*Can be confused with highly poisonous Water Hemlock*

Also know as Indian celery or Indian rhubarb. It is stil widely used as a green vegetable. Nearly every Native group reports harvesting the young stalks and leaf stems, peeling off the fibrous outer layer, and eating them raw. The stems were also boiled, steamed, fried or roasted. Several groups made toy flutes or whistles out of the dry hollow stems.