WILD GREENS CALENDAR for Southeastern Pennsylvania Region
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This calendar gives a generalized harvest calendar; there may be many exceptions to it.Some plants need careful preparation, others can be eaten raw.
SPRING –MARCH / APRIL / MAY
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SUMMER –
JUNE / JULY / AUGUST /
FALL –
SEPTEMBER / OCT / NOVEMBER /
WINTER –
DECEMBER / JANUARY / FEBRUARY
- burdock
- chickweed, common
- chickweed, fuzzy, mouse-eared
- cleaver / bedstraw
- clover, white and pink
- cress, field pennycress
- cress, spring, bitter
- cress, water
- cress, winter, yellow rocket
- daylily
- dandelion
- Devil’s Walking Stick
- dock / patience
- garlic mustard
- goutweed
- groundsel
- hosta
- Japanese knotweed
- knotgrass
- lesser celandine
- mallow, common
- mints, deadnettle
- mints, henbit
- mugwort
- onion grass
- plantains, narrow and wide
- pokeweed / Inkberry
- spring beauty
- stinging nettles
- thistles, common
- violets, wild
- amaranth
- amaranth / mat
- amaranth / spiny
- asiatic dayflower
- asparagus
- bamboo
- chameleon
- cardoon
- carpetweed
- carrion / smilax
- carrot
- chamomile
- chamomile / pineapple weed
- chicory
- clover, red
- clover, white
- cress, pepper
- dandelion
- daylily
- devil’s walking stick
- dock / bitter
- dock / curly
- dock / yellow
- epazote / wormseed
- fern, ostrich, fiddleheads
- garlic
- goldenrods
- goutweed
- grapevine
- grass (filter fiber)
- grass, crab
- groundnut, american / hopniss
- groundsel
- hollyhock
- hosta
- hyacinth bean vine
- jerusalem artichoke
- knotweed / japaneese
- knotgrass
- kudzu
- lady’s thumb / smartweed
- lamb’s quarters
- lettuce, prickly
- lettuce, bitter
- mallow, common
- mallow, high
- mallow, hollyhock
- mallow, marsh
- mallow, rose of sharon
- mallow, velvet leaf
- mints, bee balm
- mints, ground ivy / creeping charlie
- mints, horsemint
- mint, licorice
- mints, mountain mint
- mints, spearmint
- mugwort / sagewort / wormwood
- mustard, shepard’s purse, chinese cress
- nettles, clearweed
- nettles, false
- nettles, stinging
- nettles, wood
- mustard, field
- parsnip / wild
- parsnip / cow
- parsnip / water
- plantain, broad leaf
- plantain, narrow leaf
- poor man's pepper / peppergrass
- porcelain berry vine leaf
- potato vine, wild, I pomoea
- prickly pear, eastern / indian fig
- primrose, evening
- purslane
- quickweed
- ramps
- radish
- rose of sharon
- salsify
- sassafras
- spicebush
- sedum
- skunk cabbage – needs more research
- smilax / greenbrier
- solomon’s seal
- sorrel, sheep
- sorrel, wood
- sow thistle
- spiderwort
- strawberry, indian
- strawberry, wild
- strawberry, wild barren
- sunflower, wild
- thistle, bull
- thistle, milk
- virginia waterleaf
- winter green
- woodland lettuce / canada / yellow
- yarrow
- amaranth (fading fast)
- asiatic dayflower
- burdock
- chickweed, common
- chickweed, fuzzy, mouse-eared
- cleaver / bedstraw
- cress, spring, bitter
- cress, water
- cress, winter, yellow rocket
- dandelion
- dock / patience
- garlic mustard
- goutweed
- groundsel
- quickweed
- knotgrass
- lamb’s quarters (fading fast)
- mallows
- mints (ground ivy, deadnettle, henbit)
- mugwort
- mustards
- nettles, stinging
- onion grass
- plantains
- sorrrels (wood, sheep)
- sow thistle
- thistles
- strawberry, Indian
- violets, wild
- chickweed, common
- chickweed, fuzzy, mouse-eared
- cleaver / bedstraw
- clover
- cress, winter, yellow rocket
- dandelions
- dock, patience
- knotgrass
- garlic mustard
- groundsel
- mallow, common
- onion grass
- mallow, common
- plantains (narrow leaf)