They grew these foods in the gardens: corn, squash, pumpkins, beans, and sunflowers. They may also have grown gourds to make into bowls and birdhouses. They grew tobacco to use in ceremonies. (The Timucua did not know that tobacco causes cancer.)

They collected these foods that grew wild in the forest: blackberries, grapes, peas, peppergrass, yaupon holly, acorns from oak trees, hickory nuts, pigweed, dandelions, huckleberries, sabal palm, saw palmetto, plums, maple sap, mushrooms, and many more.

They collected these plants to use for things other than food: Willow tree bark was used to make aspirin. Wax myrtle leaves could be rubbed on the skin as bug spray. Cypress tree trunks were made into canoes. The branches and trunks of hickory trees were made into bows. Rivercane (like bamboo) was used to make arrows. Palm and palmetto leaves were woven into mats and baskets and used to make the roofs of their huts. Many wildflowers could be made into medicines like eye drops, cough medicine, and burn ointment.

REMEMBER: It is DANGEROUS to eat any wild plant because

1) It might be poisonous!

2) It might have poisonous weed killer or bug spray on it!