Henbit Nettle
Just learned what this spring beauty is. Nettle is a member of the mint family. Whether stinging nettle, dead nettle, or henbit nettle, they are all edible. One property they have is they are a histamine. Another is they are high in vitamin c. This time of year, people like to eat them or make them into a tea to help with allergies. They are used for many other treatments. The time to collect nettles is when they are in bloom. We have very few here, I'll leave them for the pollinators as winter persisted and we have few spring blooms for the bees.
