The flowers, leaves, and stems of this plant are a delicious trail food with a mild flavor of fresh green beans. Any travelers crossing the alpine meadows of the Rockies would have taken time to gather these very common dwellers in the alpine for a fresh veggie and if necessary as medicine. These plants are high in B vitamins and vitamin C.
The whole fresh plants were crushed and applied to open wounds and blisters as a coolant and to speed up the healing process. The plants in this genus contain mucopolysaccharides to stimulate “knitting” or the healing over of a wound.
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