Find: farms,yards.growing with in woodlands.

Description:Bark is smooth and grey with darker, twisted vertical lines. Bark becomes rough and develops scales with age. Twigs are slender with narrow appressed buds that are twisted with a tapered point, and typically have 5 scales.

Edible parts and uses:edible berry.

Precautions:no side effects.

Gooseberry-Northern-Swamp

Find:Meadow,feild,older farms and woodlands.

Description:3 to 5 indented lobes and a heart-shaped base. Lobes are cleft 1/3 or more toward the mid-rib. The leaf stems (petioles) are hairy with tiny short glands. Lower leaf surfaces and edges are hairy. One to three leaves occur in a cluster.is a cluster of 1 to 3 greenish-yellow flowers arising on hairy stalks from near the leaf axis, occasionally solitary. Flower stalks are not jointed, unlike the currants that are in this same plant family.

Edible parts and uses:Fruit.

Precautions:no side effects.

Grape-Riverbank

Find:wild grapes can be found along streams, ponds, roads, and in open woods clambering up trees.

Description:Wild grapes use tendrils to anchor onto branches or other surfaces. Their bark is gray/brown and rather shredded looking. They tend to grow higher and thicker than their cultivated counterparts, yet another reason they are termed wild grape weeds since grown unchecked they can overtake other plant species.

Edible parts and uses:Grapes and leaves.

Precautions:no side effects.

Hawthorn

Find:often grow in large, dense thickets.

Description:There is a main trunk that on average, at maturity, can reach between 15 and 20 cm (about 8”) in diametre. Hawthorn bark is gray with shallow, longitudinal fissures with narrow ridges. In younger trees, the bark is smooth and gray, as seen on a branch of the hawthorn . As they age, the bark darkens into a shade of brown and develops fissures and ridges.Hawthorns have thorny branches. The thorns are smaller branches that arise from a larger branch, and are typically 1 to 3 cm long. These thorns tend to be sharp. This deciduous tree has alternate branching, in which the twigs (or thorns) are not directly opposite each other.The common hawthorn typically grows 3 to 6 metres (10 to 20') in height.

Edible parts and uses:Leaves can be gathered in spring for use in salads or at any time (before they change colour) for teas.Flower petals can be used in salads in spring. Hawthorn berries typically taste better after a frost but can be used before a frost depending on your taste buds. Berries can be used to make jams, jellies, and in baked goods. Leaves, flowers and berries can be used to make a tea. Use hawthorn tea to make rice, quinoa or couscous.

Precautions:There are no “poisonous” Hawthorns except for the seeds.

Lingonberry

Find:thrive in both full sun and partial shade.

Description:Harvest of August to mid September.

Edible parts and uses:Berries or made into Schnapps,syrups,jelly,jam,preserves.

Precautions:The berries need to be cooked first before they can be eaten. They are not tasty raw.

Mulberries

Find:It can be found in older fields, roadsides, forest edges, urban environments, and other disturbed areas. It prefers a warm, moist, well-drained loamy soil in a sunny position.most frequently in mixed-hardwood forests.

Description:Mulberries can have both male and female flowers on the same tree, but they can also be on separate trees. Leaves are about 8 cm long, coarse, heart shaped, with toothed edges. Can be hairy on top and downy underneath. Some lower leaves and those on new shoots can be lobed, or with deep incisions.

Edible parts and uses:Mulberries can be eaten raw or made into luscious preserves, pies, and wine.

Precautions:For those who can't tolerate salicylates, blueberries might cause a rash, headaches or a host of gastrointestinal symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, reflux, bloating, gas, diarrhea and constipation. Blueberry juice is especially high in salicylates.

Nannyberry

Find:part shade, sun; moist soil; hardwood forest openings, swamps, fens, wet meadows, lake shores, river banks.

Description:Dense, rounded flower clusters 2 to 3½ inches across at tips of one-year old branches. Flowers are creamy white, about ¼ inch across, bell to saucer-shaped with 5 rounded lobes. In the center is a single, short style and 5 long, yellow-tipped stamens that extend far beyond the mouth of the floral tube. The calyx around the base of the flower has a short tube and 5 small, triangular lobes. Flower stalks are hairless and green to red.Leaves are simple and opposite, lance-elliptic to nearly oval, 2 to 4 inches long, 1¼ to 2¼ inches, wide with an abrupt taper to a sharply pointed tip, and rounded at the base. The leaf stalk is ½ to 1¼ inch long, typically flattened with irregular wings. Surfaces are hairless, the upper surface dark green and shiny, lower surface paler, mostly smooth or with very tiny scale-like covering. Edges have crowded, short, sharp teeth.Twigs are grayish brown, slender and straight, the buds pinkish-brown, slender and up to ½ inch long with flower buds appearing swollen at the base.Older bark becomes dark gray with deeply checkered furrows, lower stems up to 5½ inches diameter. Main stems are typically multiple from base, often forming think colonies from root suckers. 

Edible parts and uses: Fruit

Precautions:no side effects.

Prairie Ground Cherry

Find:part shade, sun; sandy prairies, waste areas, open woods, thickets.

Description:Leaves are up to 4 inches long and 3 inches wide, alternately attached, softly hairy with a few coarse teeth around the edges and a stalk averaging 1 inch long. The shape is somewhat irregular, but is generally egg-shaped with a rounded base and pointed tip. The color is often a bit yellowish green and the edges may be a little wavy. Stems are branched, weakly angled, and covered in long soft hairs.Fruit is a green berry that turns yellow when ripe. The persistent calyx inflates and becomes a papery shell shaped like an inverted tear drop that swells up and dries to tan as the fruit matures.

Edible parts and uses:Berries

Precautions:Unripe ground cherries are sour and contain solanine and solanidine, which are toxic compounds that in small amounts can cause nassia and diarrhea, plant are toxic except for the ripe fruit.

Raspberry Stemless-Wild Red

Find:Full sun to partial shade.

Description:3 to 4 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide.Summer to fall for harvest.

Edible parts and uses:Berries and leaves.

Precautions:no side effects.

Red-Osier Dogwood

Find:part shade, sun; open wetlands.also been used somewhat frequently in landscape plantings.

Description:Leaves are simple and opposite, 2 to 4 inches long, 1 to 3 inches wide, lance to egg-shaped, the tip tapered to point, the base rounded to a 1/3 to 1 inch stalk. The upper surface is dark green with 5 or 6 lateral veins per side, smooth or variably covered in fine appressed hairs; the lower surface is paler, more typically with short, soft hairs. Edges are smooth.Twigs are reddish green during the growing season becoming deep red in the dormant season and flecked with an occasional grayish white lenticel (pore). The surface is mostly smooth and shiny or with very fine, straight, appressed hairs on the very tip internodes. Older bark lower on the lower stems can become roughish gray in part. Stems are typically in dense multiples from the ground, much branched above.Fruit is a round, berry-like drupe, about ¼ inch diameter, white, the cluster stalks green to dull purplish red.

Edible Parts and uses:The berries are somewhat palatable, some people believe the whiter berries are less bitter than the bluer berries.