It is a popular food that is harvested from May to July, but is better if it is picked before flowering. Nodding onion can be eaten raw and bundled then steam-cooked in underground pits. After it is cooked in the pits with other foods, it becomes sweet in taste.
Spring beauty has small potato-like corms.
This small, delicate, herb has white flowers that appear after the snow melts. These potatoes are dug during May and June. They can be eaten raw.