Latin Name | Common Name | Edibility Rating | Medicinal Rating |
Abelmoschus esculentus | Okra | 4 | 3 |
Abutilon theophrasti | China Jute, Velvetleaf, Butterprint Buttonweed Jute, China Mallow, Indian Velvet Leaf | 3 | 2 |
Acer crataegifolium | Hawthorn-Leaved Maple | 0 | 0 |
Actinidia chinensis | Kiwi | 4 | 2 |
Actinidia deliciosa | Kiwi Fruit | 5 | 1 |
Agave americana | Agave, American century plant | 3 | 3 |
Agave parryi | Century Plant, Parry's agave, Mescal | 3 | 1 |
Agave utahensis discreta | Century Plant | 3 | 1 |
Agave utahensis eborispina | Century Plant | 3 | 1 |
Alcea rosea | Hollyhock | 3 | 2 |
Ammophila arenaria | Marram Grass, European beachgrass | 1 | 0 |
Ampelodesmos mauritanicus | Mauritanian grass | 0 | 0 |
Aphananthe aspera | | 1 | 0 |
Arctium minus | Lesser Burdock | 3 | 5 |
Artemisia tridentata | Sage Brush, Big sagebrush, Bonneville big sagebrush | 3 | 2 |
Arundo donax | Giant Reed, Giant Reed Grass | 3 | 2 |
Asclepias hallii | Purple Silkweed, Hall's milkweed | 3 | 1 |
Asclepias purpurascens | Purple Milkweed | 2 | 1 |
Asclepias speciosa | Showy Milkweed | 3 | 2 |
Avena abyssinica | Abyssinian Oat | 2 | 0 |
Avena barbata | Slender Oat | 2 | 0 |
Avena brevis | | 2 | 0 |
Avena byzantina | Red Oat | 2 | 0 |
Avena fatua | Wild Oats | 2 | 1 |
Avena ludoviciana | Oats | 2 | 0 |
Avena nuda | Naked Oat | 4 | 0 |
Avena nudibrevis | | 2 | 0 |
Avena orientalis | Hungarian Oat | 3 | 1 |
Avena sativa | Oats, Common oat | 3 | 3 |
Avena sterilis | Sterile Oats, Animated oat | 3 | 0 |
Avena strigosa | Bristle Oats, Black oats | 2 | 0 |
Avena wiestii | | 2 | 0 |
Bambusa multiplex | Hedge Bamboo, Chinese Goddess Bamboo | 2 | 0 |
Betula alnoides | | 2 | 1 |
Betula papyrifera | Paper Birch, Mountain paper birch, Kenai birch | 3 | 2 |
Betula pendula | Silver Birch, European white birch, Common Birch, Warty Birch, European White Birch | 3 | 3 |
Betula pubescens | White Birch, Downy birch | 3 | 3 |
Betula utilis | Indian Paper Birch, Whitebarked Himilayan Birch, Jacquemontii Birch | 0 | 2 |
Boehmeria nivea | Ramie, Chinese Grass, Chinese Silk Plant | 2 | 2 |
Broussonetia papyrifera | Paper Mulberry | 4 | 2 |
Canna indica | Indian Shot | 4 | 2 |
Cannabis sativa | Hemp, Marijuana | 4 | 4 |
Carduus nutans | Musk Thistle, Nodding plumeless thistle | 2 | 2 |
Cirsium vulgare | Common Thistle, Bull thistle, Dodder, Boar Thistle, Bull Thistle | 2 | 1 |
Corchorus capsularis | Jute | 3 | 2 |
Cordyline australis | Cabbage Tree | 3 | 0 |
Cortaderia selloana | Pampas Grass | 0 | 0 |
Corylus cornuta californica | California Hazel | 3 | 0 |
Cyperus longus | Galingale | 2 | 1 |
Cytisus scoparius | Broom, Scotch broom, Common Broom | 1 | 3 |
Daphne bholua | | 0 | 1 |
Daphne involucrata | | 0 | 0 |
Daphne papyracea | | 0 | 1 |
Daphne pseudomezereum | | 0 | 0 |
Dichelachne crinita | Plume Grass, Clovenfoot plumegrass | 0 | 0 |
Digitaria sanguinalis | Crab Grass, Hairy crabgrass | 2 | 1 |
Dirca occidentalis | Leather Wood, Western leatherwood | 0 | 0 |
Dirca palustris | Leather Wood, Eastern leatherwood | 0 | 2 |
Edgeworthia chrysantha | Oriental paperbush | 0 | 1 |
Edgeworthia gardneri | Nepalese Paper Bush | 0 | 0 |
Edgeworthia papyrifera | Paperbush, Oriental Paperbush | 1 | 0 |
Eleusine indica | Wire Grass, Indian goosegrass, Yard Grass, Goose Grass | 3 | 1 |
Equisetum arvense | Field Horsetail | 2 | 3 |
Equisetum hyemale | Dutch Rush, Scouringrush horsetail, Horsetail, Scouring Rush, Rough Horsetail | 2 | 2 |
Eriophorum angustifolium | Cotton Grass, Tall cottongrass | 2 | 1 |
Eriophorum gracile | Cotton Grass, Slender cottongrass | 2 | 0 |
Glycine max | Soya Bean | 4 | 2 |
Grewia oppositifolia | | 2 | 0 |
Hedychium coronarium | Butterfly Ginger, White garland-lily, Garland Flower, Butterfly Lily | 2 | 2 |
Helianthus annuus | Sunflower, Common sunflower | 5 | 2 |
Hordeum bulbosum | Bulbous Barley | 2 | 0 |
Hordeum deficiens | | 3 | 0 |
Hordeum distichon | Two-Rowed Barley | 4 | 3 |
Hordeum hexastichon | Six-Row Barley, Common barley | 3 | 0 |
Hordeum intermedium | | 2 | 0 |
Hordeum trifurcatum | Egyptian Barley | 2 | 0 |
Hordeum vulgare | Barley, Common barley | 4 | 3 |
Hordeum zeocriton | Sprat Barley | 2 | 0 |
Humulus lupulus | Hop, Common hop, European Hop, | 4 | 5 |
Hydrangea anomala | Hydrangea | 3 | 1 |
Hydrangea paniculata | Panicled hydrangea, Hybrid Hydrangea, PeeGee Hydrangea, Panicle Hydrangea | 1 | 2 |
Imperata cylindrica | Cogongrass, Japanese Blood Grass | 3 | 3 |
Iris douglasiana | Mountain Iris, Douglas iris | 0 | 0 |
Iris macrosiphon | Bowltube Iris | 0 | 1 |
Iris purdyi | Purdy's Iris | 0 | 0 |
Jubaea chilensis | Chilean Wine Palm, Chile cocopalm | 3 | 0 |
Juncus effusus | Soft Rush, Common rush, Lamp rush, Pacific rush | 1 | 2 |
Linum perenne | Perennial Flax, Blue flax, Alpine flax | 3 | 2 |
Medicago sativa | Alfalfa, Yellow alfalfa | 4 | 3 |
Phormium tenax | New Zealand Flax, Coastal Flax, New Zealand Hemp | 2 | 0 |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed, American common reed, Hybrid common reed, European common reed, Subtropical common re | 5 | 2 |
Phyllostachys aurea | Golden Bamboo, Fishpole Bamboo | 5 | 0 |
Pueraria montana lobata | Kudzu Vine | 4 | 5 |
Rubus idaeus | Raspberry, American red raspberry, Grayleaf red raspberry | 5 | 3 |
Salix alba | White Willow | 1 | 3 |
Salix alba vitellina | Golden Willow | 1 | 3 |
Salix nigra | Black Willow | 1 | 3 |
Scirpus acutus | Hard Stem Bulrush | 3 | 1 |
Scirpus lacustris | Bulrush | 3 | 1 |
Sequoia sempervirens | Coastal Redwood, Redwood, California Redwood, Coast Redwood | 0 | 1 |
Stellera chamaejasme | | 0 | 1 |
Stipa splendens | Chee Grass | 0 | 0 |
Stipa tenacissima | Esparto Grass, Esparto | 0 | 0 |
Tetrapanax papyrifer | Rice Paper Plant, Chinese Rice Paper Plant | 1 | 1 |
Thuja plicata | Western Red Cedar, Giant Arborvitae, Giant Cedar, Incense Cedar, Western Red Cedar | 1 | 2 |
Tilia cordata | Small Leaved Lime, Littleleaf linden | 5 | 3 |
Tilia platyphyllos | Large Leaved Lime, Largeleaf linden, Bigleaf Linden | 5 | 3 |
Tilia x europaea | Linden, Common Lime | 5 | 3 |
Triticum aestivum | Bread Wheat, Common wheat | 4 | 2 |
Triticum aestivum compactum | Club Wheat | 2 | 0 |
Triticum aestivum macha | Makha Wheat | 2 | 0 |
Triticum aestivum spelta | Spelt Wheat | 4 | 0 |
Triticum aestivum sphaerococcum | Shot Wheat | 2 | 0 |
Triticum bicorne | | 2 | 0 |
Triticum georgicum | | 2 | 0 |
Triticum monococcum | Einkorn | 3 | 0 |
Triticum monococcum aegilopoides | Wild Einkorn | 2 | 0 |
Triticum sovieticum | | 2 | 0 |
Triticum timopheevii | Sanduri, Timopheev's wheat | 2 | 0 |
Triticum turgidum | Rivet Wheat | 4 | 0 |
Triticum turgidum carthlicum | Persian Wheat | 2 | 0 |
Triticum turgidum dicoccoides | Wild Emmer | 2 | 0 |
Triticum turgidum dicoccon | Emmer | 3 | 0 |
Triticum turgidum durum | Durum Wheat | 3 | 0 |
Triticum turgidum polonicum | Polish Wheat | 3 | 0 |
Triticum turgidum turanicum | Khurasan Wheat | 2 | 0 |
Triticum vavilovi | Vavilov's Wheat | 2 | 0 |
Typha angustifolia | Small Reed Mace, Narrowleaf cattail | 5 | 3 |
Typha bungeana | | 4 | 3 |
Typha davidiana | | 4 | 3 |
Typha domingensis | Southern Cattail | 4 | 3 |
Typha glauca | Hybrid cattail | 4 | 0 |
Typha latifolia | Reedmace, Broadleaf cattail, Bullrush, Nailrod | 5 | 3 |
Typha laxmannii | | 4 | 1 |
Typha orientalis | Broadleaf Cumbungi | 4 | 3 |
Ulmus americana | American Elm, Gray Elm, Water Elm | 2 | 2 |
Urtica lyallii | Stinging Nettle | 3 | 3 |
Wikstroemia japonica | | 0 | 0 |
Wikstroemia sikokiana | | 0 | 0 |
Wisteria sinensis | Chinese Wisteria | 1 | 1 |
Yucca filamentosa | Spoonleaf Yucca, Adam's needle, Desert Candle, Needle Palm, St. Peter's Palm, Spanish Bayonet, Comm | 3 | 1 |
Zea mays | Sweet Corn, Corn | 5 | 3 |
Agave sisalana | Sisal | 2 | 2 |
Albizia procera | White Siris, Tall Albizia, Forest Siris | 1 | 2 |
Aleurites moluccanus | Candle Nut, Country Walnut | 3 | 3 |
Antidesma bunius | Bignay, Bignai | 4 | 2 |
Areca catechu | Betel Palm, Betel Nut Palm | 3 | 3 |
Arenga pinnata | Solitary Sugar Palm | 4 | 1 |
Bactris gasipaes | Peach Palm, Pupunha | 5 | 2 |
Bambusa bambos | Giant Thorny Bamboo | 3 | 3 |
Bambusa blumeana | Spiny Bamboo. Spiny bamboo, Thorny bamboo | 2 | 0 |
Bambusa nutans | Nodding Bamboo, Mai bong | 2 | 0 |
Bambusa oldhamii | Ryoku-Chiku, Giant Timber Bamboo, Oldham's Bamboo | 2 | 0 |
Bambusa tulda | Bengal Bamboo. Spineless Indian bamboo | 2 | 0 |
Bambusa vulgaris | Common Bamboo | 3 | 2 |
Borassus flabellifer | Palmyra Palm | 4 | 2 |
Bromelia serra | Bayonet bromeliad | 1 | 0 |
Brosimum parinarioides | Leite de amapa, Brosimum | 3 | 2 |
Brosimum utile | Cow Tree, Palo De Vaca | 3 | 2 |
Calliandra calothyrsus | Red Calliandra, Powderpuff, Kaliandra | 0 | 0 |
Casuarina equisetifolia | She Oak, Common Ru, Australian Pine, Horsetail Casuarina | 1 | 2 |
Cecropia peltata | Trumpet Tree, Snakewood, Congo pump, Wild pawpaw, Pop-a-gun | 3 | 3 |
Ceiba pentandra | Kapok Tree, Cotton Tree, Suma'ma | 3 | 3 |
Cephalostachyum pergracile | Tinwa Bamboo | 3 | 0 |
Chrysophyllum cainito | Star Apple, Caimito | 4 | 2 |
Chrysopogon zizanioides | Vetiver, Vetiver Root, Khus Khus | 2 | 2 |
Crotalaria juncea | Sun Hemp | 1 | 1 |
Dendrocalamus asper | Giant Bamboo, Dragon bamboo, Sweet bamboo | 4 | 0 |
Dendrocalamus giganteus | Giant Bamboo, Bhalu bans, Dhungre bans | 2 | 1 |
Dendrocalamus hamiltonii | Tama Bamboo. Tufted bamboo | 3 | 0 |
Dendrocalamus latiflorus | Sweet Bamboo, Sweet bamboo shoot, Taiwan giant bamboo | 4 | 0 |
Dendrocalamus membranaceus | White bamboo | 3 | 0 |
Dendrocalamus strictus | Male Bamboo. Calcutta Stricta or Bamboo | 3 | 1 |
Elaeis guineensis | African Oil Palm | 5 | 2 |
Enterolobium cyclocarpum | Devil's Ear. Earpod tree | 2 | 2 |
Falcataria moluccana | Batai | 0 | 0 |
Ficus racemosa | Cluster Fig | 3 | 2 |
Gigantochloa albociliata | Clumping bamboo | 3 | 0 |
Gnetum gnemon | Jointfir, Melinjo, Meninjau | 3 | 1 |
Guadua angustifolia | Clumping Bamboo. Guadua | 0 | 0 |
Hibiscus cannabinus | Kenaf, Brown Indianhemp | 4 | 2 |
Irvingia gabonensis | Dika Nut | 4 | 3 |
Leucaena leucocephala | Leucaena, Lead Tree, White Tamarind | 3 | 2 |
Mauritia flexuosa | Buriti Palm, Aguaje Palm | 4 | 2 |
Melocanna baccifera | Berry Bamboo. Mali bamboo | 3 | 2 |
Metroxylon sagu | Sago Palm | 4 | 0 |
Moringa stenopetala | African horseradish tree, cabbagetree | 4 | 3 |
Muntingia calabura | Calabura, Panama berry, Capulin | 3 | 2 |
Musa acuminata | Dwarf Banana, Edible banana | 5 | 2 |
Musanga cecropioides | Corkwood | 3 | 4 |
Neolamarckia cadamba | Amboina, Kadam | 1 | 2 |
Pachira insignis | Malabar Chestnut | 4 | 0 |
Pinus caribaea | Caribbean Pine. Caribbean pitch pine | 2 | 2 |
Pongamia pinnata | Pongam, Karum Tree, Poonga-Oil Tree, Indian Beech | 0 | 3 |
Prosopis juliflora | Mesquite, Honey Mesquite | 3 | 2 |
Pueraria montana | Kudzu Vine | 4 | 5 |
Raphia hookeri | Ivory Coast Raffia Palm | 3 | 2 |
Ricinodendron heudelotii | Manketti nut, Zambezi almond, African oil-nut-tree | 3 | 3 |
Saccharum officinarum | Sugarcane, Purple Sugar Cane | 4 | 2 |
Sesbania bispinosa | Prickly Sesban | 2 | 2 |
Sesbania grandiflora | Vegetable Hummingbird, Agati, | 3 | 2 |
Spondias mombin | Yellow Mombin, Hog Plum, Caja Fruit, Taperebá | 4 | 2 |
Spondias purpurea | Purple Mombin Red Mombin, Spanish Plum, Ciruela | 4 | 2 |
Spondias tuberosa | Imbu, Umbú, Brazil Plum | 4 | 0 |
Talipariti tiliaceum | Beach Hibiscus, Sea Hibiscus, Cottontree, Mahoe | 3 | 2 |
Theobroma cacao | Cacao, Cocoa Tree | 5 | 3 |
Thyrsostachys siamensis | Monastery Bamboo | 4 | 0 |
Treculia africana | African Breadfruit or Breadnut | 4 | 2 |
Triplochiton scleroxylon | Arere, Obeche, Samba | 2 | 2 |
Typha elephantina | Bora. Elephant grass, Indian reed-mace. | 3 | 3 |
Vachellia nilotica | Gum Arabic Tree | 2 | 2 |
Vernicia montana | Abrasin oil tree | 0 | 3 |
Coffea arabica | Coffee Arabica | 3 | 3 |
Aquilaria crassna | Agar Wood, Agarwood | 0 | 3 |
Calotropis procera | Auricula Tree, Dead Sea Apple, Sodom Apple | 1 | 3 |
Carapa guianensis | Andiroba | 0 | 4 |
Costus afer | Spiral Ginger, Ginger lily, White spiral costus. | 2 | 4 |
Erythrina verna | Mulungu | 0 | 4 |
Eucalyptus grandis | Flooded Gum, Gum, Rose Eucalyptus | 0 | 2 |
Gmelina arborea | Gmelina, Snapdragon, White Teak | 2 | 2 |
Gossypium herbaceum | Levant cotton | 3 | 3 |
Lantana camara | Wild Sage, Lantana Verbena | 2 | 4 |
Leplaea cedrata | Scented Guarea | 0 | 2 |
Leplaea thompsonii | Black Guarea | 0 | 2 |
Musa textilis | Abaca | 0 | 0 |
Ochroma pyramidale | Balsa Wood | 0 | 2 |
Oryza sativa | Rice, Common Rice | 5 | 2 |
Podocarpus neriifolius | Oleander Podocarp, Brown Pine | 2 | 2 |
Pouteria altissima | Abam, Apotro, Gomu | 0 | 0 |
Pouteria pierrei | Aningeria | 2 | 0 |
Terminalia superba | Shinglewood | 0 | 2 |
Trema orientalis | Charcoal Tree | 1 | 2 |
Urera baccifera | Nettle Tree, Chichaste, Ortiga | 0 | 2 |