Edible native plants
Native fruits, nuts, greens, and roots with a documented history of food use — a productive garden that also happens to be habitat. Read the record before you eat anything: "edible" here can mean one part of the plant at one stage, and often means it needs cooking or leaching first. Confirm the identification independently, and be certain about lookalikes.
Bedfellow lists 726 of these.
The 30 most-observed are listed here — see all 726 in search.
- Red Maple (Acer rubrum)
- Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
- Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
- Pin Oak (Quercus palustris)
- Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- Creosote Bush (Larrea tridentata)
- Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)
- Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
- Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)
- Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica)
- False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosum)
- Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
- American Beech (Fagus grandifolia)
- Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus)
- Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum)
- Sweet Gum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
- California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
- Boxelder (Acer negundo)
- Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
- Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
- Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
- Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
- American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
- Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra)
- Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)
- Black Cherry (Prunus serotina)
- Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
- Canada Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
- Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens)