posted 12 years ago
The second plant is definitely Aralia nudicaulis (Wild Sarsaparilla), good for food and medicine.
The first seems to be some kind of Elaeagnus species and the third looks like a cornus (dogwood) species, but I'm not 100% sure of the varieties.
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