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| 1 |
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Amaranth. Can eat leaves in Spring (seeds in Fall). Like spinach. Eat raw or cooked. |
| 2 |
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Poor man's pepper |
| 3 |
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Mica cap mushroom. Turns into black ink. Not poisonous, but not good to eat. |
| 4 |
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Hedge mustard. Good in salads. In season from April to June. |
| 5 |
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Psathyrella mushroom? Not good to eat. |
| 6 |
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Chickweed. My camera can never focus correctly on this! |
| 7 |
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Big field of chickweed. |
| 8 |
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Chickweed flower closeup. |
| 9 |
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White snakeroot. Poisonous. |
| 10 |
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Garlic mustard, first year. Starts to get bitter this time of year. Root is like horseradish. |
| 11 |
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Garlic mustard, second year. |
| 12 |
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Wood sorrel |
| 13 |
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Mugwort. Not eaten, but used as a tonic. |
| 14 |
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Fairy ring mushrooms. Must be cooked. Caps only. Stems too tough. |
| 15 |
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Gout weed. |
| 16 |
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Gout weed with flowers. |
| 17 |
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Gout weed in flower. A field of them. |
| 18 |
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Wild rose, or multi-flora rose. Leaves are edible. In fall rose hips, but have many seeds. |
| 19 |
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Wild rose flower closeup. |
| 20 |
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June berry. Very delicious berries in June. |
| 21 |
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Spring agrocybe, or hard agrocybe. Not good to eat. |
| 22 |
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Red bud bush. |
| 23 |
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Red bud bush, with edible pods. Can eat raw. Cook like snow peas. Flowers also good in April. |
| 24 |
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Common blue violet. Tastes like lettuce. |
| 25 |
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Common spice bush. Has alternating leaves. Leaves only good for tea. Berries in Fall are like allspice. |
| 26 |
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Poison ivy. |
| 27 |
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Greater celandine. Don't eat. Juice used on warts. |
| 28 |
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Greater celandine flower closeup. |
| 29 |
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Plum tree. Plums are in June. |
| 30 |
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Baby painted turtle. |
| 31 |
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Curly dock. Seeds edible. Leaves still edible, though now a little sour. |
| 32 |
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Garlic mustard. Stems now too tough, but bulbs good. Like garlic. |
| 33 |
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Hawthorne tree. Berries in Fall. |
| 34 |
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Hawthorne tree closeup. |
| 35 |
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Mulberry tree. Berries in mid-June to July. |
| 36 |
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Mulberry tree branch closeup. |
| 37 |
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Mulberry tree berry closeup. |
| 38 |
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Buttercup. Poisonous. Possibly Ranunculus bulbosus, commonly known as St Anthony's turnip or bulbous buttercup. |
| 39 |
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Gingko. Nuts in Fall. |
| 40 |
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Steve holding pokeweed. Hard to cook. Root is poisonous. |
| 41 |
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Pokeweed in situ. |
| 42 |
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Grape leaves. Can roll food up in them. |
| 43 |
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Quince. Fruit is ripe in Fall. Sour. |
| 44 |
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Quince flowers. |
| 45 |
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Quince flower closeup. |
| 46 |
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Common nightshade. Poisonous. |
| 47 |
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Lamb's quarters. Good from May to November. |
| 48 |
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Hedge mustard. Very young. |
| 49 |
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Gall. Insects laid eggs in leaves with food supply. Baby insects are inside. |
| 50 |
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Burdock. Now can peel stems and boil for one minute. Very short season for stems. |