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Native Plants of the Chaplin Lake Area

Wild licorice

Glycyrrhiza lepidota

The flowers of this plant are yellowish and its fruit is reddish in colour at maturity. Its rootstock is thick and has a sweet licorice flavour. Roots are edible raw or cooked and are often dried for use as tea. It is usually found along road and railway grades in dry sandy soils. Its fruit is a bur-like pod, long and densely covered with hooked prickles.

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