PLANTS AT A GLANCE!
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arrowhead, wapato
black birch
burdock
carrot, wild
cattail
chameleon
chicory
cresses
dandelion
daylily
evening primrose
garlic, wild
garlic mustard
ginger
groundnut
Jerusalem artichoke lesser
celandine
lovage, wild celery
mallows
mustards
onion, wild
parsnip, wild
ramps
reed grass
salsify
sassafras
skunk cabbage
smilax, carrion
Solomon’s seal
thistles
toothwort
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asparagus, wild
bamboo
cattail
daylily
devil's walking stick (at
connections, between stalk
and branches)
dock (patience dock is best)
fiddlehead fern
American groundnut/ wild
bean / hopniss
hosta
japanese knotweed, caution
milkweed
pokeweed, caution
reed grass
smilax, carrion
smilax, greenbrier
sorrel, wild
sweet potato pomoea batatus
source: www.wildfoodies.org for southeastern PA region
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anise hyssop
borage
cherry tree
chervil
cornflower or
bachelor's button
dandelion
day Lily
garlic
geranium or
pelargonium
ginger
goldenrod
hibiscus
lavender
locust, black
lotus or water lily
malva
marigold, wild,
calendula
mints
mustards
nasturtium
onion
peony
plumeria or frangipani
primrose
rose
rose of sharon hibiscus family
sage
salsify
savory
sunflower
tuberose
violets
yucca
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amaranth
amaranth / mat
amaranth / spiny
asiatic dayflower
asparagus
bamboo
chameleon
cardoon
carpetweed
carrion / smilax
carrot
chamomile
chamomile /
pineappleweed
chickweed, common
chickweed, fuzzy,
mouse-eared
chicory
cleaver / bedstraw
clover, red
clover, white
cress, pepper
cress, spring, Bitter
cress, water
cress, winter, yellow
rocket
dandelion
daylily
devil’s walking stick
dock / bitter
dock / curly
dock / patience
dock / yellow
epazote / wormseed
fern, ostrich,
fiddleheads
garlic grass
goldenrods
goutweed
grapevine
grass (filter fiber)
grass, crab
groundnut, american /
hopniss
hollyhock
hosta
hyacinth bean vine
jerusalem artichoke
knotweed / japaneese
knotgrass
kudzu
lady’s thumb /
smartweed
lamb’s quarters
lesser celendine
lettuce, prickly
lettuce, bitter
mallow, common
mallow, high
mallow, hollyhock
mallow, marsh
mallow, rose of sharon
mallow, velvet leaf
mints, bee balm
mints, deadnettle
mints, ground ivy /
creeping charlie
mints, henbit
mints, horsemint
mint, licorice
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mints, mountain mint
mints, spearmint
mugwort / sagewort /
wormwood
mustard, shepard’s
purse, chinese cress
mustard, field
mustard, garlic
nettles, stinging
nettles, wood
nettles, false
nettles, clearweed
onion grass
parsnip / wild
parsnip / cow
parsnip / water
plantain, broad leaf
plantain, narrow leaf
pokeweed / Inkberry
poor man's pepper /
peppergrass
porcelain berry vine
leaf
potato vine, wild, I
pomoea
prickly pear, eastern /
indian fig
primrose, evening
purslane
quickweed
ramps
radish
rose of sharon
salsify
sassafras
spicebush
sedum
skunk cabbage –
needs more research
smilax / greenbrier
solomon’s seal
sorrel, sheep
sorrel, wood
sow thistle
spiderwort
strawberry, indian
strawberry, wild
strawberry, wild barren
sunflower, wild
thistle, bull
thistle, milk
violets, wild
virginia waterleaf
winter green
woodland lettuce /
canada / yellow
yarrow
FRUIT:
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apple, crab
apple, wild
apricot
autumn olives
barberry
beautyberry
blackberry
black nightshade
blueberry, high bush
blueberry, low bush
brambles, red raspberry
brambles, black raspberry
brambles, blackberry
brambles, dewberry
brambles, wineberry
cherry, pin
cherry, black
cherry, choke
cherry, cornelian
chokeberry, black
chokeberry, red
cranberry, bog
cranberry, high bush
currant
dogwood, kousa
elderberry
gooseberry
grape
ground cherry
hackberry, American
hawthorn
honeysuckle, mountain fly
huckleberry
kiwi, hardy
lemon, chinese bitter orange/
trifoliate orange
mayapple
maypop, purple passionflower
mulberry
papaw
paper mulberry
partridgeberry
peach
pear, callery
persimmon
plum, beach
plum, wild, American
pokeberry (caution, cook,
remove seeds)
porcelain berry
prickly pear, east coast cactus,
Indian fig
quince
rose hips
rose hips, rosa rogusa
rowan, mountain ash
serviceberry, juneberry
serviceberry, red juneberry
smilax, carrion
smilax, greenbrier
snowberry, creeping or moxie
plum
spicebush berries
strawberry, Indian
strawberry, wild
sumac, staghorn (red berries
only)
viburnum, black haw
viburnum, cranberry
viburnum, nannyberry
winter green
yewberry (remove seed,
extremely toxic)
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burdock (second year, leaf
stalk also)
cattail
docks
mallow
reed grass
salsify
solomon's seal
thistle
wild celery
SEEDS:
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curly dock
elm tree, chinese
elm tree, siberian
jewelweed
juniper berry
locust tree, honey
mallow, indian
mustard
maple tree
sunflower, wild
thistle, milk
BEANS:
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american groundnut / hopniss /
wild bean
ginkgo
hyacinth bean
locust, black
locust, honey
lupini beans
milkweed pod
GRAINS: (& seeds used like grains)
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amaranth
cattails
foxtail grass
lamb's quarters
rice
reed grass
TREES
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beech
birch
elm
empress
ginkgo
hawthorn
holly, american
linden / basswood
maple
mulberry
paper mulberry
pine needles (excepting the
toxic yew tree/bush and
some western pines)
sassafras
spice bush
willow
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aspen
basswood
balsam fir
balsam poplar
birch, white
douglas fir
elm, chinese
elm, siberian
hemlocks
larches - read cautions
maple
pine
ponderosa pine
spruces
trembling aspen
two-needled pines
western red cedar
willow
NUTS:
sugar water:
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acorns
black walnut
butternut
hazelnut
hickory
beech
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ash
birch
hickory
maple (sugar, black, red, &
silver sycamore)
walnut
sycamore