7 Delicious Edible Flowers To Harvest In Spring

Edible flowers are some of the first wild foods to show up after the long, cold winter. These tasty flowers add delicious, unusual flavors and colors to many different dishes. Plus many of these flowers are high in phytonutrients and have medicinal properties. Spring is definitely my favorite season, there’s so much wild food appearing!

Common And Not So Common Edible Flowers

I’ve already made flower jelly with dandelions and violets. Here’s a link to my Dandelion Flower Jelly post if you want to make some.

Violets (Viola odorata) are a common flower in lawns and gardens. They’re so prolific, it’s easy to gather a bunch of flowers in no time. Violet flowers are wonderful in salads, vinegar, as jelly, added to desserts and sugared for a treat. Take advantage of the short time they are available, you won’t be sorry!

I also gather the leaves to infuse in oil for several weeks for topical use. The oil is wonderful for healing skin issues. Violet leaves can be used in salads, soups or omelettes.

Eastern redbud tree (Cercis canadensis) flowers are one of the more unusual…