Planning on building a primitive living structure in the woods while you’re hungry? Then you may want to know Softstem Bulrush, Scirpus validus or Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, this ornamental grass could save your life!

Softstem Bulrush Sources:

Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey. Cherokee Plants and Their Uses- A 400 Year History. North Carolina: Herald Publishing. 1975. Print. pg. 27

Herrick, James William. Iroquois Medical Botany. Ph.D. Thesis, New York: State University of New York, Albany 1977. Print. pg. 93, 242

Moerman Daniel E., Native American Ethnobotany, Portland: Timber Press. 1998. Print. pg. 523-524

Peterson, Lee Allen. The Peterson Field Guide Series; A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants; Eastern and Central North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Print. pg. 230-231

United States Department of Agriculture. Natural Resources Conservation Services. Web.