Wild plants backpackers know should

Why learn more about wild plants only to migratory go? Of course it is interesting beyond of us, but also for some, a little knowledge of plants can save your life. This is not just about the edible ones. The food is actually a low priority in the most wilderness emergencies. There are many other important uses for the plants are.

Wild crops

Cattail: The Cattail is one of the most useful wild plants in the wild. Swampy or wet areas in the northern hemisphere have Cattail plants, and as soon as she identify you, you will never forget. While they have five edible parts, cattails are much more than food crops. Their long flat leaves have been for centuries to the baskets and food-serving trays to make. They can weave it into mats for sleeping, and even rough clothing out of them.

You should learn the "fluff" from the Cattail seed-head, which makes it one of the first wild plants. Cling seed heads the old fluffy often at the tips of the stems all year round. Set a spark to it and it, which can use them in flame burst. This can be a life saver if you have games. Stuff your jacket of full Cattail down and will turn it into a winter coat, might you save from the number one killer in the wilderness: hypothermia.

Some have reported with Cattail as insect repellent. Keep only grubby fire go through the combustion of the seed fluff. This may not be more effective than any smoky fire, but it's so easy to collect and burn Cattail fluff that is worth it, memory of.

Yuccas: Leaves with strong top ends are Schwertförmige to recognize this simple plants. Some plants can be so easy to make used rope or Twine. In the California desert, I peeled Yucca leaves in strips and woven in a rope in a matter of thirty minutes. With two men pulling hard on both ends could not we break. This is one of the better facilities for making ropes and finer string (separate the finest fibers).

Yucca also provide needle and thread emergency repairs. Reduce the top a leaf Yucca from the inside, one inch you and about half way through. Turn again, and you will be able, Peel some fibers of the leaf, which remain attached to the "Needle" or top of the page. I moved two foot long strands fibers on this way, and stitched clothes with them.

Milkweeds: Multiple parts are edible with proper preparation, and some people apply the white SAP on warts, get rid of them. That really is the seed fluff useful the milkweed, however. It is even easy fluff flammable as Cattail, so that you can use it to start fires by sparks.

A large Insulater is to even something like goose down. Fill bread bags with milkweed down and these "gloves" are your hands very keep warm. Place your hands and bind the bag around the wrist or plug it into your sleeve.

Some other useful wild plants? White Birch tree better than paper, also in the wet burns that the bark. Bubbles on fir trees (small) and you can pop SAP SAP as an antiseptic dressing for small incisions. The juice from partner to lubricate garlic and onion to itself as an insect repellent. There are endless possibilities, use wild plants, so why not to learn and practice only some?

You can still learn more on www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant and www.plant-care.com for more information.