Plants on the Land

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.

Plant Identification facebook

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

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