ALLIGATOR WEED

LOCATION

• Shallow water
• Wet soils
• Ditches
• Marshes
• Edges of ponds and slow-moving watercourses

PREPARATION

• You have to cook it
• Cooking it kills any aquatic parasites
• Chop it up to minimize toughness
• Also make sure the water you get it from has no harmful materials
• Has a mild, pleasant taste

IDENTIFICATION

• glossy spear-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs along the stems
• Hollow stems
• papery white ball-shaped flowers on short stalks.