Fungi combine with algae or bacteria to create Lichen, a composite organism. Native Americans were reported to have visited Pilchuck Mountain every summer to collect and dry lichen, the average family collecting many pounds of various types (but never yellow)! Europeans set foot here occurred less than 250 years ago, what was it that the Indigenous Peoples had discovered about Lichen? Please know that most native NW plants make humans sick, many can kill. ~1 in 10, with proper preparation, are consumable; even then perhaps only a part of the plant (root, stalk, leaf, or fruit) is edible.
Lichens and the Meaning of Life – The Marginalian
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