Yellow Primrose

Beautiful yellow flowers and stalks turn red in fall.

The evening primrose plant is one of the few native wildflowers in North America. As the name suggests, the yellow evening primrose blooms at night. It produces lovely yellow flowers from May to July.
It is considered to have a wide array of medicinal uses from relieving headaches and inducing labor to curing baldness and as a treatment for laziness.

The all parts if the evening primrose plant can also be eaten. The leaves are eaten like leaves and the roots are eaten like potatoes http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/flower/yellow-evening-primrose-plant-wildflower-in-the-garden.htm