Latin Name | Common Name | Edibility Rating | Medicinal Rating |
Abies lasiocarpa | Subalpine Fir, Alpine Fir | 2 | 2 |
Abronia fragrans | Snowball Sand Verbena | 2 | 1 |
Acer negundo | Box Elder | 3 | 1 |
Acer pensylvanicum | Moosewood, Striped maple, Moosewood, Pennsylvania Maple | 0 | 1 |
Achlys triphylla | Vanilla leaf, Sweet after death | 0 | 1 |
Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry | 0 | 2 |
Adiantum venustum | Evergreen Maidenhair Fern | 0 | 1 |
Aesculus chinensis | Chinese Horse Chestnut | 3 | 1 |
Ailanthus altissima | Tree Of Heaven | 1 | 3 |
Aleurites fordii | Tung Tree, Tung Oil Tree, Wood Oil Tree China | 1 | 3 |
Allium tricoccum | Wood Leek, Ramp | 4 | 2 |
Alnus glutinosa | Alder, European alder , Common Alder, Black Alder | 0 | 3 |
Alnus rhombifolia | White Alder | 1 | 2 |
Alnus rugosa | Speckled Alder | 0 | 2 |
Alnus serrulata | Smooth Alder, Hazel alder | 0 | 2 |
Alnus sinuata | Sitka Alder | 1 | 1 |
Alnus tenuifolia | Mountain Alder, Thinleaf alder | 1 | 2 |
Alnus viridis crispa | American Green Alder | 1 | 2 |
Ambrosia artemesiifolia | Roman Wormwood, Bitterweed, Blackweed, Carrot Weed, Hay Fever Weed, Stickeweed, Tassel Weed, Wild Ta | 2 | 3 |
Ambrosia trifida | Giant Ragweed, Great ragweed, Texan great ragweed, Bitterweed, Bloodweed, Buffalo Weed, Horse Cane | 1 | 3 |
Anemone obtusiloba | | 0 | 1 |
Anemone virginiana | Tall Thimbleweed | 0 | 1 |
Anthemis cotula | Mayweed, Stinking chamomile | 1 | 2 |
Apocynum androsaemifolium | Spreading Dogbane | 0 | 2 |
Apocynum cannabinum | Indian Hemp | 2 | 2 |
Argemone albiflora | White Prickly Poppy, Bluestem pricklypoppy | 0 | 1 |
Argemone mexicana | Prickly Poppy, Mexican pricklypoppy | 1 | 3 |
Asarum europaeum | Asarabacca, European Wild Ginger | 0 | 2 |
Asarum sieboldii | Wild Ginger | 0 | 2 |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed, Swamp Butterfly Weed, Marsh Milkweed | 3 | 2 |
Asclepias subulata | Rush Milkweed | 0 | 1 |
Asclepias syriaca | Common Milkweed, Silkweed, Milkweed | 3 | 2 |
Asimina triloba | Papaw | 4 | 2 |
Atriplex hortensis | Orach, Garden orache | 4 | 2 |
Baptisia australis | Wild Indigo, Blue wild indigo, Blue False Indigo | 0 | 2 |
Baptisia lactea | Wild Indigo | 0 | 1 |
Baptisia tinctoria | Wild Indigo, Horseflyweed | 1 | 3 |
Betula alleghaniensis | Yellow Birch, Swamp Birch | 3 | 2 |
Boerhavia diffusa | Tar Vine, Red spiderling | 2 | 4 |
Botrychium virginianum | Rattlesnake Fern | 1 | 2 |
Brassica juncea | Brown Mustard | 4 | 2 |
Brassica juncea crispifolia | Curled Mustard | 4 | 2 |
Brassica juncea foliosa | Leaf Mustard | 4 | 2 |
Brassica juncea multiceps | Green In The Snow | 4 | 2 |
Brassica juncea napiformis | Root Mustard | 4 | 2 |
Brassica juncea rugosa | Head Mustard | 4 | 2 |
Brassica juncea strumata | Large Petiole Mustard | 4 | 2 |
Brassica juncea tumida | Swollen-Stem Mustard | 4 | 2 |
Brassica nigra | Black Mustard | 3 | 3 |
Calycanthus floridus | Carolina Allspice, Eastern sweetshrub, Strawberry Bush, Sweetshrub, Carolina Allspice | 3 | 2 |
Campanula latifolia | Large Campanula, Giant bellflower | 3 | 1 |
Cardiospermum halicacabum | Heart Seed, Balloon vine | 1 | 2 |
Carlina acaulis | Stemless Carline Thistle | 2 | 2 |
Carpesium abrotanoides | | 2 | 2 |
Celastrus dependens | | 1 | 2 |
Celastrus scandens | Climbing Bittersweet, American bittersweet | 2 | 2 |
Centaurium erythraea | Centaury - Feverwort, European centaury | 1 | 3 |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Button Bush, Common buttonbush, Button Willow, Honey Bells, Buttonbush | 0 | 2 |
Chamaelirium luteum | Blazing Star - Unicorn Root - Devil's Bit, Fairywand | 0 | 3 |
Cicuta virosa | Cowbane, Mackenzie's water hemlock | 1 | 1 |
Cirsium arvense | Creeping Thistle, Canada thistle | 2 | 2 |
Cnicus benedictus | Blessed Thistle | 2 | 3 |
Colchicum autumnale | Autumn Crocus, Meadow Saffron, | 0 | 3 |
Colutea arborescens | Bladder Senna | 0 | 2 |
Conium maculatum | Hemlock, Poison hemlock | 1 | 2 |
Convallaria majalis | Lily Of The Valley, European lily of the valley | 1 | 3 |
Coreopsis tinctoria | Coreopsis, Golden tickseed, Atkinson's tickseed, Dyer's Coreopsis, Plains Coreopsis, Annual Coreops | 1 | 1 |
Coreopsis tinctoria atkinsoniana | Coreopsis | 1 | 1 |
Cornus sanguinea | Dogwood, Bloodtwig dogwood | 2 | 1 |
Coronilla varia | Crown Vetch | 0 | 1 |
Crinum asiaticum | Asian Poison Bulb | 0 | 1 |
Cucumis melo | Melon, Cantaloupe | 4 | 2 |
Cytisus scoparius | Broom, Scotch broom, Common Broom | 1 | 3 |
Dalea candida oligophylla | White Prairie Clover | 3 | 1 |
Daphne laureola | Spurge Laurel | 0 | 1 |
Daphne mezereum | Mezereon, Paradise plant, February Daphne | 0 | 2 |
Delphinium elatum | Candle larkspur, English Larkspur | 0 | 1 |
Delphinium staphisagria | Stavesacre | 0 | 2 |
Dichroa febrifuga | Chinese Quinine, Dichroa | 0 | 3 |
Digitaria sanguinalis | Crab Grass, Hairy crabgrass | 2 | 1 |
Dirca palustris | Leather Wood, Eastern leatherwood | 0 | 2 |
Eclipta prostrata | Han Lian Cao, False daisy | 1 | 3 |
Eryngium aquaticum | Button Snakeroot, Rattlesnakemaster | 0 | 2 |
Eryngium yuccifolium | Button Eryngo | 0 | 2 |
Erythronium americanum | Trout Lily, Dogtooth violet | 4 | 1 |
Euonymus atropurpureus | Wahoo- Indian Arrow Wood - Burning Bush, Eastern wahoo | 1 | 2 |
Eupatorium cannabinum | Hemp Agrimony | 0 | 3 |
Eupatorium perfoliatum | Thoroughwort, Boneset, Common boneset | 0 | 3 |
Euphorbia lathyris | Caper Spurge, Moleplant | 1 | 2 |
Frasera caroliniensis | American Columbo | 0 | 2 |
Genista tinctoria | Dyer's Greenweed, Common Woadwaxen, Broom | 1 | 2 |
Gillenia stipulata | American Ipecacuanna, American ipecac | 0 | 3 |
Gillenia trifoliata | Indian Physic, Bowman's root | 0 | 3 |
Gleditsia sinensis | Locust | 3 | 3 |
Hedera helix | Ivy, English ivy, Algerian ivy, Baltic Ivy, Common Ivy | 0 | 3 |
Helleborus niger | Black Hellebore | 0 | 2 |
Helleborus viridis | Green Hellebore | 0 | 2 |
Ilex aquifolium | Holly, English holl, Christmas Holly, Common Holly, English Holly | 2 | 2 |
Ilex cassine | Cassine, Dahoon, Cassine Holly | 1 | 1 |
Ilex opaca | American Holly | 2 | 2 |
Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Holly, | 1 | 1 |
Impatiens balsamina | Rose Balsam, Spotted snapweed, Touch-Me-Not, Garden Balsam | 2 | 2 |
Impatiens noli-tangere | Touch-Me-Not | 3 | 2 |
Ipomopsis aggregata | Skyrocket, Scarlet gilia | 1 | 2 |
Iris germanica | Purple Flag, German iris, Orris-root, Tall Bearded German Iris, Bearded Iris | 1 | 3 |
Iris missouriensis | Rocky Mountain Iris | 1 | 2 |
Iris pseudacorus | Yellow Flag, Paleyellow iris | 1 | 2 |
Iris versicolor | Blue Flag, Harlequin blueflag | 0 | 3 |
Jeffersonia diphylla | Twinleaf, Rheumatism Root | 0 | 2 |
Juniperus recurva | Himalayan Juniper | 1 | 1 |
Juniperus sabina | Savine, Tam Juniper | 0 | 2 |
Justicia gendarussa | | 0 | 2 |
Lagenaria siceraria | Bottle Gourd | 3 | 2 |
Laurus nobilis | Bay Tree, Sweet bay, Grecian Laurel, True Laurel, | 3 | 3 |
Ligularia amplexicaulis | | 0 | 2 |
Linum catharticum | Purging Flax, Fairy flax | 0 | 2 |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | 0 | 3 |
Lobelia dortmanna | Water Lobelia, Dortmann's cardinalflower | 0 | 2 |
Lobelia inflata | Indian Tobacco | 0 | 3 |
Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia, Blue Cardinal Flower, Big Blue Lobelia, Great Lobelia | 0 | 2 |
Lobelia spicata | Pale Spike, Palespike lobelia | 0 | 1 |
Lonicera caprifolium | Italian Honeysuckle, Italian woodbine | 1 | 2 |
Lonicera gracilipes | | 1 | 1 |
Lonicera gracilipes glabra | | 1 | 1 |
Lonicera involucrata | Twinberry, Twinberry honeysuckle | 2 | 2 |
Lonicera morrowii | Morrow's honeysuckle | 1 | 1 |
Lonicera periclymenum | Honeysuckle, European honeysuckle | 1 | 2 |
Lonicera sempervirens | Trumpet Honeysuckle, Coral Honeysuckle | 0 | 1 |
Lycopodium selago | Fir Clubmoss | 1 | 2 |
Lycoris radiata | Spider Lily, Red spider lily, Nerine Lily, Short tube Lycoris | 2 | 2 |
Lysimachia quadrifolia | Whorled Yellow Loosestrife | 1 | 1 |
Mandragora officinarum | Mandrake | 1 | 2 |
Medicago sativa | Alfalfa, Yellow alfalfa | 4 | 3 |
Melia azederach | Bead Tree, Pride of India, Chinaberry | 3 | 3 |
Melianthus major | Honey Flower | 3 | 1 |
Mentha aquatica | Water Mint | 3 | 3 |
Menyanthes trifoliata | Bogbean, Buckbean, Marsh Trefoil, | 2 | 3 |
Mercurialis annua | Annual Mercury | 1 | 1 |
Mercurialis perennis | Dog's Mercury | 0 | 1 |
Morina longifolia | Whorlflower | 0 | 2 |
Myrica cerifera | Wax Myrtle - Bayberry Wild Cinnamon, Southern Bayberry, Wax Myrtle, Southern Wax Myrtle | 3 | 3 |
Myrica heterophylla | Bayberry | 3 | 2 |
Narcissus poeticus | Poet's Narcissus | 0 | 1 |
Narcissus pseudonarcissus | Wild Daffodil, Daffodil | 0 | 2 |
Narcissus tazetta | Bunchflower Daffodil, Cream narcissus | 0 | 2 |
Nerium oleander | Oleander, Rose Bay | 0 | 2 |
Nicotiana rustica | Wild Tobacco, Aztec tobacco | 0 | 2 |
Nicotiana tabacum | Tobacco, Cultivated tobacco | 2 | 2 |
Nyssa sylvatica | Black Tupelo, Blackgum, Sour Gum, Black Tupelo | 2 | 1 |
Oenanthe sarmentosa | Water Dropwort,Water parsely | 3 | 1 |
Ophioglossum vulgatum | Adder's Tongue, Southern adderstongue | 1 | 2 |
Paeonia emodi | | 1 | 2 |
Panax ginseng | Ginseng, Chinese ginseng | 2 | 5 |
Panicum capillare | Old Witch Grass, Witchgrass | 2 | 1 |
Pectis angustifolia | Narrowleaf Pectis, Lemonscent | 1 | 1 |
Persea borbonia | Red Bay, Sweetbay | 1 | 2 |
Physocarpus opulifolius | Ninebark, Common ninebark, Atlantic ninebark, Ninebark | 0 | 1 |
Pinus echinata | Short-Leaf Pine | 2 | 2 |
Pinus edulis | Rocky Mountain Piñon, Twoneedle pinyon, Nut Pine, Pinyon Pine, Rocky Mountain Pinyon Pine, Singlelea | 4 | 2 |
Platanus occidentalis | Buttonwood, American sycamore, American Planetree, Sycamore, American Sycamore | 1 | 2 |
Plumbago europaea | Plumbago | 0 | 2 |
Polygala senega | Senega Snake Root | 0 | 3 |
Polygonatum multiflorum | Solomon's Seal, Eurasian Solomon's seal | 2 | 3 |
Polygonum aviculare | Knotweed, Prostrate knotweed | 2 | 3 |
Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas Fern | 1 | 2 |
Primula vulgaris | Primrose, Common Primrose, English Primrose | 3 | 3 |
Prunus armeniaca | Apricot | 4 | 3 |
Psoralea glandulosa | Culen | 3 | 1 |
Pueraria tuberosa | | 2 | 2 |
Pyrularia pubera | Oil Nut, Buffalo nut | 1 | 1 |
Quercus imbricaria | Shingle Oak, Northern Laurel Oak | 2 | 2 |
Quercus rubra | Red Oak, Northern red oak | 3 | 2 |
Quercus stellata | Post Oak | 3 | 2 |
Quercus velutina | Black Oak | 2 | 3 |
Rhamnus japonica | Japanese buckthorn | 1 | 1 |
Rhamnus virgatus | | 1 | 1 |
Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumach | 4 | 3 |
Rhus trilobata | Skunk Bush, Basketbush, Squawbush, Three Leaf Sumac | 4 | 2 |
Rhus typhina | Stag's Horn Sumach, Velvet Sumac, Staghorn Sumac | 4 | 2 |
Ribes cereum | Wax Currant | 2 | 1 |
Robinia neomexicana | New Mexico Locust, Rusby's locust, Locust | 1 | 1 |
Robinia pseudoacacia | Black Locust, Yellow Locust | 3 | 2 |
Ruta graveolens | Rue, Common rue, Herb of Grace, Garden Rue | 1 | 3 |
Salvia lanata | | 1 | 1 |
Salvia moorcroftiana | | 1 | 1 |
Sambucus caerulea | Blue Elder | 4 | 2 |
Sambucus chinensis | Chinese Elder | 2 | 1 |
Sambucus nigra | Elderberry - European Elder, Black elderberry, American black elderberry, Blue elderberry, Europea | 4 | 3 |
Sambucus williamsii | | 1 | 2 |
Sanguinaria canadensis | Blood Root, Red Puccoon, Bloodroot | 0 | 3 |
Sanicula marylandica | Maryland Sanicle | 0 | 2 |
Sapium sebiferum | Vegetable Tallow, Chinese tallow, Popcorn Tree, Chinese Tallow Tree | 2 | 2 |
Senecio viscosus | Sticky Groundsel, Sticky ragwort | 0 | 1 |
Silphium laciniatum | Compass Plant, Robinson's compassplant | 2 | 2 |
Silphium terebinthinaceum | Prairie Dockm, Prairie rosinweed, Lucy Braun's rosinweed | 0 | 2 |
Silybum marianum | Milk Thistle, Blessed milkthistle | 3 | 5 |
Sinapis alba | White Mustard | 3 | 3 |
Solanum dulcamara | Bittersweet. Bittersweet Nightshade, Climbing nightshade, Bittersweet, Deadly Nightshade, Poisonous | 0 | 3 |
Sophora japonica | Japanese Pagoda Tree, Scholar Tree | 2 | 3 |
Spartium junceum | Spanish Broom, Weaver's Broom, Spanish Broom | 0 | 2 |
Spiraea prunifolia | Bridalwreath Spiraea | 1 | 1 |
Stachys officinalis | Wood Betony, Common hedgenettle, Betony, Woundwort | 1 | 2 |
Stachys palustris | Marsh Woundwort, Marsh hedgenettle | 3 | 2 |
Suaeda fruticosa | Shrubby Seablite | 2 | 1 |
Symplocarpus foetidus | Skunk Cabbage | 2 | 3 |
Tamus communis | Black Bryony | 1 | 2 |
Trichosanthes cucumerina anguina | Snake Gourd | 2 | 1 |
Trientalis europaea | Chickweed Wintergreen, Arctic starflower | 0 | 1 |
Triosteum perfoliatum | Wild Coffee, Feverwort | 1 | 2 |
Tylophora ovata | | 0 | 2 |
Urginea maritima | Sea Squill, Red squill | 0 | 3 |
Veratrum album | White Hellebore, White false hellebore | 0 | 2 |
Veratrum maackii parviflorum | | 1 | 1 |
Veratrum nigrum | Black Hellebore | 0 | 1 |
Veratrum viride | Indian Poke, American Hellebore | 1 | 2 |
Verbena hastata | American Blue Vervain, Swamp verbena | 1 | 2 |
Veronicastrum virginicum | Beaumont's Root, Culver's root, Bowman's Root, Culver's Root, Black Root | 0 | 3 |
Viburnum trilobum | American Cranberry, Highbush Cranberry, Cranberrybush, American Cranberrybush Viburnum | 3 | 1 |
Vincetoxicum hirundinaria | Swallow Wort. white swallow-wort | 0 | 1 |
Viola biflora | Twoflower Violet, Arctic yellow violet, Carlott's violet | 3 | 1 |
Viola canadensis | Canada Violet, Canadian white violet, Creepingroot violet | 3 | 1 |
Viola canina | Dog Violet | 3 | 1 |
Viola odorata | Sweet Violet, English Violet, Garden Violet, Sweet Violet, Florist's Violet | 5 | 3 |
Viola tricolor | Heartsease, Johnny jumpup, Field Pansy, | 2 | 3 |
Wyethia mollis | Woolly Wyethia, Woolly mule-ears | 4 | 1 |
Xanthium spinosum | Spiny Cocklebur | 0 | 1 |
Alchornea cordifolia | Christmas Bush | 2 | 4 |
Balanites aegyptiaca | Desert Date. Desert date, Soapberry tree | 3 | 2 |
Calotropis gigantea | Giant Milkweed, Crown Flower, Giant Calotrope, Swallow-wort | 2 | 3 |
Canarium schweinfurtii | African elemi | 3 | 3 |
Cedrela fissilis | Cedro, Cigar Box Tree | 0 | 2 |
Cocos nucifera | Coconut Palm, Coconut | 5 | 2 |
Crescentia cujete | Calabash Tree | 3 | 2 |
Gymnema sylvestre | Gurmar, Gymnema | 3 | 4 |
Jatropha curcas | Physic Nut, Barbados Nut | 2 | 3 |
Mimosa pudica | Morivivir, Sensitive Plant | 2 | 2 |
Passiflora quadrangularis | Giant Granadilla, Badea | 4 | 2 |
Pouteria sapota | Sapote, Mamey Sapote | 4 | 2 |
Prunus armeniaca mandschurica | Manchurian apricot | 4 | 3 |
Sambucus nigra spp canadensis | American Elder | 4 | 3 |
Terminalia catappa | Indian Almond, Tropical Almond Tree | 4 | 2 |
Vachellia karroo | Cape Thorn Tree | 2 | 1 |
Afzelia africana | African Mahogany | 2 | 2 |
Banisteriopsis caapi | Yage, Ayahuasca, Caapi | 0 | 4 |
Brassica juncea integrifolia crispifolia | Curled Mustard | 4 | 2 |
Brassica juncea integrifolia rugosa | Head Mustard | 4 | 2 |
Brassica juncea integrifolia strumata | Large Petiole Mustard | 4 | 2 |
Brassica juncea integrifolia subintegrifolia | Leaf Mustard | 4 | 2 |
Brassica juncea tsatsai multiceps | Green In The Snow | 4 | 2 |
Brassica juncea tsatsai tumida | Swollen-Stem Mustard | 4 | 2 |
Calotropis procera | Auricula Tree, Dead Sea Apple, Sodom Apple | 1 | 3 |
Carapichea ipecacuanha | Ipecac | 0 | 4 |
Catharanthus roseus | Madagascar Periwinkle, Jasmine, Cayenne Old Maid Periwinkle | 1 | 4 |
Ceiba aesculifolia | Pochote | 2 | 1 |
Erythrophleum ivorense | Ordealtree, sasswoodtree | 1 | 3 |
Erythrophleum suaveolens | Erun, ordealtree, Sasswood Tree | 0 | 3 |
Euphorbia tirucalli | African Milkbush, Pencil Cactus, Milk Bush | 0 | 2 |
Gloriosa superba | Gloriosa Lily, Climbing Lily, Flame Lily | 0 | 4 |
Gossypium barbadense | Sea Island Cotton | 3 | 2 |
Griffonia simplicifolia | Griffonia | 2 | 4 |
Guarea guidonia | Muskwood , Carrapeta, Cedro Macho | 0 | 2 |
Manilkara bidentata | Balata, bulletwood, bully tree | 2 | 2 |
Ochroma pyramidale | Balsa Wood | 0 | 2 |
Orthosiphon aristatus | Java Tea, Cat's Whiskers | 0 | 4 |
Phytolacca dodecandra | Endod, Pokeberry | 2 | 3 |
Pterocarpus indicus | Amboyna, Indian Padauk, Burmese Rosewood, Narra, Bloodwood | 2 | 2 |
Scoparia dulcis | Sweet Broom, Licorice Weed, Vassourinha | 2 | 4 |
Trichilia dregeana | Cape Mahogany | 4 | 3 |
Vernicia fordii | Tung Tree, Tung Nut | 1 | 3 |