1: Cornelian cherries. Fruits are all gone now.

2: Lady's thumb. A mild salad green. Flowers also edible, but leaves taste better. In smartweed family.

3: Common plantain. Leaves can be put on mosquito bites.

4: Common plantain seeds. Good for constipation. Can grind up and use as egg replacer.

5: Poor man's pepper

6: Bottlebrush buckeye. Wildman didn't know this one. Identified with help on the web. All parts may cause mild stomach upset if ingested.

7: Fruit from the mystery plant.

8: Lamb's quarters. With spots on leaves.

9: Epazote

10: Stink horn mushroom. Flies land on it and spread the spores.

11: Ringless honey mushroom. Note color. Edible after cooking. Get sick if eaten raw. Very delicious.

12: Virginia knotweed. For kids to play with. Not edible.

13: Amaranth

14: Wood sorrel

15: Burdock, 1st year

16: Burdock root that a tour participant dug up.

17: Burdock, 2nd year

18: Puff ball mushroom covered with mold. Poisonous.

19: Grape leaves. Grapes not ready. Can see a couple green ones behind the leaves.

20: Kousa dogwood. From Japan.

21: Kousa dogwood fruits

22: Chicken mushroom. Two weeks too old.

23: Guilder rose. Very bitter but not poisonous. In viburnum family.

24: Elderberry. So many berries the branches are drooping. Berries are better cooked. Stems poisonous, so you have to pull all the berries off.

25: Virginia creeper. Poisonous.

26: Greater ragweed. Allergenic, not edible.

27: Common ragweed. Allergenic, not edible.

28: Poison ivy

29: Common nightshade. Poisonous.

30: Mugwort

31: Buckeye chestnut. American version of horse chestnut. Poisonous.

32: Small toad

33: Garlic mustard, 2nd year. Seeds are edible.

34: Garlic mustard, 1st year. Leaves are edible in spring and fall.

35: Garlic mustard root. Like horsradish.

36: Sassafras

37: Sassafras root. Boil for tea.

38: Sweet gum. Smells like furniture polish. Not edible.

39: Jewelweed

40: Jewelweed flowers

41: Jewelweed seed pods.

42: Jewelweed seeds. Can eat seeds, but not flowers.

43: Beech tree

44: Beech nut husk

45: Yellow watercress

46: Black walnut. Still early, return in October.

47: Praying mantis. It has a beetle, which you can't see here.

48: Purple flowering raspberry. Didn't fruit well this year.

49: Gout weed and Eve.

50: Hawthorne