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