Edible or Useful Perennial Plants Native to US Southeast?

Hello. I'm planning a list of native perennials to the US Southeast and hotter/more humid regions of North America. This is for a food forest as well as (mixed with native grasses and such) silvopasture system. I learn new species everyday, so please anyone who's knowledgeable feel free to add to this list or make any relevant comments.

Here's my list so far.


Perennial Food and Useful Crops Native to US Southeast


Herbs:


Yaupon Holly


Chives


American Ginseng


Bee Balm


Mountain Mint


Vegetables:


Smilax Rotundifiolia


Duckweed


Stinging Nettle


Hog Peanut


Cow Parsnip)


Duck Potato


American Lotus


Dandelion


Wild Onions/Ramps


Cat-tails


Groundnut


Arrow Arum


Indian Breadroot


Fruits:


Serviceberry


Black Huckleberry


Eastern Prickly Pear


Spicebush


Wild Rose


Passionflower


Hawthorn


Black Cherry


American Plum


Red Mulberry


American Persimmon


Paw-paw


Cranberry


Elderberry


Grapes


Blueberries


Dewberries


Blackberries


Black Raspberries


Red Raspberriesy


Strawberries


Nuts:


White Oak


Hickory


Pecan


Dwarf Chestnut/Chinquapin


Black Walnut


American Beech


American Hazelnut


Multiple Uses:


False Solomon’s Seal


Hercules’ Club


Eastern Teaberry


Birch:


Pine:


Black Locust


Honey Locust:


Sumac


Bamboo


Alder


Sassafras


Tobacco


Maple


Black Willow


Crabapple


Elm


Ash


Mayapple


Naturalized:


Osage Orange


Jerusalem Artichokes


Tiger Nuts

Very good start!

Some other considerations:
Walking onion
Garlic
Tree collards
Beauty berry
Mayhaw
Osage orange
Wild strawberry, mocker/Indian strawberry
Wild lettuce
Wild spinach
Whistles
Broadleaf plantain
Pecan
Daylilly
Rose of Sharon
Mullien
Queen annes lace

Invasives (if already present)
Autumn olive
Kudzu
Porcelain berry

All kinds of herbs/medicinal

My suggestion is hire a local forager for a hundred bucks to walk your land in late spring. The volunteers you learn will pay for it!

Apologies if any were in your list and I overlooked.

chestnut. supposedly 25% of appilacian forest was chestnut prior to 1900. it was a staple for many native cultures for many many generations prior to European invasion

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