1: Poorman's pepper. Good for salads.

2: Shepherd's purse.

3: Shepherd's purse flower and stem closeup.

4: Shepherd's purse flower closeup.

5: Hedge mustard. In hand.

6: Hedge mustard.

7: Burdock, second year.

8: Burdock, second year. Starting to peel the stem. The stems can be harvested, though the season is short.

9: Burdock, second year. A peeled stem. To be good needs to be soft and flexible. Then you parboil.

10: Chickweed in situ. Edible year round.

11: Chickweed in hand.

12: Chickweed stem with unopened flowers.

13: Burdock, first year.

14: Burdock, first year. A root broken short.

15: Horse nettle. Poisonous.

16: Burdock, first year. A long root.

17: Garlic mustard, second year. Patch. At this time the second year leaves are better than the first year.

18: Garlic mustard, second year. Single plant.

19: Garlic mustard, second year. Flower on stem closeup.

20: Garlic mustard, second year. Flower closeup.

21: Garlic mustard, first year. These leaves have become bitter now. Better earlier in the season. In October the root is like horseradish. Too small now.

22: White snake root patch. Poisonous.

23: White snake root stem. Poisonous. In hand.

24: White snake root. Poisonous. With garlic mustard around it.

25: Garlic mustard, second year. Nice patch.

26: Field garlic bulbs. Good to eat now.

27: Field garlic. Leaves getting tough now.

28: Star of Bethlehem. Has no onion smell. Note white stripe. Poisonous.

29: Goutweed patch. It spreads by roots and is all over this part of the park.

30: Goutweed flower.

31: Goutweed young leaves. These are the best now.

32: Goutweed stem with flowers.

33: Virginia knotweed.

34: Little brown mushroom. Assumed poisonous.

35: Little brown mushroom. Assumed poisonous.

36: Star of Bethlehem flowers not yet opened. Poisonous.

37: Kentucky coffee tree. Seedpod.

38: Kentucky coffee tree. Seeds.

39: Kentucky coffee tree.

40: Hobblebush.

41: Hobblebush flowers closeup.

42: Black cherry.

43: Yellow wood sorrel. Common blue violet in upper right.

44: Common blue violet. Most flowers now gone.

45: Common blue violet flower. We found a couple.

46: Goutweed flower.

47: Poison ivy.

48: Jewelweed.

49: Yellow water cress. Young. Alternate feather compound leaves. Some red clover leaves in lower left.

50: Yellow water cress. More mature with flowers starting.

51: Yellow water cress. Flower closeup.

52: Prickly ash. The pods are Sichuan pepper (or Szechuan pepper).

53: Prickly ash. Surrounded by goutweed.

54: Tulip tree flower. The nectar in the flowers is tasty. Pull petals open and lick.

55: Bitterdock. Not white underneath leaves.

56: Black locust flower closeup. Tastes like vanilla.

57: Black locust.

58: Pokeweed. This is the time of year for this. There are three things to know. Only the young shoots are edible and only at this time of the year. The roots are poisonous. And there are complicated boiling instructions to follow. You need to look them up.

59: Hedge mustard.

60: Pineapple weed closeup showing flower budding stages.

61: Mugwort.

62: Hedge mustard.

63: Shepherd's purse. Nice patch.

64: Hedge mustard flowers. With mugwort behind.

65: Hedge mustard. Immature.

66: Chickweed with immature hedge mustard mixed in.

67: Bitter dock (broad leaf dock). Note red vein down the middle.

68: Lamb's quarters leaf closeup.

69: Wild lettuce. Too late now.

70: Poorman's pepper. Young leaves.

71: Lamb's quarters.

72: Red clover flower closeup. Partially open. With mugwort behind.

73: Red clover leaves.

74: Red clover flower closeup. Fully open.

75: Pineapple weed patch. With Lamb's quarters and Virginia knotweed mixed in.

76: Black raspberries.

77: Black raspberry flowers.

78: Dryad Saddle Polypore. Now too old and hard.

79: Elderberry.

80: Purple flowering raspberry.

81: Wild raisin flowers.

82: White oak. Acorns have less tannin and need minimal processing.

83: Linden tree. No flowers yet.

84: Immature Juneberries/Serviceberries.

85: Mayapple patch.

86: An immature may apple.

87: Star of Bethlehem flower closeup. Poisonous.

88: Kentucky Coffee Tree, looking up and West.

89: Kentucky Coffee Tree, looking North.

90: Kentucky Coffee Tree, row of young ones alongside East Drive.