Canadian Horseweed
Erigeron canadensis
Another “weed” “whose virtue has yet to be discovered” – at least to the outside world. To the Lakota and Dakota people this plant is a well-known vegetable, eaten raw it resembles cilantro but simmered as a tea it has a flavor like root beer.
Medicinally this root beer drink is used by native people to ease heartburn and acid reflux.
A member of a genus of plants known as fleabanes due to some of its members being used as flea repellents, this species has a spotty occurrence across the continent from west coast to east coast and may be called Canadian fleabane, Canadian horseweed, or just horseweed depending on the location.