Getting to know the plants in our life, in our yards, locals, walks. Ah ! It is a pleasure and something we can do!!
Over the years of relating to this land lots of plants have been identified. I’ve wanted to know every plant ! I do know a lot of them now, and continue to deepen my understanding and meet new plants often ! In 2020 I have spent more time than ever in my life foraging, learning, appreciating plants. Thanking them for their vitality and qualities ! Here is a list of plants I’m aware of to date ! At some point I hope to add the latin names which makes the identification specific and clear
Here are a few websites on foraging and plants you might enjoy along the way.
Learn to Identify Plants by Families
jim mcdonald;s website Resources and online classes (and live classes, usually) !
Samuel Thayers books
Plants on the Strawbale Studio land ~ Updated 4/26/2020
Acorn (Oak trees)
Ajuga (Bugle, common)
Amaranth, Pigweed
Apple Trees
Arugula* (rocket, roquette, rucola)
Aster
Autumn Olive
Avens
Bee Balm monarda didyma
Birch Trees
Birds’ Foot Trefoil
Black Berry
Black Cherry Trees
Black Currant
Black Eyed Susan
Bleeding Heart
Blood Root
Blueberry
Blue Vervain
Bouncing Bet, (Soap Wort)
Burdock
Butterfly Weed
Cardinal Flower
Cat Nip
Cattail
Chickweed
Chives, cultivated and wild.
Cilantro
Cinquefoil
Cleavers
Clover (Red, others)
Coltsfoot
Comfrey
Common Mallow
Culvers Root
Dandelion
Day Lilly
Dock (Curly/Yellow & Broad Leaf)
Dogbane (for cording ~ not edible)
Echinacea (Purple Cone flower)
Elderberry
Evening Primrose
False Indigo
Fern, Ostrich fiddleheads
Fern, Maidenhair
Garlic
Garlic Mustard
Geranium (scented, wild)
Goldenrod
Gooseberry
Gray Dogwood
Ground Cherry
Ground Ivy
Hawk Weed
Hawthorne tree (eastern red cedar
disease)
Heal All
Hazel Nut tree
Hen & Chicks sedum
Honeysuckle
Hops
Horseradish
Horsetail
Iris (Siberian – don’t eat)
Iron Gall
Iron Wood Trees
Jack in the Pulpit
Jerusalem Artichoke (Sun Root)
Lamb’s Quarters
Lemon Balm
Lilly of the Valley – poison to goats
Live Forever, Orpine,, sedum
Lilly of the Valley
Lovage
Lungwort
Mallows (Common /
Rose of Sharon)
Marsh Marigold
May Apple
Mints
Mushrooms, edible;
Dryad’s Saddle
(Pheasant Back,
Hawks Wing)
Garden Giant *
Hen of the Woods
Morel Mushrooms
Puff Ball (neighbors)
Sulfur Shelf (Chicken of the
Woods)
Shitake *
Turkey Tail
Winter, Velvet Foot
Mother Wort
Myrtle
Mullein
Nettles (Stinging)
Onion (Nodding/
Egyptian/Walking)
Oregano
Ox Eye Daisy
Parsley
Pear Tree
Peony
Peppergrass
Pinks
Plantain (broad leaf, narrow leaf)
Poison Ivy (don’t eat, or touch !)
Polk Weed
Prickly Pear
Puff ball
Purple Cone Flower
Purslane
“Queen Anne’s Lace
(Wild Carrot)
Ragweed
Raspberry (red and black)
Rhubarb
Russian Sage
Sage
Sedum – Hen and Chicks, Live
Forever
Self Heal
Service Berry (June Berry)
Solomon Seal
Speedwell (Veronica)
Spotted Knapweed
Sorrel, (known as sheep,
mountain, horse, field and cow
sorrel, or sour dock)
Striped Squill
St. John’s Wort
Sumac, Staghorn
Sweet Annie
Sow Thistle
Tamarack
Tansy
Thimble Weed Berry
Thistle
Thyme
Tomatillo
Trees: Maple, Oak, Apple, Service
Berry, Sassafras, Mulberry, Pear,
Tamarac, Pine Trees,(white,
Korean Pine Nut, other) Hazel Nut,
Willow, Black Locust, more.
Vines (Asian Bittersweet, Virginia
Creeper, Grape, Poison Ivy)
Violets
Wild Bergamot
Wild Chives
Wild Garlic
Wild Grape
Wild Lettuce
Wild Mustards
Wild Strawberries
Witch Hazel
Wintergreen
Winter Cress
Wood Sorrel
Yarrow