1: Amaranth. Can eat leaves in Spring (seeds in Fall). Like spinach. Eat raw or cooked.

2: Poor man's pepper

3: Mica cap mushroom. Turns into black ink. Not poisonous, but not good to eat.

4: Hedge mustard. Good in salads. In season from April to June.

5: Psathyrella mushroom? Not good to eat.

6: Chickweed. My camera can never focus correctly on this!

7: Big field of chickweed.

8: Chickweed flower closeup.

9: White snakeroot. Poisonous.

10: Garlic mustard, first year. Starts to get bitter this time of year. Root is like horseradish.

11: Garlic mustard, second year.

12: Wood sorrel

13: Mugwort. Not eaten, but used as a tonic.

14: Fairy ring mushrooms. Must be cooked. Caps only. Stems too tough.

15: Gout weed.

16: Gout weed with flowers.

17: Gout weed in flower. A field of them.

18: Wild rose, or multi-flora rose. Leaves are edible. In fall rose hips, but have many seeds.

19: Wild rose flower closeup.

20: June berry. Very delicious berries in June.

21: Spring agrocybe, or hard agrocybe. Not good to eat.

22: Red bud bush.

23: Red bud bush, with edible pods. Can eat raw. Cook like snow peas. Flowers also good in April.

24: Common blue violet. Tastes like lettuce.

25: Common spice bush. Has alternating leaves. Leaves only good for tea. Berries in Fall are like allspice.

26: Poison ivy.

27: Greater celandine. Don't eat. Juice used on warts.

28: Greater celandine flower closeup.

29: Plum tree. Plums are in June.

30: Baby painted turtle.

31: Curly dock. Seeds edible. Leaves still edible, though now a little sour.

32: Garlic mustard. Stems now too tough, but bulbs good. Like garlic.

33: Hawthorne tree. Berries in Fall.

34: Hawthorne tree closeup.

35: Mulberry tree. Berries in mid-June to July.

36: Mulberry tree branch closeup.

37: Mulberry tree berry closeup.

38: Buttercup. Poisonous. Possibly Ranunculus bulbosus, commonly known as St Anthony's turnip or bulbous buttercup.

39: Gingko. Nuts in Fall.

40: Steve holding pokeweed. Hard to cook. Root is poisonous.

41: Pokeweed in situ.

42: Grape leaves. Can roll food up in them.

43: Quince. Fruit is ripe in Fall. Sour.

44: Quince flowers.

45: Quince flower closeup.

46: Common nightshade. Poisonous.

47: Lamb's quarters. Good from May to November.

48: Hedge mustard. Very young.

49: Gall. Insects laid eggs in leaves with food supply. Baby insects are inside.

50: Burdock. Now can peel stems and boil for one minute. Very short season for stems.