Wild Edible Plants & Mycology - Species List/Encountered in Class

Hairy Bittercress

Cardamime hirsuta

White Clover

Trifolium repens

Red Clover

Trifolium pratense

Broadleaf Plantain

Plantago major

Buckhorn Plantain

Plantago Lanceloata

Common Dandelion

Taraxacum officinale

Field Garlic

Allium vineale

Wild, American, or Canadian Garlic

Allium canadense

Nodding Onion

Allium cernuum

Indian or False Strawberry

Duchesnea indica

Common Evening Primrose

Oenothera biennis

Wild Carrot/Queen Anne’s Lace

Daucus Carota

*Poison Hemlock

Conium maculatum

*Jimsonweed

Datura stramonium

Tawny Daylily (Ditch Lily)

Hemerocallis fulva

Wintercress

Barbarea vulgaris

Beaked Corn Salad, Mache or Lamb’s Lettuce

Valerianella radiata

Common Chickweed

Stellaria media
“5 “petals” leaves in pairs”
is the diagnostic heading
from Peterson’s

Mouse-ear Chickweed

Cerastium vulgatum

Coltsfoot

Tussilago farfara

Great Angelica

Angelica atropurpurea

Cow-parsnip

Heracleum maximum

Sweet Cicely

Osmorhiza claytoni

Harbinger-of-Spring, Pepper & Salt

Erigenia bulbosa

Spring Cress

Cardamine bulbosa

Purple Cress

Cardamine douglasii

Spring Beauty

Claytonia virginica

*Daffodil NIB POISONOUS

Narcissus spp.

*Lesser Celandine

Ficaria verna

Allegheny Blackberry

Rubus allegheniensis

Black Raspberry

Rubus occidentalis

Black Elderberry

Sambucus canadensis

Wild Plum

Prunus americana

Common Chicory

Cichorium intybus

Reishi Mushroom

Ganoderma sessile

Bare Bottom Sunburst Lichen

Gallowayella weberi

Lemon Lichen

Candelaria concolor

Yellow Jelly Fungus

Tremella mesenterica

Common Powderhorn

Cladonia Coniocraea

British Soldiers Lichen

Cladonia Cristatella

Lyreleaf Sage

Salvia lyrata

Lady’s Bedstraw

Galium verum

Speckled Greenshield Lichen

Flavopunctelia flaventior

Violet Toothed Polypore

Trichaptum biforme

Honey Fungus

Armillaria mellea

Brittle Cinder

Kretzschmaria deusta

A Tree Liverwort

Whitewash Lichen

Phlyctis argena

Destroying Angel

Amanita bisporgera

Mycorrhizal

Deadly Galerina

Galerina marginata

Saprophyte

False Caeser’s Amanita/False Fly Agaric

Amanita parcivolvata

Mycorrhizal

Ceaser’s Mushroom

Amanita jacksonii

Mycorrhizal

Fly Agaric

Amanita muscaria

Mycorrhizal

Jack-O-Lantern Mushroom

Omphalotus illudens

Saprophyte

Ramps

Allium tricoccum

Mayapple

Podophyllum peltatum

Cutleaf Toothwort

Cardamine concatenata

Chicken-Of-The-Woods

Laetiporus sulphereus

Smooth Chanterelle

Chantherellus lateritus

Bradley or Voluminous Milky

Lactifluus volemus

Mycorrhizal

Oyster Mushroom

Pleurotus ostreatus

Saprophyte

Eastern Cauliflower Mushroom

Sparassis spathulata

Hen-Of-The-Woods

Grifola frondose

Weak parasite, then saprophytic

Shrimp-Of-The-Woods

Entoloma abortivum

Parasite of Parasitic Honey Mushrooms

Gem-Studded Puffball

Lycoperdon perlatum

Pear Shaped Puffball

Apioperdon pyriforme

Giant Puffball

Calvatia gigantea

Cutleaf Coneflower

Rudbeckia laciniata

Hog Peanut

Amphicarpaea bracteata

Curly Dock

Rumex Crispus

Yellow Wood Sorrel

Oxalis stricta

Common Blue Violet

Viola papilionacea/sororia

Crested Iris

Iris cristata

Black Morel

Morchella angusticeps

Scarlet Elfin Cup

Sarcoscypha austriaca

Devil’s Urn

Urnula criterium

Dixie Reindeer Lichen

Cladonia rangiferina