Anyone have experience to share about foraging & using PNW Ferns (fiddleheads)?? Please include specific scientific name and general region in discussion. Thanks! Look forward to hearing your stories!! 
http://honest-food.net/bracken-fern-edible/
i can’t speak to pnw plants specifically, but in the u.p of michigan i have eaten abundant ostrich fern & bracken fern. i Love ostrich fern’s latin name: Matteuccia struthiopteris. 
& bracken fern is Pteridium aquilinum. i read a lot of blog posts & articles about safety/danger of bracken & chose to eat it so long as it was blanched & properly cooked. have taken some wonderful pictures of these delicious wild foods. i’ve turned them into vinegar pickles & canned them in soup mixes successfully.
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