When hiking or going through a park you don’t see wild vegetables such as head of lettuce or zucchini? Or potatoes?
Also never hear of survival situations where they find potatoes or veggies that they lived on? (I know you have to eat a lot of vegetables to get some actual nutrients but it has got to be better then nothing)
Edit: thank you for the replies, I’m not an outdoors person, if you couldn’t tell lol. I was viewing the domesticated veggies but now it makes sense. And now I’m afraid of carrots.
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You find wild edible plants anywhere. The thing is as a lay person you don’t recognize it because it looks nothing like its modern domesticated equivalent. For example it’s widely believed that teosinte is the wild plant that was domesticated into corn. It’s a small grass with small seeds that look like small pebbles in a hard husk.
[Brassica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea) which is one of the most common family of leafy greens we eat such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens. The wild plant looks more like a big-leafed weed.
Wild onion and wild garlic are common in forests in North America. The problem is varieties of deathcamas look very similar and eating can have significant health risks as the name implies.
At the right time of year, mid to late spring, early summer you can often find wild berries. In the pacific northwest you can find huckleberry patches.
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