Category Archives: All Edible Plants

Online field guide for Wild Edible Plants.

Blackberries

By Wild Edible | Published: September 26, 2009
Blackberries are a widespread, and well-known group of several hundred species, found native throughout the temperate northern hemisphere and South America. Vigorous and growing rapidly in woods, scrub, hillsides and hedgerows, blackberry shrubs tolerate poor soils, readily colonizing wasteland, ditches and vacant lots. It has tall, thorny, arching cane up to 9 feet tall, with [...]
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Persimmon

By Wild Edible | Published: September 26, 2009
Persimmons are a fruit that grows from trees that vary greatly in appearance, and grow wild in some states. They can be used to make jam, jelly, vinegar, beer, tea, a coffee substance and breadstuff. They should be gathered after the first frost when they are completely ripe and very soft. Persimmons can be eaten [...]
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Dandelion

By Wild Edible | Published: September 26, 2009
This plant can be used as a potherb, in salad, and as a coffee substitute. Young leaves can be picked in early spring before the plant has flowered to add to salads, it can also be used in replace of spinach. The leaves should be boiled in two waters to rid bitterness. The roots can [...]
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Acorns

By Wild Edible | Published: September 26, 2009
Acorns are found on oak trees. Oak trees can be identified by the five to eight lobes on each side of their alternate leaves, which turn from yellow to brown in the fall, the bark, which is deeply grooved and grayish in color, and of course, the acorns. Oak trees commonly grow in both hemispheres [...]
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Asparagus

By Wild Edible | Published: September 26, 2009
Asparagus grows in temperate regions throughout the world, often found in fields, old homesteads, backroads, and along fences. In the spring, the Asparagus plant resembles a cluster of green fingers. The mature plant resembles a small tree (roughly 4 feet tall), and has fernlike, wispy foliage and red berries (berries could be poisonous, DON’T EAT). [...]
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Arrowroot

By Wild Edible | Published: September 26, 2009
The arrowroot a plant that thrives in a moist to wet habitat, and is found worldwide in temperate zones and in the tropics. It has arrow-shaped leaves that are approximately 1 foot long and 4 inches wide, few white flowers, and potato-like tubers most often found in mud. The branced stems grow up to 6 [...]
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