Our new book Edible Shrubs is now available.

Edible Shrubs provides detailed information, attractively presented, on over 70 shrub species. They have been selected to provide a mix of different plant sizes and growing conditions. Most provide delicious and nutritious fruit, but many also have edible leaves, seeds, flowers, stems or roots, or they yield edible or useful oil.

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Latin NameCommon NameEdibility RatingMedicinal Rating
Actaea pachypodaWhite Baneberry02
Alkanna tinctoriaAlkanet, Alkanna12
Berberis vulgarisEuropean Barberry, Common barberry33
Centaurea cyanusCornflower, Garden cornflower, Blue Bottle, Cornflower22
Clematis tibetana 02
Clerodendrum trichotomumChou Wu Tong, Harlequin glorybower, Ferruginous clerodendrum, Harlequin Glory Bower13
Cnidium monnieriShe Chuang Zi, Monnier's snowparsley13
Crambe cordifolia 31
Crambe kotschyana 21
Daucus pusillusRattlesnake Weed, American wild carrot22
Desmanthus illinoensisPrairie Mimosa, Illinois bundleflower41
Epilobium latifoliumRiver Beauty32
Euodia lepta 02
Euonymus alatusWinged Spindle Tree, Burningbush, Corky spindletree12
Euphorbia hirtaAsthma Weed, Pill-Bearing Spurge13
Gleditsia sinensisLocust33
Hibiscus syriacusRose Of Sharon, Althaea, Shrub Althea, Hardy Hibiscus42
Leucothoe axillarisCoastal Doghobble01
Leucothoe grayana 01
Liatris punctataSnakeroot, Dotted blazing star, Mexican blazing star, Nebraska blazing star12
Litsea umbrosa 01
Lonicera involucrataTwinberry, Twinberry honeysuckle22
Lycopodium clavatumCommon Club Moss, Running clubmoss03
Mertensia ciliataMountain Bell, Tall fringed bluebells11
Olea europaeaOlive, African olive, European olive43
Pittosporum phillyreoidesWeeping Pittosporum, Narrow-leaf Pittosporum21
Prangos pabularia 12
Reaumuria hypericoides 01
Rhus trilobataSkunk Bush, Basketbush, Squawbush, Three Leaf Sumac42
Rosa blandaLabrador Rose, Smooth rose, Hispid rose22
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