| Number | Thumbnail | Caption |
| 1 | |
Wisteria. Flowers are edible, seeds and leaves are poisonous. Blooms in spring, but you will get some summer blooms where it has been cut back. |
| 2 | |
Epazote. Can dry and save. You don't eat it, but use as a seasoning in bean dishes. |
| 3 | |
Epazote. Close up of flowers. |
| 4 | |
Lamb's quarters. A wild spinach. Eat in salad or steamed. |
| 5 | |
Hackberries. Not ripe yet. |
| 6 | |
Central Park Lake |
| 7 | |
Central Park Lake |
| 8 | |
Poor man's pepper |
| 9 | |
Gill-over-the-ground, or ground ivy. Can make tea with fresh leaves. Is in the mint family. |
| 10 | |
May apple. Green on plant is poisonous. When fallen and yellow is delicious. |
| 11 | |
May apple. Wildman about to eat a ripe one. |
| 12 | |
May apple leaves |
| 13 | |
Wild raisin. Ripe in October. |
| 14 | |
Doubles arches on 77th St. bridge. Under the left one was originally an extension of the lake. |
| 15 | |
Wineberries. An Asian raspberry. Humans have taken most. |
| 16 | |
Wineberry closeup. |
| 17 | |
Extension of Central Park Lake |
| 18 | |
Black cherries |
| 19 | |
Sweet gum tree. See five pointed leaf. Not edible. Crush leaf and smells like furniture polish. |
| 20 | |
Indian pipe. Native American plant. A wildflower that parasitizes tree roots. Does not make chlorophyll. |
| 21 | |
Reishi mushroom. Need to boil two hours. |
| 22 | |
Common nightshade. Poisonous, but won't kill you. |
| 23 | |
Spider that one of the kids found while eating lunch. |
| 24 | |
Garlic mustard. Leaves in summer too bitter. |
| 25 | |
Garlic mustard root. Is good now. Like horseradish. |
| 26 | |
Burdock. 1st year. Can dig up root. Slice diagonally and cook. |
| 27 | |
Burdock. 2nd year. Not edible. |
| 28 | |
Bitter dock flower |
| 29 | |
Bitter dock seeds |
| 30 | |
Poke weed. Poisonous seeds. |
| 31 | |
Lady's thumb. A mild salad green. In smartweed family. |
| 32 | |
Common plantain. Seeds are edible. Steve doesn't like. |
| 33 | |
Blackberries. European cut leaf variety. |
| 34 | |
Elderberries. But no berries! |
| 35 | |
American persimmon. But no fruit this year. |
| 36 | |
Kentucky coffee tree beans. Poisonous now. Must be baked 3 hours at 300 degrees. Must cover as they will pop. Then grind up. Can collect year round. |
| 37 | |
Kentucky coffee tree leaves. |
| 38 | |
Garlic mustard. 2nd year. Can collect seeds. Put in at end of cooking. |
| 39 | |
Common violet closeup. New small leaves edible. Root poisonous. |
| 40 | |
Field garlic. Drooping. Seeds edible now. Also bulbs, but small and hard to peel. |
| 41 | |
Sassafras tree. Note three leaf shapes. |
| 42 | |
Sassafras root. Can make tea from it. Flavor is in the cambium, the outer layer on the root. |
| 43 | |
Wood sorrel. Nice patch near Belvedere Castle. Note heart shaped leaves. |
| 44 | |
Chickweed. Small patch. Bigger one now covered with wood chips. |
| 45 | |
Blueberries near Belvedere Castle. Surprising that humans didn't get them first. |
| 46 | |
Yew berries. Berry is edible, but seed is poisonous. |
| 47 | |
Apple |
| 48 | |
Cornelian cherry. Still green. Different trees ripen at different times. Needs to be a dark red to be good. If bright red will ripen at home. |
| 49 | |
Cornelian cherries on the ground. |
| 50 | |
Someone found a caterpiller. |
| 51 | |
Juneberry bush. Season is past. In June. |
| 52 | |
Hawthorne. Too early. |
| 53 | |
Purslane |
| 54 | |
Peach tree. There are three of them south of the 86th St. transverse road. |
| 55 | |
Peaches. Not ripe yet. |
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