1: Group photo of the tour participants. Missing one woman that was hiding, one fellow that didn't want to be in it, and me.

2: Shepherd's purse

3: Shepherd's purse flower. Note four petals.

4: A more mature shepherd's purse.

5: Chickweed

6: Chickweed flower closeup

7: Common blue violet. Can eat leaves and flowers. Root is poisonous.

8: Blue violet flower

9: Gout weed

10: Gout weed closeup

11: Field garlic. Leaves are a little mild this time of year.

12: Star of Bethlehem. Poisonous. Looks somewhat like field garlic, but has no onion smell.

13: Lesser celandine. Edibility unknown.

14: Japanese knotweed. End of season.

15: Hercules club, or devil's walking stick.

16: Red bud. A week too early.

17: Red bud closeup

18: Burdock. Note whire underneath leaves.

19: Burdock burr closeup. Note little hooks.

20: Burdock root

21: Bitter dock. Leaves too bitter to eat. Note red on leaf.

22: Garlic mustard

23: Garlic mustard root. Tastes like horseradish.

24: Common spice bush flower closeup. Too early.

25: Greater celandine. Very poisonous. Has orange sap. In poppy family.

26: Plum tree

27: Parsnips. Only good until the end of April. Then again in fall.

28: Parsnip root

29: Geese nesting

30: Asiatic day lily. Shoots going out of season.

31: Tubers of day lily. A way to identify them. Tubers probably edible, but not worth it.

32: Poor man's pepper

33: Common plantain

34: Curly dock, or called yellow dock (root is yellow). Only in season through May.

35: Hedge mustard

36: Dandelion flower. Edible.

37: Wineberries, or Asian raspberry.

38: Wineberries. Note hairy thorns.

39: Juneberry, or service berry. Berries in season in June.

40: Common primrose stalk from last year.

41: Cattails from last year.

42: Winter cress. Rather bitter.

43: Common primrose leaves

44: Thistle. Root tastes like potato.

45: Wild carrot (Queen Anne's lace)

46: Wild carrot root