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Foraging - Edible Plants/Mushrooms

Edible plants and mushrooms. I am based in Illinois so this guide will reflect that. Be careful when foraging and never eat anything you are unsure about. Some of the things on this list must be cooked (such as pokeweed), while others can be eaten raw. Some have poisonous berries but edible ...more ↓

black locust 1
Robinia pseudoacacia
chicken of the woods 2
Laetiporus sulphureus
Canada wild lettuce 3
Lactuca canadensis
cutleaf coneflower 4
Rudbeckia laciniata
creeping thistle 5
Cirsium arvense
common milkweed 6
Asclepias syriaca
Glade Mallow 7
Napaea dioica
Great St. John's Wort 8
Hypericum ascyron
curled dock 9
Rumex crispus
meadow salsify 10
Tragopogon pratensis
common cowparsnip 11
Heracleum maximum
white morel 12
Morchella americana
black morel 13
Morchella angusticeps
American pokeweed 14
Phytolacca americana
common blue violet 15
Viola sororia
wild parsnip 16
Pastinaca sativa
black raspberry 17
Rubus occidentalis
nipplewort 18
Lapsana communis
Pennsylvania Blackberry 19
Rubus pensilvanicus
Allegheny blackberry 20
Rubus allegheniensis
American vetch 21
Vicia americana
nannyberry 22
Viburnum lentago
false mermaidweed 23
Floerkea proserpinacoides
American lotus 24
Nelumbo lutea
southern dewberry 25
Rubus trivialis
Common Dewberry 26
Rubus flagellaris
small white leek 3
Allium tricoccum
Canadian Meadow garlic 27
Allium canadense
breadroot scurf pea 28
Pediomelum esculentum
wood nettle 29
Laportea canadensis
Common Yarrow 30
Achillea millefolium
honewort 3
Cryptotaenia canadensis
apple 31
Malus domestica
wild carrot 32
Daucus carota
bitter wintercress 33
Barbarea vulgaris
False London-rocket 34
Sisymbrium loeselii
common dandelion 35
Taraxacum officinale
box elder 36
Acer negundo
red maple 37
Acer rubrum
Swamp Saxifrage 32
Micranthes pensylvanica
silver maple 38
Acer saccharinum
sugar maple 39
Acer saccharum
Freeman's Maple 40
Acer × freemanii
sugar hackberry 41
Celtis laevigata
southern sugar maple 42
Acer floridanum
farkleberry 43
Vaccinium arboreum
Blue Ridge blueberry 44
Vaccinium pallidum
common hackberry 45
Celtis occidentalis
smooth Solomon's seal 46
Polygonatum biflorum
violet woodsorrel 47
Oxalis violacea
common bracken 48
Pteridium aquilinum
Ground-plum 49
Astragalus crassicarpus
wild bergamot 50
Monarda fistulosa
lady fern 51
Athyrium filix-femina
ostrich fern 52
Matteuccia struthiopteris
bird's foot violet 53
Viola pedata
wild garlic 54
Allium vineale
Virginia mountain mint 55
Pycnanthemum virginianum
fringed poppymallow
Callirhoe digitata
Virginia waterleaf 3
Hydrophyllum virginianum
great waterleaf 56
Hydrophyllum appendiculatum
Jerusalem artichoke 57
Helianthus tuberosus
red columbine 58
Aquilegia canadensis
Texas Paintbrush 59
Castilleja indivisa
little barley 60
Hordeum pusillum
oxeye daisy 61
Leucanthemum vulgare
bigfruit evening primrose 62
Oenothera macrocarpa
American black elderberry 63
Sambucus canadensis
staghorn sumac 64
Rhus typhina
bulbous cress 65
Cardamine bulbosa
blue phlox 66
Phlox divaricata
catchweed bedstraw 67
Galium aparine
Virginia spring beauty 68
Claytonia virginica
Purple Phacelia 69
Phacelia bipinnatifida
eastern black walnut 70
Juglans nigra
dame's rocket 71
Hesperis matronalis
thicket parsley 7
Perideridia americana
bristle thistle 72
Cirsium horridulum
broadleaf arrowhead 58
Sagittaria latifolia
northern wild rice 73
Zizania palustris
shagbark hickory 74
Carya ovata
seaside pea 75
Lathyrus japonicus
Red Chanterelle 76
Cantharellus cinnabarinus
roundleaf greenbrier 77
Smilax rotundifolia
Mermaid's Tresses 78
Chorda filum
Smooth Chanterelle 13
Cantharellus lateritius
Virginia strawberry 79
Fragaria virginiana
red mulberry 80
Morus rubra
fuchsias 81
Fuchsia
common serviceberry 82
Amelanchier arborea
white mulberry 83
Morus alba
common yucca 84
Yucca filamentosa
pineapple-weed 85
Matricaria discoidea
sweet crabapple 86
Malus coronaria
Siberian crabapple 87
Malus baccata
Weak-leaf Yucca 6
Yucca flaccida
Asparagus 88
honeysuckles
Lonicera
Jelly Ear 89
Auricularia auricula-judae
Dryad's Saddle 90
Cerioporus squamosus

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