| COMMON NAME: |
LATIN NAME |
CAUTION |
HOW TO USE |
| Chickweed |
Stellaria media |
Wash well |
Salad leaf or cooked as spinach. |
| Comfrey |
Symphytum offinale |
Wash well |
Best used as fritters, rich mealy texture. |
| Cornsalad |
Valerianella locusta |
|
Winter salad. Very hardy. pea-resistant, self-seeding. |
| Dandelion |
Taraxacum officinale |
Wash well |
Leaves for bitter salad, or cooked and eaten cold, dressed with oil
and lemon. Roots roasted and ground as coffee substitute. |
| Dillweed |
Anethun graveolens |
|
Seeds for flavouring pickles. Leaf as digestive. |
| Dock |
Rumex spp. |
Try not to scatter. Hard to eradicate once established |
Leaf as sorrel. |
| Good King Henry |
Chenopodiun bonus-henricus |
Easy to distinguish from other goosefoots |
Use fleshy, soft leaf as spinach. |
| Ground elder |
Aegopodium podagraria |
|
Young leaves edible raw or cooked like spinach. Thick mulch produces
delicious shoots. |
| Hairy bittercress |
Cardamine hirsuta |
Wash well |
Identical in taste to watercress-and available everywhere. |
| Fungi |
Various |
Use good book to ensure correct identification |
According to type, generally stewed or fried, often stored dried. |
| Horseradish |
Armoracia rusticana |
|
Pungent root used for sauce or pickle. |
| Jack-by-the-hedge |
Alliaria petiolara |
|
Leaves taste of delicate bitter garlic - with no bad breath! |
| juniper |
Juniperus communis |
|
Berries for tisanc and flavouring, e.g. venison. |
| Lamb's quarters (fat hen) |
Chenopodium alba |
|
Spinach substitute. |
| Mullein |
Verbascum spp. |
Hay-fever sufferers-avoid |
Flowers added to salad. |
| Purslane |
Portulaca oleracea |
|
Salad leaf. |
| Rocket |
Eruca sativa |
|
Leaf in salad - tastes of roast pork. |
| Salad burnet |
Sanguisorba minor |
|
Leaf in salad - tastes of cucumber. |
| Salsify |
Tragopogon porrifoliurn- |
|
Winter roots boiled, baked or soup. Young leaves for salad. |
| Samphire or glasswort |
Salicornia europaca |
Watch out for sea tides |
Young plants only. Boil with vinegar, serve hot with butter. Cook
and pickle. No need for salt. |
| Seakale |
Crambe maritima |
|
Best blanched, can happen naturally when sand or shingle blows over
town. Pick shoots 4-5in long. |
| Stinging nettle |
Urtica dioica |
Use gloves to pick |
Pick young tips only to use as spinach, or for soup. |
| Watercress |
Nasturtium officinale |
Beware polluted water |
Leaf for salad. |
