| Number | Thumbnail | Caption |
| 1 | |
Group photo of the tour participants. Missing one woman that was hiding, one fellow that didn't want to be in it, and me. |
| 2 | |
Shepard's purse |
| 3 | |
Shepard's purse flower. Note four petals. |
| 4 | |
A more mature shepard's purse. |
| 5 | |
Chickweed |
| 6 | |
Chickweed flower closeup |
| 7 | |
Common blue violet. Can eat leaves and flowers. Root is poisonous. |
| 8 | |
Blue violet flower |
| 9 | |
Gout weed |
| 10 | |
Gout weed closeup |
| 11 | |
Field garlic. Leaves are a little mild this time of year. |
| 12 | |
Star of Bethlehem. Poisonous. Looks somewhat like field garlic, but has no onion smell. |
| 13 | |
Lesser celandine. Edibility unknown. |
| 14 | |
Japanese knotweed. End of season. |
| 15 | |
Hercules club, or devil's walking stick. |
| 16 | |
Red bud. A week too early. |
| 17 | |
Red bud closeup |
| 18 | |
Burdock. Note whire underneath leaves. |
| 19 | |
Burdock burr closeup. Note little hooks. |
| 20 | |
Burdock root |
| 21 | |
Bitter dock. Leaves too bitter to eat. Note red on leaf. |
| 22 | |
Garlic mustard |
| 23 | |
Garlic mustard root. Tastes like horseradish. |
| 24 | |
Common spice bush flower closeup. Too early. |
| 25 | |
Greater celandine. Very poisonous. Has orange sap. In poppy family. |
| 26 | |
Plum tree |
| 27 | |
Parsnips. Only good until the end of April. Then again in fall. |
| 28 | |
Parsnip root |
| 29 | |
Geese nesting |
| 30 | |
Asiatic day lily. Shoots going out of season. |
| 31 | |
Tubers of day lily. A way to identify them. Tubers probably edible, but not worth it. |
| 32 | |
Poor man's pepper |
| 33 | |
Common plantain |
| 34 | |
Curly dock, or called yellow dock (root is yellow). Only in season through May. |
| 35 | |
Hedge mustard |
| 36 | |
Dandelion flower. Edible. |
| 37 | |
Wineberries, or Asian raspberry. |
| 38 | |
Wineberries. Note hairy thorns. |
| 39 | |
Juneberry, or service berry. Berries in season in June. |
| 40 | |
Common primrose stalk from last year. |
| 41 | |
Cattails from last year. |
| 42 | |
Winter cress. Rather bitter. |
| 43 | |
Common primrose leaves |
| 44 | |
Thistle. Root tastes like potato. |
| 45 | |
Wild carrot (Queen Anne's lace) |
| 46 | |
Wild carrot root |
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