Possible staple crops

Do you know any plant which have a potentional to become a staple crop?

I'm now somehow interested in semi-aquatic temperate-boreal eurasian potentional crops.
Can Sagittaria sagittifolia and Typha with its energy-rich rhyzomes became one?
 
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Delvestius

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You mean ones that weren't considered such in the first place? I mean, Corn in Europe is possible, problem is it just sucked up a lot of water. A world without wheat would probably depend more on Barley or Millet.
 
well maybe name of topic is a bit misleading.
It should be like "Potentionably domesticable plants which can become a staple crop"
There are numerous topics about generally potentionably domesticable animals, but none about plants, which are usually a basis of settled cultures
 

Delvestius

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well maybe name of topic is a bit misleading.
It should be like "Potentionably domesticable plants which can become a staple crop"
There are numerous topics about generally potentionably domesticable animals, but none about plants, which are usually a basis of settled cultures

I mean, most plants that could be used are, and if they were worth being used on a wide scale, they would be. Of course, there are all sorts of smaller plants that have uses most common people are ignorant of, but if we were to use the adjective "staple", we pretty much hit on all of those by by now.
 
I'm now somehow interested in semi-aquatic temperate-boreal eurasian potentional crops.
Semi-aquatic?

Taro was reasonably well-known in the Roman world. With a few historical tweaks, it could remain a staple.

The devil nut (water caltrop) is cultivated in several parts of the world, and used to be even more widespread. One and a half centuries ago, one was just as likely to find roasted caltrops as chestnuts at fairs and markets.

The gorgon lily (Euryale ferox) is another contender.
 
Cattail, it was eaten in Europe but I don't know why it fell out of favor.

In general I think more perennial plants would be good, less work for the farmer.
 
walter caltrop looks interesting. I want to possivly exploit idea of marshy northern-eurasian agriculture. With it, whole baltics, finland and nothern russian region would be far more populous
 
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