Edible flowers commercialized in local markets of Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, Mexico

Background: Edible flowers are important food resources due to their high content of nutrients and bioactive compounds. In Mexico these have been part the diet indigenous mestizo, also sources income for families that cultivate, gather sell them.
 Questions: What species edible flower commercialized in local markets Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, Mexico? How they prepared? nutritional contents conservation risk categories according literature?
 Studied species: Agave salmiana , A. mapisaga Aloe vera Arbutus xalapensis Chenopodium berlandieri subsp. nuttalliae Cucurbita pepo ssp . C. moschata Dasylirion acrotrichum Erythrina americana Euphorbia radians Myrtillocactus geometrizans Phaseolus coccineus Yucca filamentosa .
 Study site dates: Local Mexico. January 2019 March 2020.
 Methods: Interview-purchase with sellers direct observations markets. Bibliographic review recorded status.
 Results: We 13 eight preparation methods. Five cultivated, five gathered from pine-oak forest or xerophilous scrub ecosystems three obtained crops natural ecosystems. The gualumbos ( ) most had forms (six). Seven traded placed a category.
 Conclusions: diversity used, methods exemplify traditional knowledge groups handle them importance as economic sustenance.