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