Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

Found in dry, arid areas where it can get plenty of sunlight, this unique-looking plant has broad leaves with small spikes that sprout from a central point. The gel inside is useful for healing burns, digestive and oral health, as a laxative, and to lower blood sugar and cholesterol. It also helps with relieving symptoms of ulcers, amenorrhoea, and jaundice.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer

Growing in moist, open, alpine areas, this spindly grass has puffy white bells that form when it blooms. A dried poultice can be used to help digestion problems such as diarrhea when taken by mouth, ease mouth, and throat affections, and when applied directly can help soothe wounds.

Edible Medicinal
Season: Rainy season (tropical)

Ashwagandha is a medicinal herb that may offer several health benefits, such as improved blood sugar, inflammation, mood, memory, stress and anxiety, as well as a boost in muscle strength and fertility. Otherwise known as "winter cherry," it can tolerate direct sunlight, but prefers partial shade and cooler temperatures. Most likely found in temperate region, but is tropical in nature.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

This lily is often found in Sagebrush, more open woods, mountain slopes, and damp meadows at mid to high elevations. Typically blooms in spring just after snow melts. Roots may be dug up as long as the plant is green. Patches can be phenomenally large. It can be used as a wet dressing on sores. The bulb is edible with no apparent side effects.

Edible Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

A small vine-like bush growing in mountainous, forests, glades, and cutover areas, as well as in brushwood thickets. It can be used to help with headaches, muscle spasms, menopause, or gastrointestinal disorders. However! Use sparingly, as it is also dangerously toxic. Similar to other berries, the fruits can be found in summer and autumn.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

A tall branching plant found in moist partial shade. The dried roots are used to end/avoid pregnancy if used within 1-2 weeks, or it can cause issues. It can help with kidney and joint issues, sore throat, labor, snake bites, uterus issues, and nervous disorders. Side effects: dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, low blood pressure, and changes in heart rhythm.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

These brambling vines produce fruit in the form of edible berries in late summer and early autumn. Root bark is hard to separate but can be used for multiple conditions when dry. The leaves are also useful. Drying is only required for long-term storage. Both are a good remedy for diarrhea. The root is more astringent. Externally, they can help with mouth ulcers and gum inflammation.

Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

A small yellow flower that is found in or near water. The entirety of the plant is diuretic and a mild astringent. Used as a poultice to treat wounds. Blooms and produces fruit in late summer and early autumn.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

These berries are found along forest floors or near swamps. The berries can be eaten to prevent eye conditions and for treating ulcers, urinary tract infections, colic, and fever. Blueberry is also used for improving circulation and as a laxative. The dried fruit and leaves are used for diarrhea.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Summer, Autumn

Found in open space with lots of sun, this plant produces purple flowers and drooping seed pods. Dried flowers and leaves can be used for boosting the immune system, as a diuretic, kidney issues, and assist lactating mothers. Treats pneumonia, urinary tract issues, mouth ulcers, throat infections, depression, low blood pressure, allergies, arthritis, gout, skin wounds and infections, itchy/inflamed skin, gastritis, and insect bites.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Found in vast, open flatlands with access to sunlight, this plant has broad leaves and grows upward. In spring and summer, it forms white pods of flowers. Ingested leaves and flowers strengthen veins and help with diabetes. May increase the risk of sunburn in wolves with skin issues.

Medicinal
Found during: Summer, Autumn

Thriving in moist and shaded areas, commonly mountainous districts, this spindly plant forms ovular clumps of flowers at its tips in summer and autumn. The root acts as an astringent and tonic, though the plant itself can also be used. Useful for both external and internal wounds when applied as a poultice.

Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer

Found in dry, arid areas where it can get plenty of sunlight, this unique-looking plant has broad leaves with small spikes that sprout from a central point. The gel inside is useful for healing burns, digestive and oral health, as a laxative, and to lower blood sugar and cholesterol. It also helps with relieving symptoms of ulcers, amenorrhoea, and jaundice.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Often found in sunny, well-drained areas, this small white flowering weed grows in large clusters on spindly shoots. All parts of the plant can be used for asthma, colic, fevers, inflammations, nausea, nervous complaints, and skin diseases. It is resilient, hard to kill, and spreads easily from its starting point when planted.

Edible
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Checkerbloom is a flowering plant that grows in large vertical stalks. The purple flowers are vivid and smell almost sickly sweet. These flowers are an uncommon commodity. They do not have any known medical properties and are not toxic. It does attract a lot of butterflies and bugs and if planted with other herbs, can help retain water in the soil. One could eat them but you'd have to ask... why?

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring

Everything that grows above ground is edible, nutritious and aids in the following; slows down cancer growth, remedies colds and flu, high blood pressure, removes parasitic worms, boost mood (aids against depression), eye health, and inflammation.

Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Growing in half sun/shade and moist soil, the comfrey is a flowering plant related to borage. It is much taller relative to the borage above. As a poultice, it can help ease sore muscles, relieve soreness of tendons, relieve pain and itching from bug bites, and help heal bruises. When given internally it can help ulcers, diarrhea, and upset stomach.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

This very common flower grows in rich soil or rocky places. It is a moderately tall daisy-like plant with pink-purple petals that drop down and give it a "cone" shape. Petals, roots, and leaves can be dried and used for treating inflammation, colds, flu, bacterial infections, fungal infections, anxiety, pain, cancer symptoms, as well as it working as an antibiotic.

Medicinal
Found during: Summer, Autumn

A common low-growing and thin weed found in sun or shade, this flowering plant puts off spiky-looking blue flowers. Both the dried flowers and leaves can be used for indigestion, regulating the gall bladder and liver, boost the immune system, washing out wounds, mouth ulcers/bleeding gums, constipation, infections around the eye, and soothe irritated/inflamed skin. It has antibacterial and astringent properties.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Summer, Autumn

This low-growing bushy plant is found in full sun in areas such as lakes, bogs, swamps, and shores of cold lakes. The berries are produced in summer and autumn. Berries can be used to help prevent or treat urinary tract infections and provides antioxidants for sustaining good health. They are terribly bitter, however, and not everyone will enjoy them.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer

A fern with thick leaflets, it can be found in partial shade, shade, swamps, marshes, and moist to wet woods. The fiddleheads it produces are edible. The male of this fern can be used and is most effective in treating tapeworms. Root stalks are good against infections, inflammation, viral infections, digestive issues, parasites, and fever.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Loving full sunlight and growing in mostly open places, everyone knows a daisy. With yellow centers and white petals, these flowers are extremely common. Dried flowers and leaves can be used to treat or ease coughs, lung infections, liver problems, kidney problems, swelling, inflammation, and wounds or skin diseases when applied to the skin.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

A commonly found weed in open grasslands, Dandelion is often used as an herbal remedy due to its effectiveness in treating a wide range of ailments from skin disease and diabetes, to jaundice, constipation, and liver disease. It also protects against cancer, improves bone health, and promotes weight loss. All parts of the plant are edible, if rather bitter, with the leaves being especially nutritious.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer

Found in the Tundra and Mountains primarily where it is used to surviving cold weather. Medicinal properties include treating respiratory illnesses such as coughing, stomach pains, and diarrhea. Edelweiss can also be used as an anti-inflammatory. It is part of the daisy family.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

A leafy bush that sprouts flowers in the spring and berries in late summer and autumn. It is most commonly found in lightly brushy areas where it gets direct sunlight for part of the day. Flowers and berries are edible. It is an antioxidant, eases flu symptoms, alleviates nasal congestion and cough, helps reduce fever, and may alleviate symptoms of allergies and asthma. Can aid in digestion and moving constipation.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Low growing bush that flowers white or light pink and grows into blue or blackberries in the autumn. Only the berries are edible. Can help promote strength after childbirth. Can help topically with infection and inflammation, clean wounds, aid in intestinal health by preventing gas, and treat diabetes. Eating too many can lead to diarrhea and vomiting.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Found in meadows, grasslands, and partly shady areas, this plant is common. It has many elongated oval leaves on a stalk. The leaves and flowers can be used. Cann alleviates the loss of appetite, upset stomach, constipation, inflammation of the stomach, and may also be helpful for other internal pains.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer

A small spindly and flowering plant that has bunches of yellow flowers. Smaller than yarrow, with different flower shapes. The leaves are trifoliate and have many smaller lobes. Can aid in the relief of chest colds, coughs, the flu, and pneumonia. If brave, roots can be burned and inhaled to help asthma.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Feverfew is used for the treatment of fevers, migraine headaches, rheumatoid arthritis, stomach aches, toothaches, insect bites, infertility, and labor during birth. It also reduces the release of an inflammatory substance, serotonin, from your blood cells and slows down the production of a chemical transmitter in your body called histamine. It also slows blood clotting.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Preferring moist, rich soils and shaded areas, this flowering plant can be seen growing in tall, thin stalks. The flowers look like small cups and are typically red or of a reddish hue. Leaves are broad with many points. It can alleviate bad dreams, restore appetite, and treat a wide variety of sicknesses.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

Grows in open spaces and looks like very thin grass, smells of garlic only when damaged. Toxic to canines, this plant does have some uses. It prefers shady places. In small amounts when nothing else is available it may help with high blood pressure, flea and tick infestations, and heart health.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

This beautiful flower comes in a variety of colors including red, pink, violet, and white. They are most often found in meadows, grassy areas, and more open forests. its astringent properties make it an effective remedy for nosebleeds, diarrhea, excessive mucus, or similar issues.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

This stalk-like flower produces what appears to be bunches of blooms in a cone-like shape. True to its name, the "rods" of the flower is a golden yellow. The leaves and blossoms can be used to treat a variety of hemorrhages and fevers. The blossoms can be used to clean the skin, and are cathartic and styptic (capable of stopping blood flow).

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

Ginkgo biloba is used to treat altitude sickness (prevention), cerebral vascular insufficiency, cognitive disorders, dementia, dizziness/vertigo, intermittent claudication, macular degeneration/glaucoma, memory loss, premenstrual syndrome, sexual dysfunction, and as a vasodilator (blood thinner).

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Non-edible, toxic plant! A flowering bush-like tree produces yellow flowers in the shapes of trumpets. Eating this plant can cause disturbing hallucinations, paralysis, memory loss, tachycardia, and death.

Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

A low-growing plant that likes partly shaded areas and forest floors. It has broad sectioned leaves that resemble the shape of a star. Each plant produces a single white flower that grows into a red berry. Aids a wide variety of ailments. Can be applied to the skin to help rashes, ulcers, infections, itching, eczema, dandruff, ringworm, herpes, or other skin issues. Can be used in the ears to help ear infections. Can also help symptoms of respiratory tract infections, colds, flu, stuffy nose, allergies, digestive disorders (stomach pain and swelling), peptic ulcers, colitis, diarrhea, constipation, hemorrhoids, and intestinal gas.

Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

Found primarily in thickets, woodlands, heathland, and rocky slopes, this small cedar looks a lot like long-stemmed moss. It contains lycopodine which is poisonous and causes paralysis.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Boasting wavy rounded leaves, ground Ivy is typically found in disturbed areas, open woods, forest edges, damp soil, or shaded areas. It is used as an appetite stimulant. Ground Ivy contains a volatile oil that aids in relieving congestion and inflammation of mucous membranes associated with colds, flu, and sinusitis.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Roddick plant that looks a lot like grass with many longer stems/leaves coming off the main stalk. Found in sandy or loamy soil in open or wooded areas along streams, flats, in seepage, and on wet ledges. Any part above ground can be used for kidney and bladder stones, urinary tract infections, incontinence, and general disturbances of the urinary tract. Additionally helps promote bone growth and density, acts as an anti-inflammatory and lowers blood sugar levels. As a poultice, it can help regrow fur and aid in thickening hairs where they are thinning for various reasons (ex: wounds, illness or age). Due to having a relatively high nicotine concentration, dependence on the herb can prove problematic with addictive properties.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer

This beautiful yellow plant can be found in dry, gravely soils, fields, or where the sun is commonly uncovered. It can be identified by its five rounded petals that are positioned clockwise. The herb is most known for its use to help depression, but can also be used as an antiseptic by laying the leaves upon an open wound.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

This is a pretty flower with an orange and red bloom that is a favorite of bees and hummingbirds. It grows tall on wavy stalks and has broad, long leaves. It can be used to treat poison ivy rash, promote blood flow, help post-childbirth pain, joint pain, ease bruises and swelling, and can be used as an antidote to fish poisoning. It is often found in dense, pure stands in floodplain forests and around forested edges of marshes and bogs.

Edible Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer

This elegant fern looks sharp with many leaflets. It grows in clusters in moist to mesic woodlands, rocky ravines, shaded seeps, and in the edges of swamps. Eating dried leaves can help with parasites such as tapeworms. In low amounts, it will not be harmful but large quantities have a toxic effect. Symptoms include convulsions and potentially death. It can be used to relieve labor pains, body aches, coughs and colds, parasites, respiratory issues, digestive problems, and constipation. It can also be used to speed up wound healing.

Edible MedicinalToxic
Found during: Spring, Summer

Toxic in large doses. Mild exposure to lavender is not generally harmful and may help with anxiety, depression, stress, headaches, nervous disorders, improve sleep, reduce blood pressure, and exhaustion. Herbalists treat skin ailments, such as fungal infections (like candidiasis), wounds, eczema, fur growth, treating fungal infections, and acne. It is also used in a healing bath for joint and muscle pain. It's best used topical and as aromatherapy. Lavender poisoning is possible when large quantities are ingested and may cause vomiting, reduced appetite, inability to defecate, a swollen and tender abdomen, and fever.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer

This fern likes well-shaded areas and moist forests, forest edges, or ravines. It is often found where other mosses are and do well on cliff faces, mossy rocks, and moss-covered trees. It looks similar to lady fern but has thicker and slightly more rounded leaflets. The root is edible but the rest of the plant is similar to lady fern - except that it is more toxic. Use at your own risk.

Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer

The beautiful mariposa lily is a stunning flowering plant. It grows in bunches with long stems and elongated smooth leaves. The flower has a mottled yellow interior and orange spots on each of its three petals. It can be white or pink. Mostly found in grassland, chaparral, woodlands, and low elevation forest ecosystems in sandy and granitic soils. This plant is highly toxic!

Edible Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

This plant grows on stalks and has many smooth, very long leaves. It has purple bell-like flowers that are generally upward-facing and tube-like. It is usually found in rich woodlands or thickets. This plant causes mild stomach upset, vomiting, and diarrhea. Overdosing of skullcap can cause confusion, stupor, seizures, and liver damage. However, used with proper dosages, it can help with inflammation, spasms, cleaning wounds, work as a sedative, and function as a general tonic.

Toxic
Found during: Summer, Autumn

Moonflower, also known as Morning-Glory or Moon Vine, is a five-petaled flower that is native to sub-tropical regions. The flowers open only in the evening or in overcast conditions. Commonly pale, the moonflower is usually white or light yellow, yet sometimes may be pink or purple in hue. If ingested, it can result in a dry mouth, hot skin, behavioural changes (ie. agitation, confusion), and can cause hallucinations. In severe cases, vision can go blurry, and seizures can occur.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring

A fern-like plant that prefers mountainous areas, particularly in mountain forests where the forest is relatively open. It includes areas such as subalpine meadows, snowy fields, mesic grassy slopes, prairie pothole meadows, edges of lakes, gravel bars, and roadsides. It can be used externally to treat bruising but is toxic if consumed.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Autumn

This variant of the rose has a large yellow center and large pink or white petals. It loves woods, forested areas, and open elevated areas. Flowers can help relieve depression and broken-heartedness (by eating it of course). Can help fight off cold and flu. Leaves can work as an astringent to help tighten tissues. All plant parts can be used to treat diarrhea, bedwetting, and frequent urination.

Edible Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

This berry-bearing fruit is found in forested or shady areas. It blooms yellow flowers in spring and summer and produces blue grape-like berries in late summer and early autumn. It is toxic in large amounts. It is useful for treating skin problems, dysentery, and many similar things which goldenseal also heals.

Edible Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer

Pacific waterleaf is a low-growing plant with leaves that are three-branched and stretching wide. It has a single spindly bloom at the end of a stalk that grows over the plant. It prefers forests and shady areas. It can be used to treat diarrhea, prevent thrombus, provide antioxidants, prevent high blood pressure, bust immunity, maintain eye health, and prevent cataracts, cancer, and osteoporosis.

Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Ever so beautiful, the pacific yew is an evergreen shrub that grows year-round but whose berries are only available in the spring, summer, and autumn. It loves forested areas, especially evergreen forests. This plant contains taxine, a fast-acting poison that can cause death before any symptoms ever appear. Do not consume!

Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

Pearly everlasting can be confused to be yarrow by those uneducated. Similar to yarrow, this plant grows in stalk-like formation with long thin leaves and has white flowers at the end of the stalk which is collected in bunches. Pearly, however, has very clear yellow centers to the flowers and the petals are small and narrow. It prefers dry and barren locations. It is a good remedy for diarrhea, dysentery, and pulmonary affections. A poultice of the flowers or the plant can help burns, sores, ulcers, bruises, swelling, and rheumatic joints.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

For being an overly common plant, Peppermint looks very similar to many other varieties of the Mentha family and might be confused as young Stinging Nettle to the untrained eye. The difference is that it, obviously, has a very clear minty odor. It can be found nearly everywhere but it is commonly found near streams and other wet areas. The whole plant is edible. It can aid in treating irritable bowel, stomach upset, digestive issues, aid in breastfeeding, ease heartburn, help migraines, and relieve a tension headache. It also has a calming effect to those who find its scent calming.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

These common inconspicuous plants are abundant, especially in open grassy areas. It is broad-leafed and has small stalks that grow up from it holding many seeds. They prefer meadows and full sunlight. The leaf can be used as a poultice or eaten and contains many vitamins. It can be used to treat burns, cuts, open sores, boils, mouth ulcers, throat pain or infection, dandruff or other skin problems, poison ivy or similar contact dermatitis, sunburn, improve liver or kidney functions, help gastrointestinal inflammation, and eases cold flu and respiratory issues.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Though the narrow leaf plantain has all the same healing properties as its brethren, it looks different. Leaves are thin and elongated with thinner, spindly reeds of seeds coming from the center of the plant. Just like its broadleaf brethren, the leaf can be used as a poultice or eaten and contains many vitamins. It can be used to treat burns, cuts, open sores, boils, mouth ulcers, throat pain or infection, dandruff or other skin problems, poison ivy or similar contact dermatitis, sunburn, improve liver or kidney functions, help gastrointestinal inflammation, and eases cold flu and respiratory issues.

Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

This variety of clubmoss prefers open woodlands, thickets, heathland, and rocky slopes. It gets its name because it is a club moss that looks like a small evergreen or "prickly tree". It is not edible! It contains lycopodine which is a paralytic. It also contains clavatine which is toxic to many mammals. It is very closely related to ground cedar.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

These trees thrive in thicker forests that provide a lot of shade. The bark is good once dried but the rest of the plant is inedible and toxic. It is used as mediation by chewing on the dried-out bark. The bark can help spark an appetite, be used to clean wounds, can be cathartic, can help treat headaches, rheumatic pains, internal injuries, and diarrhea. Catkins and young cones can be chewed to treat diarrhea. Bark can be used to treat poison ivy or similar plants, insect bites, and other skin irritations, headaches, and mouth sores or ulcers.

Edible Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

A beautiful herb that has the coloration of a sunrise or sunset, depending on your preference. The Red Columbine can be found in the shade of forests. Rich in nectar, and having a particularly sweet taste, the flower doesn't hold many medicinal properties save for a poultice made from the chewed roots or leaves which can be applied to sores, bee stings, etc. The seeds can also be chewed as a remedy for stomach aches. If crushed and applied externally, they can have a pleasant scent.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

These large clovers produce pretty pink flowers and the petals of the clover turn a pink-purple in the fall. It likes forested, shady areas. It is mildly toxic. Fresh juice from the plant can be used to relieve eyesores. A poultice from wilted and dried leaves can be used for boils, sores, or swollen areas on the skin.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

In the spring rosemary can be found with blue blossoms. A rich source of antioxidants, anti-inflammatory compounds, which are thought to help boost the immune system and improve blood circulation. Improving digestion, enhancing memory and concentration as well as neurological protection, preventing brain ageing, slowing cancer, protection against macular degeneration, arthritis-related joint pain, and pain relief.

Rosemary is usually safe when taken in low doses. However, extremely large doses can trigger serious side effects, although this is rare. Side effects include vomiting, spasms, coma, pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs) and in high doses, rosemary may cause miscarriage.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Found in open, grassy, arid areas, the sagebrush is a very common plant to be discovered. It is low to the ground and bushy, growing in clusters, with leaves being comprised of many spindly shoots. A decoction of the leaves can help with coughing, headaches, and colds. While it's not toxic, brushing against the leaves can cause dermatitis or even an allergic reaction.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

One of the many relatives to blackberries and raspberries. A pretty plant that flowers into a beautiful pink in the spring and turns into red or yellow berries in late summer and early autumn. Found in forested or shaded areas, the Salmonberry has many medicinal properties. If the leaves are made into a poultice, they can be applied as a dressing to wounds or burns. If the bark is made into a poultice, it can help clean the wounds and ease the pain. Decoctions are used from the root to help with labor pains and to treat stomach complaints.

Edible Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

This plant produces berries in the spring, but peaks in the summer. The berries can often be mistaken as blueberries, but rest assured, while they are not, they aren't toxic. These berries can help restore appetites and help treat upset stomachs. A decoction of the bark can be used as a contraceptive and help heal a female's internal system after delivery. They can be found in thickets, marshes, and streams. Toxicity warning is here because too many of these berries can cause rather explosive diarrhea.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer

Found upon beaches and sandy areas, the Seashore False Bindweed can be identified by its trumpet-like shape; the petals are often white with a plum-like shade. Leaves are very small and resemble teeny-tiny curled lilypads. The plant has a laxative effect when ingested, with no other known uses.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer

The seeds of the Seashore Lupine, which as its name foretells, can be found along the coast of beaches, contain bitter-tasting, toxic alkaloids. In large amounts, these seeds can cause death. It grows in clusters of tall stalks with purple, pink, or white bell-like flowers growing on all sides of the stalk from halfway up to the very tip.

Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

Found in forested, marshy, shaded areas, the Sitka Spruce's inner bark can be chewed in the treatment of throat problems, coughs, and colds. If the oil the bark produces is used in a poultice, it can help as a dressing for cuts, broken skin, or any sort of sore. Cones can be chewed on, but the plant is not edible.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Primarily grows in rocky forests. A tree that harbors medicinal properties within its root bark. It is an antibacterial, tonic, antiperiodic, anthelmintic and can be used as a tincture to help with roundworms, poor digestion, heartburn, asthma, constipation, afflictions of the spleen, or liver. Can help with nightmares.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Arrow Grass can be found in marshes, usually amongst the tall grass, or near the sea. It's especially present after droughts and is specifically toxic to ruminants (cows, etc). The grass is thicker with some shoots of thick seed clusters along the stalk of some portions. If ingested by any animal, the leaves will release a chemical compound known as 'cyanogenic glycoside', which is the longer name for hydrogen cyanide. Aka, highly toxic. No known medical uses. Do not ingest.

Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

The whole fresh plant is antiseptic and helps with skin irritations/diseases. It is very beneficial for allaying irritation from insect bites and can also serve as a preventative to being bitten. Because of its absorptive properties, it makes an excellent wound dressing. It is found in wet and boggy spots, preferably on peaty soils, mostly near heather, on mountains, and on moors. Must be dried thoroughly before use.

Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Looks similar to Peppermint when very young, but grows tall and spindly with reaching leaves and stalks hanging from it with tiny white flowers. Very high in nutrition, can be dried for winter use. The juice of the nettle can be used to help alleviate stings, and an infusion can help with burns. Externally, it can be applied to bruises. The plant is used to treat skin complaints. The plant MUST be blanched (in hot waters) or completely dried to use. Otherwise, the stinging sensation can be very unpleasant. Eating the plant without drying or blanching could cause an allergic reaction similar to anaphylactic shock.

Edible Medicinal
Found During: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

Thyme is a hardy perennial herb with foliage that stays evergreen in most regions. From May to September they will have white or lavender coloured flowers. Thyme can be ingested for; bronchitis, whooping cough, sore throat, colic, arthritis, upset stomach, stomach pain (gastritis), diarrhea, bedwetting, intestinal gas, parasitic worm infections, and skin disorders. It is also used to increase urine flow (as a diuretic), swollen tonsils (tonsillitis), sore mouth, bad breath and as an appetite stimulant.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Summer

A flowering plant that matures in the summer, it bears sweetly scented pink or white flowers that attract a variety of insects. Historically the roots are used to treat insomnia, migraines, fatigue, and stomach cramps, but it also helps anxiety, depression, menopause symptoms, and even headaches.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Growing in rocky forests and appearing to be innocent and pure with the white flowers branching out from the stem, do not be fooled. The Water Hemlock is considered to be the most toxic plant found in North America. Do not ingest or apply to the skin! Death can be a side effect even if externally applied. Causes heart problems, trouble breathing, convulsions, and kidney failure. Death has been stated to occur within as little as 15 minutes.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer

Prefers forest shade. Toxic unless put in heat, where the toxic properties are destroyed. Do not ingest otherwise. A three-petaled, white plant that grows damp soil and shallow ponds. The root has a large range of different uses that can span from lowering blood pressure, blood sugar levels, or cholesterol; it is also thought to be used as a remedy to rabies, as well as improve conception.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

Found in most deciduous forests. Looks like many other pines but is paler in color and produces pine cones a light shade of brown. Oil can be extracted from the resin of all pine trees that can contain an antiseptic, diuretic, rubefacient, and vermifuge. If ingested, it can be used as a remedy in the treatment of kidney or bladder complaints.

Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Found in somewhat moist areas sea level to high elevations in the mountains. A plant that can reach nearly one meter in height, has no medicinal properties but would make a healthy part of a diet if it weren't poisonous to canids. Stems are green and it produces white or pink flowers. Causes anemia, symptoms include but are not limited to Excessive salivation, irritation of the mouth, vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy, rapid heart rate, pale or bluish gums.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

Found on the trunks of willow trees, the bark can be peeled off and used to treat pain or fever. It can also be used for osteoarthritis, arthritis, influenza, blood thinner and weight loss.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Spring, Summer

A plant that grows on a high stalk and has many yellow and red buts in a cluster from about halfway to the top of the stalk. Found in pine woods, coniferous, or mixed forests, the tall reddish-purple plant has edible stems and berries that can be used to help treat lung hemorrhages, nosebleeds, and gonorrhea; the berries and stems are disinfectant and can help with reducing bleeding from minor abrasions.

Medicinal Toxic
Found during: Summer, Autumn

A long-stemmed member of the sunflower family, this white clustered plant can be found in wastelands, dry fields, or along banks. Ingested, this plant can help reduce fevers, improve digestion, and cramps. As a tincture or poultice, it can help with rashes, itchiness, broken skin, and insect repellant.

Edible Medicinal
Found during: Spring, Summer, Autumn

This uncommon orchid can be found in moist to dry deciduous woodlands, sandy woodlands and savannas, thinly wooded bluffs along rivers, wooded slopes, and forested bogs. It's named for its yellow bulbous center. The Yellow Pouch (or yellow lady's slipper) can be ingested for relieving stress, anxiety, reducing mild depression, decreasing nerve pain, PMS symptoms, and easing tension headaches.