Foraging in Cunningham Park

Number	Thumbnail	Caption	Number	Thumbnail	Caption
1		Common Evening Primrose Scientific name: Oenothera biennis	2		Common Evening Primrose Scientific name: Oenothera biennis
3		Common Evening Primrose. Note white vein down the middle of the leaf. Scientific name: Oenothera biennis	4		Common Evening Primrose - Flower Scientific name: Oenothera biennis
5		Common Evening Primrose. Some seeds in Wildman’s hand. Scientific name: Oenothera biennis	6		Common Evening Primrose. Note four-parted stigma forming an X. I don’t know why it wasn’t centered better. Scientific name: Oenothera biennis
7		Common Evening Primrose - dried flowers. Scientific name: Oenothera biennis	8		Common Evening Primrose - dried flowers. Scientific name: Oenothera biennis
9		Wild Carrot	10		Wild Carrot
11		Wild Carrot	12		Lamb’s-Quarters Scientific name: Chenopodium album
13		Lamb’s-Quarters Scientific name: Chenopodium album	14		Lamb’s-Quarters Scientific name: Chenopodium album
15		Red Clover Scientific name: Trifolium pratense	16		Red Clover Scientific name: Trifolium pratense
17		Red Clover Scientific name: Trifolium pratense	18		Sheep Sorrel Scientific name: Rumex acetosella
19		Sheep Sorrel Scientific name: Rumex acetosella	20		Sheep Sorrel Scientific name: Rumex acetosella
21		Hawthorne Berries Scientific name: Crataegus species	22		Poison Ivy - patch. Wildman always points this one out and warns the tour participants. Scientific name: Rubus laciniatus
23		Blackberry. Scientific name: Toxicodendron radicans	24		Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely) Scientific name: Osmorhiza longistylis
25		Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely) Scientific name: Osmorhiza longistylis	26		Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely) Scientific name: Osmorhiza longistylis
27		Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely). This and the next were from later in the tour. Scientific name: Osmorhiza longistylis	28		Aniseroot (Sweet Cicely) Scientific name: Osmorhiza longistylis
29		Sassafras. Well, the leaves had all fallen, and the camera would never have focused on the twigs of the little ones, so I took pictures of some trunks. This one the flash came on. Scientific name: Sassafras albidum	30		Sassafras. Then I tried one with the flash turned off. Scientific name: Sassafras albidum
31		Sassafras. A bigger trunk with the flash on. The camera has a tendency to overexpose flash pictures. Scientific name: Sassafras albidum	32		Sassafras. So I took one with the flash off. But with the longer exposure time, and hand holding the camera, it is a bit blurred. Scientific name: Sassafras albidum
33		Wild Asparagus. Wrong time of the year to eat it, but here’s a picture of it anyway.	34		Crab Apple Tree Scientific name: Malus
35		Crab Apple Tree Scientific name: Malus	36		Crab Apple. Wildman cut one open to show that all apples have the seeds in a star. Scientific name: Malus
37		Poor Man’s Pepper Scientific name: Lepidium virginicum	38		Rose Hips. With people grabbing the tree it was hard to take a picture of a moving bunch of berries. Scientific name: Rosa spieces
39		Wild Bay Leaf Scientific name: Myrica pensylvanica	40		Blewit Mushroom
41		Blewit Mushroom	42		Wild Parsnips
43		Wild Parsnips. A nice fat tap root.	44		Wild Parsnips. The fellow that dug this one spent quite a while to get such a long root.
45		Garlic Mustard Scientific name: Alliaria officinalis	46		Garlic Mustard Scientific name: Alliaria officinalis
47		Garlic Mustard Scientific name: Alliaria officinalis	48		Garlic Mustard. Well, the seeds were almost all gone, but I found a few. There were some in this picture, but they didn’t come out. On pictures like this the camera has difficulty focusing. Scientific name: Alliaria officinalis
49		Northern Wild Raisins Scientific name: Viburnum opulus or V. cassinoides	50		Northern Wild Raisins Scientific name: Viburnum opulus or V. cassinoides
51		Northern Wild Raisin Bush Scientific name: Viburnum opulus or V. cassinoides	52		Reishi Mushroom. Too old to eat.
53		Witch Hazel Scientific name: Hamamelis	54		Witch Hazel Scientific name: Hamamelis
55		Wild Apples. Real apples and not crab apples. That’s Wildman there with his arm outstretched, pointing out more of the trees.	56		Wild Apples. To get them down some of the guys climbed the trees and shook them down. One got much higher up than this picture shows.
57		Wild Apple - Closeup. Isn’t it pretty?	58		Field Garlic (Wild Onions). We didn’t have time to go over this one. We spent a lot of time collecting apples. But I took a quick shot of a bunch. Scientific name: Allium vineale

Index for Album F-1999-11-14: Foraging in Cunningham Park - Nov 14, 1999

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