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| 1 |
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Cornelian cherries. Fruits are all gone now. |
| 2 |
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Lady's thumb. A mild salad green. Flowers also edible, but leaves taste better. In smartweed family. |
| 3 |
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Common plantain. Leaves can be put on mosquito bites. |
| 4 |
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Common plantain seeds. Good for constipation. Can grind up and use as egg replacer. |
| 5 |
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Poor man's pepper |
| 6 |
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Bottlebrush buckeye. Wildman didn't know this one. Identified with help on the web. All parts may cause mild stomach upset if ingested. |
| 7 |
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Fruit from the mystery plant. |
| 8 |
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Lamb's quarters. With spots on leaves. |
| 9 |
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Epazote |
| 10 |
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Stink horn mushroom. Flies land on it and spread the spores. |
| 11 |
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Ringless honey mushroom. Note color. Edible after cooking. Get sick if eaten raw. Very delicious. |
| 12 |
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Virginia knotweed. For kids to play with. Not edible. |
| 13 |
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Amaranth |
| 14 |
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Wood sorrel |
| 15 |
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Burdock, 1st year |
| 16 |
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Burdock root that a tour participant dug up. |
| 17 |
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Burdock, 2nd year |
| 18 |
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Puff ball mushroom covered with mold. Poisonous. |
| 19 |
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Grape leaves. Grapes not ready. Can see a couple green ones behind the leaves. |
| 20 |
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Kousa dogwood. From Japan. |
| 21 |
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Kousa dogwood fruits |
| 22 |
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Chicken mushroom. Two weeks too old. |
| 23 |
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Guilder rose. Very bitter but not poisonous. In viburnum family. |
| 24 |
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Elderberry. So many berries the branches are drooping. Berries are better cooked. Stems poisonous, so you have to pull all the berries off. |
| 25 |
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Virginia creeper. Poisonous. |
| 26 |
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Greater ragweed. Allergenic, not edible. |
| 27 |
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Common ragweed. Allergenic, not edible. |
| 28 |
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Poison ivy |
| 29 |
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Common nightshade. Poisonous. |
| 30 |
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Mugwort |
| 31 |
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Buckeye chestnut. American version of horse chestnut. Poisonous. |
| 32 |
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Small toad |
| 33 |
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Garlic mustard, 2nd year. Seeds are edible. |
| 34 |
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Garlic mustard, 1st year. Leaves are edible in spring and fall. |
| 35 |
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Garlic mustard root. Like horsradish. |
| 36 |
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Sassafras |
| 37 |
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Sassafras root. Boil for tea. |
| 38 |
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Sweet gum. Smells like furniture polish. Not edible. |
| 39 |
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Jewelweed |
| 40 |
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Jewelweed flowers |
| 41 |
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Jewelweed seed pods. |
| 42 |
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Jewelweed seeds. Can eat seeds, but not flowers. |
| 43 |
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Beech tree |
| 44 |
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Beech nut husk |
| 45 |
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Yellow watercress |
| 46 |
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Black walnut. Still early, return in October. |
| 47 |
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Praying mantis. It has a beetle, which you can't see here. |
| 48 |
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Purple flowering raspberry. Didn't fruit well this year. |
| 49 |
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Gout weed and Eve. |
| 50 |
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Hawthorne |