
Thanks Mike! Glad you enjoyed it. More coming soon!
Great video! TY!
Thanks for watching!
As a beginner, this is very helpful and informative! I'm not totally unfamiliar with plant identification since I can identify many species of plants common in Georgia floriculture, but I didn't know most of these plants. I've been trying to find a good list of wold edible plants in georgia but this is really the first i saw that was in-depth and that i could pay attention to. Thanks :)
Great video! I live in Georgia and have almost everything you showed. Now I know what to do with them! Thanks!🍃
Awesome! Good to know you'll be using the information!
What a great video!
Thanks for watching!
Excellent information. Love reading along with the transcript. Had to subscribe.
Awesome, thanks!
Great video, great info!!! Thank you so much!!
Thanks for the great video. The description of the plants is really good.
Thank you very much for the informative video!
Hi there! Thank you for this, just starting my full time vanlife and looking forward to learning from you! (So broke rn, need to forage for my pharmacy). Great presentation and excellent work ❤
Wishing you a happy new day
Wow what a great download of information, thank you.
Thank you for watching!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I’ve lived in the southeast off and on for most of my life (foreign deployments) and have been interested in this for awhile but now that I’m retired I think it would be great to get to know these plants.
Great Video ! Thank you for posting.
Excellent video! Love seeing local herbs highlighted
VERY informative! Thank you for sharing with us
Thank you. Love this! ❤
Awesome work. One of my favorite sites. Love all the great info on the plants down here.
Excellent...so glad I found your site...
this is such a good list, thanks!
Great video. My family and I are new but serious about foraging so this helps alot. We've been making and using Usnea Tincture, it works amazingly. Discovered Golden Chantrelle mushrooms last year....Mullein has been an interesting discovery too....
Thanks JJ from West TN
Thanks for watching!
Excellent information, Thank you.