Latin Name | Common Name | Edibility Rating | Medicinal Rating |
Abies concolor | Colorado Fir, White fir | 0 | 2 |
Abies procera | Noble Fir | 0 | 1 |
Acer pensylvanicum | Moosewood, Striped maple, Moosewood, Pennsylvania Maple | 0 | 1 |
Adiantum pedatum | Northern Maidenhair,American Maidenhair Fern | 0 | 2 |
Agastache foeniculum | Anise Hyssop, Blue giant hyssop | 5 | 1 |
Andromeda polifolia | Marsh Andromeda, Bog rosemary | 2 | 1 |
Aplectrum hyemale | Putty Root, Adam and eve | 0 | 1 |
Arachis hypogaea | Peanut | 4 | 2 |
Aralia nudicaulis | Wild Sarsaparilla | 4 | 3 |
Ardisia crispa | | 1 | 1 |
Aristolochia kaempferi | | 0 | 2 |
Aristolochia rotunda | Snakeroot | 0 | 2 |
Asplenium adiantum-nigrum | Black Spleenwort | 0 | 2 |
Aster amellus | Ialian Aster | 2 | 2 |
Astragalus hoantchy | Wu La Te Huang Qi | 1 | 1 |
Astragalus membranaceus | Huang Qi | 0 | 5 |
Belamcanda chinensis | Leopard Lily, Blackberry lily, Leopard Flower | 1 | 3 |
Bletilla striata | Hyacinth Orchid, Urn orchid, Hyacinth Bletilla, Hardy Orchid, Chinese Ground Orchid | 0 | 3 |
Botrychium virginianum | Rattlesnake Fern | 1 | 2 |
Bryonia dioica | Red Bryony, Cretan bryony | 1 | 2 |
Bupleurum chinense | Bei Chai Hu | 2 | 3 |
Bupleurum falcatum | Thorow-Wax | 2 | 2 |
Carpesium abrotanoides | | 2 | 2 |
Ceanothus cuneatus | Buckbrush, Sedgeleaf buckbrush, Monterey ceanothus | 2 | 1 |
Cedrus atlantica | Atlas Deodar, Atlantic cedar | 0 | 2 |
Cercis canadensis | Redbud, Eastern redbud, Mexican redbud,Texas redbud | 3 | 2 |
Chenopodium capitatum | Strawberry Blite, Blite goosefoot | 3 | 1 |
Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow | 1 | 1 |
Chrysothamnus nauseosus | Rubber Rabbitbrush | 1 | 2 |
Citrullus lanatus | Water Melon | 4 | 3 |
Coix lacryma-jobi | Job's Tears | 3 | 3 |
Comandra umbellata | Bastard Toad Flax, California bastard toadflax, Pale bastard toadflax | 1 | 1 |
Coptis teeta | Yun Lian | 1 | 2 |
Cydonia oblonga | Quince | 4 | 2 |
Dirca palustris | Leather Wood, Eastern leatherwood | 0 | 2 |
Echium vulgare | Viper's Bugloss, Common viper's bugloss | 1 | 2 |
Elaeagnus angustifolia | Oleaster, Russian olive | 4 | 2 |
Elaeagnus umbellata | Autumn Olive | 4 | 2 |
Ephedra equisetina | Muzei Ma Huang, Ma huang | 1 | 4 |
Ephedra major | Ma Huang | 1 | 4 |
Ephedra sinica | Ma Huang, Chinese ephedra | 1 | 4 |
Ephedra torreyana | Mexican Tea, Torrey's jointfir | 2 | 3 |
Eriodictyon californicum | Yerba Santa, California yerba santa | 2 | 3 |
Fagus grandifolia | American Beech | 2 | 2 |
Ficus carica | Fig, Edible fig, Fig Common | 4 | 2 |
Fritillaria cirrhosa | Chuan Bei Mu | 2 | 3 |
Fritillaria pallidiflora | Pale-Flowered Fritillary | 0 | 3 |
Gentiana scabra | Long Dan Cao | 1 | 3 |
Gentiana scabra buergeri | | 1 | 3 |
Glechoma hederacea | Ground Ivy, Field Balm, Gill Over The Ground, Runaway Robin | 2 | 3 |
Glycyrrhiza glabra | Liquorice, Cultivated licorice | 4 | 4 |
Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broomweed, Broom snakeweed | 0 | 2 |
Helianthus strumosus | Paleleaf Woodland Sunflower | 2 | 1 |
Hypochoeris radicata | Cat's Ear | 2 | 1 |
Hyssopus officinalis | Hyssop | 2 | 3 |
Indigofera cassioides | | 1 | 1 |
Juglans ailanthifolia | Japanese Walnut | 3 | 1 |
Juglans ailanthifolia cordiformis | Heartseed Walnut | 4 | 1 |
Juglans nigra | Black Walnut | 3 | 3 |
Juglans regia | Walnut, English walnut, Persian Walnut, | 4 | 3 |
Juncus effusus | Soft Rush, Common rush, Lamp rush, Pacific rush | 1 | 2 |
Juniperus monosperma | One-Seed Juniper | 3 | 2 |
Kadsura coccinea | | 2 | 1 |
Laburnum anagyroides | Laburnum, Golden chain tree | 0 | 1 |
Lamium album | White Dead Nettle | 2 | 3 |
Lavatera cachemiriana | Lavatera | 2 | 1 |
Ledum groenlandicum | Labrador Tea, Bog Labrador tea | 2 | 3 |
Ligustrum lucidum | Chinese Privet, Glossy privet, White Wax Tree, Tree Ligustrum | 1 | 3 |
Lilium brownii | Hong Kong Lily | 3 | 2 |
Lilium concolor | Morning Star Lily | 2 | 2 |
Lilium wallichianum | | 2 | 1 |
Linum usitatissimum | Flax, Common flax | 4 | 3 |
Liquidambar orientalis | Oriental Sweet Gum | 2 | 3 |
Liriope graminifolia | Lilyturf | 2 | 1 |
Liriope minor | | 2 | 1 |
Liriope muscari | Lilyturf, Big blue lilyturf, Border Grass, Blue Lilyturf, Liriope | 2 | 1 |
Liriope spicata | Lily Turf, Creeping liriope, Creeping Lilyturf | 2 | 1 |
Lithospermum incisum | Narrow-Leaf Gromwell, Narrowleaf stoneseed | 1 | 2 |
Lomatium dissectum | Fernleaf Biscuitroot, Carrotleaf biscuitroot | 4 | 2 |
Lomatium macrocarpum | Bigseed Biscuitroot | 4 | 2 |
Lomatium nudicaule | Pestle Parsnip, Barestem biscuitroot | 4 | 2 |
Lomatium triternatum | Nineleaf Biscuitroot, Broadnineleaf biscuitroot | 3 | 1 |
Lonicera caprifolium | Italian Honeysuckle, Italian woodbine | 1 | 2 |
Lonicera involucrata | Twinberry, Twinberry honeysuckle | 2 | 2 |
Loropetalum chinense | Fringe Flower, Chinese Fringe Bush | 0 | 2 |
Ludwigia palustris | Water Purslane, Marsh seedbox | 0 | 1 |
Malus fusca | Oregon Crab, Oregon crab apple | 3 | 2 |
Malva parviflora | Cheeseweed, Cheeseweed mallow | 3 | 2 |
Melaleuca uncinata | Broom honeymyrtle | 0 | 1 |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot, Mintleaf bergamot, Wild Bee-Balm, Lupine | 3 | 2 |
Morus alba | White Mulberry, Common Mulberry, | 4 | 3 |
Morus bombycis | Kuwa | 2 | 2 |
Myrica rubra | Chinese Bayberry | 2 | 2 |
Oenanthe aquatica | Water Dropwort, Fineleaf waterdropwort | 0 | 2 |
Ophiopogon japonicus | Snake's Beard, Dwarf lilyturf, Mondo Grass, Monkey Grass, Dwarf Lilyturf | 2 | 3 |
Opuntia compressa | Eastern Prickly Pear, Prickly Pear Cactus | 3 | 1 |
Orobanche californica | California Broomrape, Jepson's broomrape | 2 | 1 |
Orobanche fasciculata | Cancer Root, Clustered broomrape | 1 | 2 |
Osmorhiza occidentalis | Western Sweet-Cicely, Western sweetroot | 3 | 2 |
Ostrya virginiana | Ironwood, Hophornbeam, Hop Hornbeam American, Hop Hornbeam Eastern | 0 | 1 |
Packera aurea | Golden Groundsel - Life Root, Golden ragwort | 0 | 2 |
Paeonia brownii | Brown's Peony | 1 | 2 |
Perideridia gairdneri | Yampa, Gardner's yampah, Common yampah | 5 | 2 |
Perilla frutescens | Shiso, Beefsteakplant, Spreading Beefsteak Plant | 4 | 3 |
Perilla frutescens nankinensis | Purple Shiso | 4 | 3 |
Petasites frigidus | Sweet Coltsfoot, Arctic sweet coltsfoot, Arrowleaf sweet coltsfoot, Golden Palms Coltsfoot, Butterb | 2 | 1 |
Petasites hyperboreus | Arctic Sweet Coltsfoot | 2 | 1 |
Petasites palmatus | Sweet Butterbur, Golden Palms Coltsfoot, Sweet Coltsfoot, Butterbur | 2 | 1 |
Peucedanum officinale | Hog's Fennel | 0 | 2 |
Physalis pubescens | Ground Cherry, Husk tomato | 4 | 1 |
Picea engelmannii | Mountain Spruce, Engelmann spruce | 2 | 2 |
Picea glauca | White Spruce, Black Hills Spruce, Canadian Spruce | 2 | 2 |
Picea rubens | Red Spruce | 2 | 1 |
Picea sitchensis | Sitka Spruce | 2 | 2 |
Pimpinella anisum | Aniseed (Saunf - Hindi), Anise burnet saxifrage | 4 | 3 |
Pinus contorta | Beach Pine, Lodgepole pine, Bolander beach pine, Beach pine, Sierra lodgepole pine, Yukon pine, Shor | 3 | 2 |
Pinus edulis | Rocky Mountain Piñon, Twoneedle pinyon, Nut Pine, Pinyon Pine, Rocky Mountain Pinyon Pine, Singlelea | 4 | 2 |
Pinus monticola | Western White Pine | 2 | 2 |
Pinus muricata | Bishop's Pine | 2 | 2 |
Pinus ponderosa | Ponderosa Pine, Washoe pine | 3 | 2 |
Pinus quadrifolia | Parry Piñon, Parry's Pinyon Pine, Four-leaved Pinyon | 4 | 2 |
Pinus resinosa | Red Pine | 1 | 2 |
Pinus rigida | Northern Pitch Pine, Pitch pine | 1 | 2 |
Pinus sabiniana | Digger Pine, California foothill pine, Bull Pine, Gray Pine, Digger Pine | 4 | 2 |
Pinus strobus | White Pine, Eastern white pine | 2 | 3 |
Plantago amplexicaulis | | 1 | 2 |
Polemonium reptans | Abcess Root, Greek valerian | 0 | 2 |
Polygonum alaskanum | Alaska Wild Rhubarb | 2 | 1 |
Polygonum alpinum | Alpine Knotweed, Alaska wild rhubarb | 2 | 1 |
Polygonum amphibium | Willow Grass, Water knotweed, Longroot smartweed, Water smartweed | 1 | 2 |
Polygonum virginianum | Jumpseed, Fleece Flower, Smartweed, Knotweed | 1 | 1 |
Polypodium glycyrrhiza | Licorice Fern | 1 | 2 |
Polypodium vulgare | Polypody, Adders Fern, Golden Maidenhair Fern, Wall Fern, Common Polypod Fern | 2 | 3 |
Protea mellifera | Sugar Bush | 1 | 1 |
Prunus andersonii | Desert Peach | 2 | 2 |
Prunus armeniaca | Apricot | 4 | 3 |
Prunus dulcis | Almond, Sweet almond | 4 | 3 |
Prunus ilicifolia | Holly-Leaved Cherry | 2 | 1 |
Prunus mume | Japanese Apricot, Japanese Flowering, Apricot | 3 | 3 |
Prunus nigra | Canadian Plum | 4 | 1 |
Prunus pensylvanica | Pin Cherry | 2 | 2 |
Prunus serotina | Rum Cherry - Wild Cherry, Black Cherry, Wild Black Cherry | 4 | 2 |
Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry, Western chokecherry, Black chokecherry | 3 | 2 |
Prunus virginiana demissa | Western Chokecherry | 3 | 2 |
Prunus virginiana melanocarpa | Rocky Mountain Chokecherry | 3 | 2 |
Psoralea esculenta | Breadroot, Large Indian breadroot | 5 | 1 |
Pyrus pyrifolia | Sand Pear, Chinese pear | 4 | 1 |
Pyrus pyrifolia culta | Asian Pear | 4 | 1 |
Rhus ovata | Sugar Bush, Sugar sumac | 2 | 1 |
Rubus frondosus | Yankee Blackberry | 2 | 1 |
Rubus occidentalis | Black Raspberry | 4 | 2 |
Salvia carnosa | Purple Sage | 1 | 2 |
Salvia mellifera | Californian Black Sage | 1 | 2 |
Salvia sclarea | Clary, Europe sage, Clary Sage | 2 | 2 |
Sambucus caerulea | Blue Elder | 4 | 2 |
Schisandra chinensis | Magnolia Vine, Wu Wei Zi | 4 | 5 |
Schisandra sphenanthera | | 2 | 5 |
Silphium perfoliatum | Cup Plant, Rosinweed | 0 | 2 |
Smilax herbacea | Carrion Flower, Smooth carrionflower | 4 | 1 |
Solidago graminifolia | Flat-Topped Goldenrod | 1 | 1 |
Sonchus arvensis | Field Milk Thistle, Field sowthistle, Moist sowthistle | 2 | 1 |
Sophora flavescens | Ku Shen, Shrubby sophora | 0 | 3 |
Spiraea salicifolia | Bridewort, Willowleaf meadowsweet | 1 | 1 |
Streptopus roseus | Scootberry, Rosybells | 4 | 2 |
Taxus brevifolia | Pacific Yew | 3 | 4 |
Tephrosia virginiana | Catgut, Virginia tephrosia | 0 | 2 |
Thuja plicata | Western Red Cedar, Giant Arborvitae, Giant Cedar, Incense Cedar, Western Red Cedar | 1 | 2 |
Torreya nucifera | Kaya, Japanese torreya | 5 | 2 |
Tribulus terrestris | Caltrop, Puncturevine | 1 | 3 |
Triosteum perfoliatum | Wild Coffee, Feverwort | 1 | 2 |
Vaccinium corymbosum | High-Bush Blueberry, American Blueberry, Swamp Blueberry, Blueberry | 4 | 1 |
Verbascum densiflorum | Mullein | 0 | 2 |
Verbascum nigrum | Dark Mullein, Black mullein | 0 | 3 |
Verbascum phlomoides | Wooly Mullein, Orange mullein | 0 | 3 |
Viola biflora | Twoflower Violet, Arctic yellow violet, Carlott's violet | 3 | 1 |
Ziziphus jujuba | Jujube | 4 | 3 |
Baillonella toxisperma | African Pearwood, False Shea Butternut | 3 | 3 |
Cajanus cajan | Pigeon Pea, Puerto Rico Bean, Gandul, Dhal, Congo Pea | 4 | 2 |
Chrysophyllum cainito | Star Apple, Caimito | 4 | 2 |
Entada phaseoloides | St. Thomas Bean | 3 | 2 |
Hymenaea courbaril | West Indian Locust | 3 | 3 |
Linum hybrids | Perennial Flax | 4 | 4 |
Malpighia glabra | Escobillo, Acerola | 4 | 1 |
Pouteria sapota | Sapote, Mamey Sapote | 4 | 2 |
Prosopis cineraria | Jandi, Ghaf | 3 | 2 |
Prunus armeniaca mandschurica | Manchurian apricot | 4 | 3 |
Gossypium barbadense | Sea Island Cotton | 3 | 2 |
Guiera senegalensis | Moshi medicine, guier du Senegal | 1 | 4 |
Handroanthus serratifolius | Yellow Trumpet Tree | 0 | 2 |
Lantana camara | Wild Sage, Lantana Verbena | 2 | 4 |