Withlacoochee Permaculture Guild

Hungry? Just take a walk outside. Nature is a grocery store! It's actually better because it's free and foraging requires no energy inputs (except for the minimal energy expending walking around and preparing the food). I have identified around 30 edible plants within a 20 minute walk from my house and posted pictures, parts edible, season and habitat.

Picture	Name	Part edible	Habitat	Season
	Smilax	vegetative shoot	woods	spring, summer
	Amaranth	leaf	fields	spring, summer, fall
	Sonchus	leaf	fields	spring
	Bull thistle	flower, leaf	fields	spring
	Florida betony	tuber	fields	summer, fall
	Spanish needle	leaf	fields	spring, summer, fall
	Muscadine grape	berry	woods	fall
	Blackberry	berry, leaf	fields	spring
	Caesar weed	leaf (cooked)	woods	summer, fall
	Oak	nut (soaked)	woods	fall
	Wood sorrel	leaf	fields	year round
	Usnea lichen	all parts	woods
	Cladonia lichen	all parts (soaked)	woods
	Elderberry	berry (not the seed)	woods, wetlands
	Pokewood (controversial)	young plant (cooked)	fields	spring
	Mushrooms	all parts (cooked)	woods	year round
	Saw palmetto	berry, heart, shoot	woods	year round
	Spiderwort	all parts	fields	spring
	Pickerelweed	all parts?	wetlands
	Dandelion	all parts	fields	spring, summer
	Wild violets	all parts	woods
	Yucca	flowers	fields	spring
	Opuntia cactus	pad, fruit	fields	year round
	Pennywort	all parts	wetlands	year round
	Crepis	all parts (cooked)	fields
	Passion flower	fruit	woods, fields	summer
	Blueberry	berry	woods	spring
	Beautyberry	berry	fields
	Lambsquarters	leaf	fields
	Purslane	leaf	fields
	Persimmon	fruit	fields
	Skunkvine	leaf (cooked)	fields, woods

Check out eattheweeds.com for more info on Florida foraging.