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4 images, all text, listing groups of plants based on culinary uses with latin names first.
Image 1:
Edible Native Plants from South East to Mid-Atlantic, zone 7-9 Cooked greens:
Agastache nepetoides, yellow giant hyssop; Agastache scrophulariifolia, giant hyssop; Allium canadense, wild garlic; Allium cernuum, nodding onion; Allium tricoccum, ramps; Aralia racemose, American spikenaard; Boehmeria cylindrica, false nettle; Cirsium horridulum, horrid thistle (you may regret planting this); Krygia spp. native dandelion (many species, check locally); Lactuca canadensis, wild lettuce; Ligusticum canadense, nando; Morus rubra, red mulberry; Oenothera biennis, evening primrose; Onoclea struthiopteris, ostrich fern (purchase from native plant vendor, don't forage bc it's too easy to confuse with toxic species); Passiflora incarnata, maypop; Persicaria virginiana, jumpseed; Phytolacca americana, pokeweed (requires 3 changes of boiling water); Pteridium aquilinum, bracken fern (ppurchase from native plant vendor, don't forage bc it's too easy to confuse with toxic species);
Rudbeckia laciniata, coneflower (summer-fall); Rumex, spp. dock; Taraxacum officinale, dandelion (not native but everywhere); Tradescantia virginiana, spiderwort Smilax, spp. greenbrier (Many species, check locally. Grows aggressively, you might regret planting it.); Vitis rotundifolia, muscadine grape (takes less cooking time than domestic grape leaf);
Fresh greens (can be dried):
Agastache nepetoides, yellow giant hyssop; Agastache scrophulariifolia, giant hyssop; Allium canadense, wild garlic; Allium cernuum, nodding onion; Allium tricoccum; Aralia racemose, American spikenaard; Boehmeria cylindrica, false nettle; Desmodium, spp. (many species, check locally); Krygia spp. native dandelion (many species, check locally); Lamium purpureum, dead-nettle (not actually native but it's everywhere); Oenothera biennis, evening primrose; Pinus spp., Pine (just opened soft seedlings in the spring); Plantago virginia, plantain;
Image 2, more fresh greens:
Portulaca oleracea, purslane; Rudbeckia laciniata, coneflower;(spring); Rumex, spp, dock; Rumex acetosella, sheep's sorrel; Stellaria media, chickweed; Symplocos tinctoria, sweetleaf (tree) ;Taraxacum officinale, (not native but everywhere); Tradescantia virginiana, spiderwort; Trifolium repens, clover (not native but it's everywhere); Viola pedata, bird's foot violet; Viola sororia, common blue violet
Flowers:
Agastache nepetoides, yellow giant hyssop; Agastache scrophulariifolia, giant hyssop; Allium cernuum, nodding onion; Cercis canadensis, redbud; Houstonia caerulea, bluet; Krygia spp. native dandelion (many species, check locally); Lamium purpureum, dead-nettle (not actually native but it's everywhere); Magnolia grandiflora, southern magnolia; Monarda fistulosa, wild bergamot; Oenothera biennis, evening primrose; Rosa spp. wild roses; Taraxacum officinale, dandelion (not native but everywhere); Tradescantia virginiana, spiderwort; Trifolium repens, clover (not native but it's everywhere); Typha spp. cattail (the pollen can be added in batters/flour/dough, young green flower heads can be cooked); Viola pedata, bird's foot violet; Viola sororia, common blue violet.
Fruit shrubs: Amelanchier spp. serviceberry (many different species, check locally); Aralia racemose, American spikenard (tiny berries taste like sweet carrots and chamomile); Aronia melanocarpa, aronia berry; Callicarpa americana, American beautyberry (doesn't taste like much); Opuntia humifusa, eastern prickly pear (does cactus qualify as a shrub?); Physalis grisea, strawberry tomato; Physalis virginiana, ground cherry; Ribes americanum, American black currant (other native currants like album can zone push in the southeast); Rosa palustris or carolina, swamp rose (cultivated varieties don't have good rosehips); Sambucus canadensis, American elderberry; Vaccinium simulatum, upland highbush blueberry; Vaccinium formosum, southern highbush blueberry; Vaccinium fuscatum, black highbush blueberry.
