posted 3 years ago
I found a few more, but was holding off until I felt a I had enough to warrant another post & kind of forgot about it. Discovered a while back that the east has a native gooseberry, after all- Eastern Prickly, aka Dogberry.
Also:
Canadian Honewort (Eastern US/ Canada)
Trout Lily Bulb (Eastern US)
Virginia Waterleaf (Eastern US)
Water Parsnip (Eastern US- very easy to confuse with invasive Poison Hemlock if looking at flower. Pay more attention to differences in shape of leaves & root instead)
Chinkapin Nuts (Pacific NW)
Epazote (American south, possibly)
Mayhaw (American SE)
Oyster leaf (northern Atlantic coast)
Prairie Parsley (survival food only)
Redroot Seeds ( American SW- only use is additive to make Pinolé)
Thyme Leaved Spurge ( American south, Great Plains)
Wild Parsley Root (Rocky Mins, Great Plains)
With mushrooms, I want to add:
Truffles- American Imaia, Michigan & Pecan
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If a more complete list all in one place helps, (other names for same plant after /, other species in () )we have:
Nuts/ Seeds:
Acorn, American Lotus, Beech, Blow Wife, Bodark/ Osage Orange/ Monkeybrain, Buckeye, California Poppy, Chestnut, Chia, Chinkapin Nuts, Hazelnut/ Filbert, Hickory Nut, Pecan, Pine nut, Quinoa/ Goosefoot, Sunflower, Virginia Sweetspire, Walnut (Butternut)
Spice:
American Lovage, Bergamot, Bayberry (Bog Myrtle), Calamint/ Wild Basil (Wild Savory), Eastern Redbud, Eastern Sweetshrub/ Carolina Allspice, Ginger, Goldenrod, Hyssop, Indian Potato, Juniper Berry, Maple Syrup/ Sugar, Mint (Whorled Mountain, Downy Wood, American, etc), Prairie Tea, Prickly Ash Pepper, Rock Cress, Sage, Saltbush, Sassafras/ Filé, Spicebush berries, Spikenard, Sweet Anise, Tarragon/ Wormwood, Toothwort, Virginia Pepperweed, Wintergreen/ Teaberry/ Checkerberry, Violet petals, Wild Tansymustard, Yampah/ Wild Dill
Vegetable:
American Licorice, American Lotus, Bamboo, Basswood Leaves, Bearberry/ Kinnikinnick/ Manzanita, Biscuit Root/ Kouse, Bitterroot, Black Nightshade, Black Tree Lichen, Brook Lettuce, Buckbean, Buffalo Gourd, Bur Cucumber, Cabbage Palm Heart, Camas, Canadian Honewort, Cattail, Clearweed (Stinging Nettle), Common Milkweed, Cow Parsnip, Creamcup Leaves, Creeping Cucumber, Dandelion, Eastern Redbud, False Solomon's Seal, Fern Fiddleheads (Lady, Cinnamon), German Rampion/ Primrose, Ginger, Greenbriar, Groundcone, Groundplum, Harbinger of Spring Root, Indian Breadroot, Indian Cucumber Root, Indian Potato/ Potato Bean/ Hopniss/ Groundnut, Jack in the Pulpit Root, Jerusalem Artichoke/ Sunchoke, Lake Cress, Lily Root, Marsh Marigold, Miner's Lettuce, Ocotillo, Okra, Oyster leaf, Pine tips, Pokeweed, Prickly Pear Cactus, Pea, Prairie Parsley, Prairie Potato, Purplestem Angelica, Saltbush, Samphire Greens, Seaweed/ Dulse, Shooting Star Root, Shorebay leaf, Skunk Cabbage, Solomon's Seal, Spikenard, Sweetflag, Sweetvetch Root, Thyme-leaved Spurge, Tinpsila, Tockwogh/ Tuckahoe, Triplet Lily Root, Tule, Virginian Dwarf Plantain, Virginia Waterleaf, Wapato/ Duck Potato, Water Horehound/ American Bugleweed/ Gypsywort, Water Parsnip, White Alder Catkins, White Avens, White Chervil, Winter dress/ Yellowrocket, Wood Sorrel, Wild Beans (Wild Kidney, Wild Trailing, Rattlebox, Mesquite), Wild Chili Peppers, Wild Onion (Meadow Garlic, Ramps, Nodding), Wild Sweet Potato/ Morning Glory Root, Yampah, Yucca
Fruit:
Alligator Apple, American Olive, Beautyberry, Black Cherry (Sand Cherry), Black Huckleberry, Black Raspberry (Red Raspberry, Blackberry, Salmonberry, Cloudberry), Blueberry (Western Huckleberry, Sparkleberry), Buffaloberry, Bunchberry, Carolina Buckthorn, Chokeberry/ Aronia, Chokecherry (Pincherry), Cocoplum, Crabapple, Cranberry (Lingonberry), Creek Plum, Crowberry (Rock berry), Currants, Deerberry, Dewberry, Elderberry, Gaylussacia/ Eastern Black Huckleberry, Fairybell Berry, Figs, Goji berry/ Wolf Berry, Gooseberry, Gopher Apple, Hackberry/ Sugarberry, Haw, Hogpeanut (actually not sure what to classify it as), Honeyberry/ Fly Honeysuckle, Magnolia Fruit, Mayapple, Mayhaw, Maypop, Mesae-Verde Cactus Fruit, Mulberry, Oregon Grape, Osoberry, Papaw/ Hillbilly Mango, Partridge berry, Pigeon Plum, Plum, Prickly Pear Cactus, Red Huckleberry, Rowan Berry, Saguaro Cactus Fruit, Salal, Saw Palmetto Berry, Sea Grape, Serviceberry/ Juneberry/ Saskatoon, Sourberry, Strawberry, Strawberry Blite, Texas Persimmon, Tupelo fruit, Viburnum Berry/ Highbush Cranberry/ Mooseberry (American Cranberrybush, Blackhaw, Nannyberry), Virginian Groundcherry, Virginia Persimmon, Wintergreen/ Teaberry/ Checkerberry
Grain:
Buckwheat, Little Barley Pampas Grass, Mountain Rice, Wild Rice
Beverage:
Appalachian Tea/ Inkberry (Yaupon Holly), Bergamot, Bog Rosemary, California Laurel, Eastern Red Columbine, Eastern Redbud, Florida Pennyroyal, Goldenrod, Grape, Honey Locust (Black Locust), Hops, Hoptree/ Wafer Ash, Indian Potato, Kentucky Coffeetree, Leatherleaf Tea, Pine tea/ Nettle beer, Pacific Madrone/ Madrona, Prairie Tea, Senna tea, Sourwood tea, Spicebush tea, Sumac, Wild Rose Rosehips, Yarrow, Yerba Buena