1: Burdock

2: Burdock root

3: Mountain watercress

4: Mountain watercress with flower

5: Mountain watercress flower closeup

6: Orpine

7: Stand of knotweed stalks from last year

8: Knotweed sprouts. Only good for another week or so.

9: Day lilies

10: Day lily closeup

11: Jewelweed sprouts. Medicinal, not edible.

12: Jewelweed sprout with water showing that it beads even when young.

13: Stinging needle

14: Stinging needle

15: Garlic mustard sprouts

16: Garlic mustard, second year growth.

17: Ramp (wild leeks)

18: Ramp flower closeup

19: Solomon's seal

20: Field garlic. Use like chives at this time of year.

21: Spring beauty. Only tuber is edible. Not worth the trouble.

22: Spring beauty with very large tuber.

23: Trout lilies. Leaves look like speckled trout. Must be cooked.

24: Trout lily with flower

25: Bloodroot. Endangered or protected. Medicinal, not edible.

26: Curly dock or yellow dock. Leaves good raw or cooked. Not related to burdock.

27: Curly dock root

28: Joe-Pye Weed? At first Wildman thought it was common evening primrose (which has a delicious edible root). But we ended up thinking otherwise.

29: Young violet

30: Skunk cabbage. On the tour I believe Wildman stated they were poisonous. In the Peterson's Guide they are listed as edible. The catch is the calcium oxalate crystals cause an intense burning sensation in the mouth. Only thorough drying removes this.

31: Dutchman's-Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria). Poisonous.

32: Cuckoo-flower, often called Ragged Robin (Lychnis cuculli). Tastes like wasabi.

33: Common thistle

34: Common thistle. Tap root is edible.

35: Cow parsnip. Peel away hair and use like celery. Usually cook it.

36: Raspberry

37: Wild chervil

38: Star of Bethlehem. Poisonous.

39: Dead frond of ostrich plume fern. Only edible when 6" or shorter.

40: Fiddleheads of ostrich plume fern. Okay, but a little early.

41: Fiddleheads of ostrich plume fern.

42: False Hellebore. Also called Indian poke. Very poisonous. Kills.

43: Bitter or broad leaf dock. Tastes terrible. (Wildman had already ripped off the other leaf.)

44: Cow parsley

45: Wild ginger. Like commercial, but not related.

46: Wild ginger flower

47: Wild ginger root

48: Wild ginger root

49: Common spice bush

50: Common spice bush flower