LOL, ebbie:

Now, edible flowers, that's a different story. Back when I was working at a Museum and Nature Center, I read a lot (and experimented a lot) eating wild flowers and plants. And cultivated ones. My wife was asking me about eating dandelions when we were on our walk today. The leaves, when the weed first comes up, before the flowers are in bloom are fine in a salad. I made dandelion wine once, in the days when I was making a lot of wine. I hated it (and made five gallons.) Fortunately, my boss loved dandelion wine, so I kept him plied with it for a whole year. Skunk cabbage leaves are good in the spring, too, if you eat them when they first come up. And Day Lillies.... yummmmmm.. very nice, sauteed in butter if you pick the flowers before they open. One year for our Annual Meeting, everything we served for refreshments came from our woods.

Naw... it's white wheat flour that's bad for you. Maybe the flowers, themselves are o.k....

Jerry