Latin Name | Common Name | Edibility Rating | Medicinal Rating |
Abutilon theophrasti | China Jute, Velvetleaf, Butterprint Buttonweed Jute, China Mallow, Indian Velvet Leaf | 3 | 2 |
Acanthus mollis | Bear's Breeches | 0 | 2 |
Actinidia chinensis | Kiwi | 4 | 2 |
Actinidia deliciosa | Kiwi Fruit | 5 | 1 |
Ageratina altissima | White Snakeroot, Richweed | 0 | 2 |
Agrimonia parviflora | Harvestlice | 0 | 2 |
Agrimonia striata | Roadside agrimony | 0 | 2 |
Ajuga chamaepitys | Ground Pine, Yellow bugle | 0 | 2 |
Akebia quinata | Akebia, Chocolate vine, Fiveleaf Akebia, Chocolate Vine | 4 | 2 |
Akebia trifoliata | Akebia, Threeleaf Akebia | 4 | 2 |
Alchornea cordifolia | Christmas Bush | 2 | 4 |
Allium tuberosum | Garlic Chives, Chinese chives, Oriental Chives, | 5 | 2 |
Althaea officinalis | Marsh Mallow, Common marshmallow | 5 | 5 |
Amaranthus spinosus | Spiny Amaranth | 2 | 3 |
Ammi visnaga | Visnaga. Khella. Bishop's Weed, Toothpickweed | 1 | 5 |
Anemarrhena asphodeloides | Zhi Mu | 0 | 3 |
Angelica archangelica | Angelica, Norwegian angelica | 3 | 3 |
Aphanes arvensis | Parsley Piert, Field parsley piert | 2 | 3 |
Apocynum androsaemifolium | Spreading Dogbane | 0 | 2 |
Apocynum cannabinum | Indian Hemp | 2 | 2 |
Arbutus unedo | Strawberry Tree | 4 | 2 |
Arctostaphylos glauca | Bigberry Manzanita | 2 | 2 |
Arctostaphylos tomentosa | Downy Manzanita, Woollyleaf manzanita, Brittleleaf manzanita, Dacite manzanita, Rosy manzanita, San | 3 | 3 |
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | Bearberry | 3 | 4 |
Armeria maritima | Sea Thrift, Thrift seapink, California seapink, Interior seapink, Siberian sea thrift | 1 | 1 |
Armoracia rusticana | Horseradish, Red Cole | 3 | 3 |
Asparagus officinalis | Asparagus, Garden asparagus | 4 | 3 |
Aspidistra elatior | Aspidistra, Cast Iron Plant | 0 | 2 |
Atropa acuminata | Indian Belladonna | 0 | 3 |
Atropa bella-donna | Deadly Nightshade, Belladonna | 0 | 3 |
Baccharis genistelloides | Carqueja | 0 | 4 |
Barringtonia procera | Pao nuts, Cut nut | 4 | 2 |
Bassia scoparia | Summer Cypress, Burningbush | 2 | 2 |
Bauhinia forficata | Brazilian Orchid Tree | 0 | 4 |
Benincasa hispida | Wax Gourd | 3 | 3 |
Berberis darwinii | Darwin's Barberry, Darwin's berberis | 4 | 2 |
Bergenia ciliata | | 1 | 2 |
Betula lenta | Cherry Birch, Sweet birch, Black Birch, Cherry Birch | 3 | 3 |
Betula nigra | River Birch, Black Birch, Red Birch, Water Birch, River Birch | 3 | 2 |
Betula occidentalis | Water Birch | 3 | 2 |
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 platyphylla | White Birch, Asian white birch, | 2 | 2 |
Betula populifolia | Grey Birch | 2 | 1 |
Betula pubescens | White Birch, Downy birch | 3 | 3 |
Betula schmidtii | Schmidt's Birch | 0 | 0 |
Betula utilis | Indian Paper Birch, Whitebarked Himilayan Birch, Jacquemontii Birch | 0 | 2 |
Bidens frondosa | Beggar Ticks, Devil's beggartick | 1 | 2 |
Bombax ceiba | Red Silk Cotton Tree, Kapok Tree | 2 | 2 |
Bryonia alba | White Bryony | 1 | 2 |
Calluna vulgaris | Heather, Scotch Heather | 2 | 2 |
Calycanthus floridus glaucus | Eastern Sweetshrub | 2 | 1 |
Capsella bursa-pastoris | Shepherd's Purse | 3 | 2 |
Cedrus deodara | Deodar, Deodar cedar | 0 | 2 |
Chenopodium album | Fat Hen, Lambsquarters | 3 | 2 |
Chimaphila maculata | Spotted Wintergreen, Striped prince's pine, Pipsissewa | 1 | 3 |
Chimaphila umbellata | Pipsissewa | 2 | 3 |
Citrullus colocynthis | Perennial egusi, Bitter-apple | 3 | 2 |
Citrullus lanatus | Water Melon | 4 | 3 |
Collinsonia canadensis | Stone Root - Horse Balm, Richweed | 0 | 3 |
Copaifera coriacea | Sapucaia tree | 2 | 4 |
Copaifera guyanensis | Hoepel, Guyanense Copaiba | 2 | 4 |
Copaifera langsdorffii | Copaiba, Langsdorf's copaifera | 1 | 4 |
Copaifera multijuga | Hayne oil, Copaiba, | 1 | 4 |
Copaifera officinalis | Copaiba Balsam, Medicinal Copaiba | 2 | 4 |
Copaifera reticulata | Copaiba, Reticulated Copaiba, Copaiba Balsam | 0 | 4 |
Coprosma grandifolia | | 1 | 1 |
Coptis deltoidea | | 0 | 2 |
Cornus chinensis | | 2 | 3 |
Cornus officinalis | Shan Zhu Yu, Asiatic dogwood, Japanese Cornel Dogwood | 4 | 3 |
Cucurbita pepo | Pumpkin, Field pumpkin, Ozark melon, Texas gourd | 4 | 3 |
Cuscuta epithymum | Lesser Dodder | 0 | 2 |
Cynanchum atratum | Bai Wei | 1 | 2 |
Cypripedium acaule | Nerve Root, Moccasin flower, Ladyslipper Orchid, Pink Lady's Slipper | 0 | 3 |
Daucus carota | Wild Carrot, Queen anne's lace, Carrot, Wild Carrot, Queen Anne's Lace | 2 | 3 |
Desmodium styracifolium | Guang Jing Qian Cao, Coin-leaf desmodium | 0 | 2 |
Dianthus chinensis | Chinese Pink, Rainbow pink, Annual Pink, China Pink | 0 | 3 |
Dianthus superbus | Fringed Pink | 2 | 3 |
Echinacea angustifolia | Echinacea, Blacksamson echinacea, Strigose blacksamson | 0 | 5 |
Echinacea pallida | Cone Flower, Pale purple coneflower | 0 | 5 |
Echinacea purpurea | Echinacea, Eastern purple coneflower, Hedge Coneflower, Black Sampson , Purple Coneflower | 1 | 5 |
Elytrigia repens | Couch Grass, Quackgrass | 2 | 3 |
Epigaea repens | Mayflower, Trailing arbutus, Ground Laurel | 2 | 2 |
Epilobium glabellum | | 1 | 1 |
Equisetum arvense | Field Horsetail | 2 | 3 |
Erythrina verna | Mulungu | 0 | 4 |
Eupatorium purpureum | Gravel Root | 1 | 3 |
Euphorbia corollata | Wild Spurge, Flowering spurge | 0 | 2 |
Fabiana imbricata | Pichi | 0 | 2 |
Foeniculum vulgare | Fennel, Sweet fennel | 5 | 3 |
Foeniculum vulgare azoricum | Florence Fennel | 3 | 3 |
Foeniculum vulgare dulce | Sweet Fennel | 4 | 3 |
Forsythia suspensa | Lian Qiao, Weeping forsythia | 1 | 3 |
Fouquieria splendens | Ocotillo. Coach whip | 2 | 2 |
Fraxinus longicuspis | | 0 | 1 |
Fremontodendron californicum | Flannel Flower, California flannelbush, Common Flannel Bush | 0 | 2 |
Galium verum | Lady's Bedstraw, Yellow Spring bedstraw, Wirtgen's bedstraw | 3 | 2 |
Garcinia kola | Bitter Kola | 3 | 4 |
Garcinia mangostana | Mangosteen, Manggis | 5 | 2 |
Gentiana manshurica | | 0 | 3 |
Gentiana scabra | Long Dan Cao | 1 | 3 |
Gentiana scabra buergeri | | 1 | 3 |
Gentiana triflora | | 0 | 2 |
Ginkgo biloba | Maidenhair Tree, Ginkgo | 5 | 5 |
Glycyrrhiza glabra | Liquorice, Cultivated licorice | 4 | 4 |
Guazuma ulmifolia | Bastard Cedar. West Indian elm, Guasimo | 2 | 3 |
Hibiscus moscheutos | Swamp Rose Mallow, Crimsoneyed rosemallow, Wild Cotton, Common Rosemallow, Eastern Rosemallow, Swamp | 1 | 2 |
Hordeum distichon | Two-Rowed Barley | 4 | 3 |
Humulus japonicus | Japanese Hop | 2 | 1 |
Hymenaea courbaril | West Indian Locust | 3 | 3 |
Hyoscyamus albus | White Henbane | 0 | 4 |
Hyoscyamus niger | Henbane, Black henbane | 0 | 4 |
Imperata cylindrica | Cogongrass, Japanese Blood Grass | 3 | 3 |
Intsia bijuga | Moluccan Ironwood, Ipil | 1 | 2 |
Jeffersonia diphylla | Twinleaf, Rheumatism Root | 0 | 2 |
Juglans regia | Walnut, English walnut, Persian Walnut, | 4 | 3 |
Juncus effusus | Soft Rush, Common rush, Lamp rush, Pacific rush | 1 | 2 |
Juniperus communis | Juniper, Common juniper | 3 | 3 |
Juniperus communis nana | Juniper | 3 | 3 |
Lactuca serriola | Prickly Lettuce | 2 | 3 |
Lactuca virosa | Wild Lettuce, Bitter lettuce | 1 | 3 |
Larrea tridentata | Creosote Bush - Chaparral | 2 | 2 |
Leucas cephalotes | Spiderwort | 1 | 2 |
Levisticum officinale | Lovage, Garden lovage | 3 | 3 |
Linum hybrids | Perennial Flax | 4 | 4 |
Linum usitatissimum | Flax, Common flax | 4 | 3 |
Lycopodium clavatum | Common Club Moss, Running clubmoss | 0 | 3 |
Lycopodium complanatum | Ground Pine, Groundcedar | 0 | 3 |
Malva moschata | Musk Mallow | 5 | 2 |
Malva neglecta | Dwarf Mallow, Common mallow | 4 | 2 |
Malva pusilla | Dwarf Mallow, Low mallow | 4 | 2 |
Manilkara zapota | Sapodilla, Nispero | 5 | 2 |
Maranta arundinacea | Arrowroot | 4 | 3 |
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum | Ice Plant, Common iceplant | 3 | 1 |
Monarda didyma | Bergamot, Scarlet beebalm, Horsemint, Oswego Tea, Bee Balm | 3 | 2 |
Mondia whitei | Mondia, White's Ginger | 3 | 4 |
Morinda citrifolia | Noni, Indian Mulberry | 3 | 4 |
Morus alba | White Mulberry, Common Mulberry, | 4 | 3 |
Morus alba multicaulis | White Mulberry | 4 | 3 |
Morus nigra | Black Mulberry | 5 | 3 |
Myrtus communis | Myrtle, Foxtail Myrtle | 3 | 3 |
Nelumbo nucifera | Sacred Water Lotus, Sacred lotus | 4 | 3 |
Oldenlandia diffusa | Snake-Needle Grass | 0 | 3 |
Oryza hybrids | Perennial Rice | 4 | 2 |
Oryza sativa | Rice, Common Rice | 5 | 2 |
Oxalis corniculata | Yellow Sorrel, Creeping woodsorrel | 2 | 2 |
Oxalis exilis | Least Yellow Sorrel, Shady woodsorrel | 2 | 2 |
Oxytenanthera abyssynica | Savanah Bamboo | 2 | 2 |
Parietaria judaica | Pellitory Of The Wall, Spreading pellitory | 2 | 3 |
Parietaria officinalis | Pellitory Of The Wall, Upright pellitory | 2 | 3 |
Parthenium integrifolium | Wild Quinine | 0 | 2 |
Pedicularis resupinata | Lousewort | 1 | 2 |
Peganum harmala | Syrian Rue, Harmal peganum | 1 | 3 |
Petasites hybridus | Butterbur, Pestilence wort | 0 | 3 |
Petroselinum crispum | Parsley | 4 | 4 |
Peumus boldus | Boldu, Boldo | 2 | 3 |
Phaseolus vulgaris | French Bean, Kidney bean | 5 | 2 |
Phellodendron amurense | Amur Cork Tree, Chinese Corktree | 1 | 3 |
Phellodendron chinense | Chinese Cork Tree | 0 | 3 |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed, American common reed, Hybrid common reed, European common reed, Subtropical common re | 5 | 2 |
Physalis alkekengi | Winter Cherry, Strawberry groundcherry,Ground Cherry, Chinese Lantern | 2 | 2 |
Physalis heterophylla | Clammy Ground Cherry, Rowell's groundcherry | 3 | 1 |
Phytolacca acinosa | Indian Poke | 2 | 3 |
Picea glauca | White Spruce, Black Hills Spruce, Canadian Spruce | 2 | 2 |
Pimpinella saxifraga | Burnet Saxifrage, Solidstem burnet saxifrage | 2 | 2 |
Pinellia pedatisecta | Hu Zhang | 0 | 2 |
Pinus elliottii | Slash Pine | 2 | 2 |
Pistacia terebinthus | Terebinth, Cyprus turpentine | 2 | 2 |
Plantago ovata | Blond Psyllium, Desert Indianwheat | 2 | 3 |
Pogontherum crinitum | | 0 | 1 |
Polygonum multiflorum | He Shou Wu, Tuber fleeceflower | 2 | 3 |
Polypodium lineare | | 0 | 1 |
Polytrichum juniperinum | Hair-Cap Moss, Juniper polytrichum moss | 0 | 2 |
Populus alba | White Poplar | 1 | 2 |
Populus nigra | Black Poplar, Lombardy poplar | 1 | 3 |
Populus tremuloides | American Aspen - Poplar, Quaking aspen | 1 | 3 |
Ptaeroxylon obliquum | Sneezewood | 0 | 2 |
Pyrola rotundifolia | Round-Leaved Wintergreen | 0 | 2 |
Quassia amara | Bitterwood, Amargo Bark | 2 | 4 |
Rosa laevigata | Cherokee Rose | 2 | 3 |
Rubus allegheniensis | Alleghany Blackberry, Graves' blackberry | 3 | 2 |
Rubus coreanus | Korean Bramble | 1 | 2 |
Rumex acetosella | Sheeps Sorrel, Common sheep sorrel | 4 | 3 |
Saccharum officinarum | Sugarcane, Purple Sugar Cane | 4 | 2 |
Santalum spicatum | West Australian Sandalwood | 2 | 2 |
Saururus chinensis | | 0 | 2 |
Schisandra chinensis | Magnolia Vine, Wu Wei Zi | 4 | 5 |
Schisandra sphenanthera | | 2 | 5 |
Scutellaria baicalensis | Baikal Skullcap - Huang-Qin | 1 | 3 |
Semiaquilegia adoxoides | Tian Kui | 0 | 2 |
Senecio nemorensis | | 1 | 1 |
Serenoa repens | Saw Palmetto | 2 | 3 |
Smilax bona-nox | Greenbriar, Saw greenbrier, Dunes saw greenbrier | 3 | 2 |
Smilax china | China Root | 4 | 3 |
Smilax officinalis | Honduran sarsaparilla | 2 | 4 |
Solidago canadensis | Canadian Goldenrod, Shorthair goldenrod, Harger's goldenrod, Rough Canada goldenrod, Common Goldenro | 2 | 2 |
Solidago odora | Sweet Goldenrod, Anisescented goldenrod, Chapman's goldenrod | 2 | 2 |
Solidago virgaurea | Goldenrod | 1 | 3 |
Sophora flavescens | Ku Shen, Shrubby sophora | 0 | 3 |
Sophora tonkinensis | | 0 | 2 |
Sorghum bicolor | Sorghum, Common wild sorghum, Grain sorghum, Sudangrass | 4 | 2 |
Spergularia rubra | Sandwort, Red sandspurry | 1 | 1 |
Spinacia oleracea | Spinach | 3 | 2 |
Tabernanthe iboga | Iboga | 0 | 4 |
Tamarindus indica | Tamarind | 4 | 3 |
Taraxacum officinale | Dandelion - Kukraundha, Kanphool, Common dandelion, Dandelion | 4 | 3 |
Tectona grandis | Teak | 2 | 2 |
Thespesia populnea | Portia Tree, Aden Apple, Indian Tulip Tree | 3 | 3 |
Thespesia populneoides | Tulip Tree; Portia Tree; Pacific Rosewood | 3 | 3 |
Tinospora cordifolia | Kanda Amrta | 2 | 4 |
Tithonia diversifolia | Mexican Sunflower | 0 | 3 |
Trillium erectum | Beth Root - Indian Balm, Red trillium, Wakerobin, Purple Trillium | 2 | 3 |
Tropaeolum majus | Nasturtium, Indian Cress | 4 | 3 |
Turnera diffusa aphrodisiaca | Damiana | 1 | 3 |
Ulmus rubra | Slippery Elm | 2 | 5 |
Uncaria guianensis | Cat's Claw | 2 | 4 |
Uncaria tomentosa | Cat's Claw | 2 | 4 |
Urtica dioica | Stinging Nettle, California nettle | 5 | 5 |
Urtica pilulifera | Roman Nettle | 3 | 3 |
Urtica urens | Annual Nettle | 3 | 3 |
Vaccinium myrtillus | Bilberry, Whortleberry | 4 | 3 |
Vaccinium oxycoccos | Small Cranberry | 4 | 1 |
Viola odorata | Sweet Violet, English Violet, Garden Violet, Sweet Violet, Florist's Violet | 5 | 3 |
Vitis aestivalis | Summer Grape, Long grape | 3 | 1 |
Vitis labrusca | Northern Fox Grape, Fox grape | 3 | 1 |
Vitis vulpina | Frost Grape | 3 | 1 |
Combretum imberbe | Leadwood Tree, Ivory tree | 2 | 2 |
Prunus africana | Pygeum | 0 | 5 |