All the following produce nuts which are good raw or toast them for a milder flavor. The husk of hickory nuts is divided into 4 sections which loosen as the nut matures. Gather nuts when they fall to the ground, before the squirrels get to them. Gather nuts as they fall to the ground. If it smells like onion, it is onion and therefore safe to eat.
Grasslike leaves surround a flowering stalk with a cluster of white or pink flowers.
You can often see the remains of a squirrel's feast, where he sat on an exposed rock and systematically stripped the scales off a pine cone as if he were eating a corn cob. The Pine cob remains in the scale litter, all the pine nuts gone. Pine nuts are good raw or toasted. Tender green needles may be chopped fine and steeped to make tea. Leaves form a basal rosette from which a flowering stalk arises, bearing many tiny seeds.