Evening primrose seeds

I decided that the line the book meme had turned up for me, about edible evening primrose roots, must have been for a reason.  No doubt a prompt to sample some for myself.  I have only one evening primrose plant and hadn't noticed it for quite some time - in fact not since it had stopped flowering.  I took a trowel, prepared to lift out the root if it appeared ready for eating.  It was far too small - and I didn't want to lose my only plant anyway - but I did notice that the flower heads were now all brown and dried and full of tiny seeds.  I also saw that I had originally noted on the plant tag that the seeds could be eaten on cereal.

I gathered some up for sampling.  They were fine and crunchy like poppy-seed, and once inside, some more quick research turned up a confirmation that they could be used as a poppy-seed substitute.  Since the highly beneficial evening primrose oil is pressed from these seeds, it would seem that eating them direct would have those same health benefits.

The seeds have now been put aside to be germinated and maybe to plant a small primrose crop.  *Sigh*- one thing inevitably leads to another.