Seasonal Foraging in Yorkshire by Lea Eyre at Make It Wild

Baron strawberry can make tea with leaves. 

Common sorrel red flowers like dock leaves, use on salads. Starts rounded too then comes to a point as it grows, like an arrow head. Dock leaves have a red tinge. Selenide similar leaves but more rounded with veins the roots are good but not the leaves. Lords and ladies larger version but poisonous, won’t kill you but will make you poorly. Vein round the outside. Grows close to wild garlic. 

Dandelion. Leaves bitter but edible good for digestion. Flower head for fritters or sprinkle on pasta. Root roost then grind to make coffee or use as a root veg. 

Dogs mercury poisonous. 

Hairy bitter reds like cress, lots of stems and circular leaves tiny white flowers. All edible

Opposite leaf saxifrage. golden Yellow flower stubbly 

Wood sorrel. Heart shaped, 3 leaves with a crease, fine stem red pinky stem at the bottom. Similar to a clover which has round leaf. Leaves fold in on themselves after dark.

Scarlet elf cup. Fungus. Grow on deaf trees. Orange variety also safe. Jan and Feb

King Alfred’s cake hold an ember not to eat. 

Gorse flowers good on salads

Red dead nettle member of mint family, square stem. All mints are ok to eat but not always tasty. 

Speedwell blue

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