Monkey Flower

I have neglected to post for the past couple of days, five to be exact, so I'll try catching up on what I have missed to say. Here's a cool tip, monkey flower can be used to create a salt additive to meals. The monkey flower is albe to do this by concentrating sodium chloride and other salts absorbed from the soils in which they grow in their leaves and stem tissues. Native Americans and early travelers in the American West used this plant as a salt substitute to flavor wild game. The entire plant is edible, but reported to be very salty and bitter unless well cooked. Other medicinal and edible plants grow in the Presidio. Huh, I wonder if I can find more.