| Number | Thumbnail | Caption |
| 1 | |
Burdock |
| 2 | |
Burdock root |
| 3 | |
Mountain watercress |
| 4 | |
Mountain watercress with flower |
| 5 | |
Mountain watercress flower closeup |
| 6 | |
Orpine |
| 7 | |
Stand of knotweed stalks from last year |
| 8 | |
Knotweed sprouts. Only good for another week or so. |
| 9 | |
Day lilies |
| 10 | |
Day lily closeup |
| 11 | |
Jewelweed sprouts. Medicinal, not edible. |
| 12 | |
Jewelweed sprout with water showing that it beads even when young. |
| 13 | |
Stinging needle |
| 14 | |
Stinging needle |
| 15 | |
Garlic mustard sprouts |
| 16 | |
Garlic mustard, second year growth. |
| 17 | |
Ramp (wild leeks) |
| 18 | |
Ramp flower closeup |
| 19 | |
Solomon's seal |
| 20 | |
Field garlic. Use like chives at this time of year. |
| 21 | |
Spring beauty. Only tuber is edible. Not worth the trouble. |
| 22 | |
Spring beauty with very large tuber. |
| 23 | |
Trout lilies. Leaves look like speckled trout. Must be cooked. |
| 24 | |
Trout lily with flower |
| 25 | |
Bloodroot. Endangered or protected. Medicinal, not edible. |
| 26 | |
Curly dock or yellow dock. Leaves good raw or cooked. Not related to burdock. |
| 27 | |
Curly dock root |
| 28 | |
Joe-Pye Weed? At first Wildman thought it was common evening primrose (which has a delicious edible root). But we ended up thinking otherwise. |
| 29 | |
Young violet |
| 30 | |
Skunk cabbage. Poisonous. |
| 31 | |
Dutchman's-Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria). Poisonous. |
| 32 | |
Cuckoo-flower, often called Ragged Robin (Lychnis cuculli). Tastes like wasabi. |
| 33 | |
Common thistle |
| 34 | |
Common thistle. Tap root is edible. |
| 35 | |
Cow parsnip. Peel away hair and use like celery. Usually cook it. |
| 36 | |
Raspberry |
| 37 | |
Wild chervil |
| 38 | |
Star of Bethlehem. Poisonous. |
| 39 | |
Dead frond of ostrich fern |
| 40 | |
Fiddleheads. Okay, but a little early. |
| 41 | |
Fiddleheads |
| 42 | |
False Hellebore. Also called Indian poke. Very poisonous. Kills. |
| 43 | |
Bitter or broad leaf dock. Tastes terrible. (Wildman had already ripped off the other leaf.) |
| 44 | |
Cow parsley |
| 45 | |
Wild ginger. Like commercial, but not related. |
| 46 | |
Wild ginger flower |
| 47 | |
Wild ginger root |
| 48 | |
Wild ginger root |
| 49 | |
Common spice bush |
| 50 | |
Common spice bush flower |
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