Urban
Local parks & woods,
back gardens, allotments, waste grounds & roadsides
URBAN
parks & woods
wood sorrel
common sorrel
apple blossoms
beech leaves
hawthorn leaves
elderflower/berry
dog rose flowers
wild garlic
garlic mustard
three cornered leek
nettle
silverweed
meadowsweet
sweet violet
water mint
gardens and allotments ("weeds")
chickweed
primrose
borage
hairy bittercress
common sorrel
dandelion and burdock
broad leaved dock
apple blossoms
beech leaves
hawthorn leaves
elderflower
dog rose flowers
nettle
water mint
field mushroom
field blewit
wild raspberry
waste grounds & roadsides
common/field poppy
hawthorn leaves and berry
beech leaves and nuts
nettles
curled dock
common sorrel
shepherd's purse
field penny-cress
hairy bitter-cress
dog rose flowers and rosehips
blackberry (bramble)
sticky weed (willy) / goosegrass, cleavers
oxeye daisy (root)
dandelion & burdock
Woodlands
Damp woodlands, deciduous woodlands, coniferous forests
Late summer to autumn
blackberry
hawthorn berry
bilberry / whortleberry
wild strawberry
blackcurrant
wild raspberry
rowan berry
common sorrel
rosehip
chantarelle
hazelnut
beech nut
sweet chestnut
chantarelle
giant puffaball
parasol mushroom
beefsteak fungus
Mid summer
sticky weed (willy) / goosegrass
fat hen
good King Henry
blackberry
elderberry
wild raspberry
gooseberry
hazelnut
green walnut
wild strawberry
hedgehog fungus
chantarelle
giant puffball
WOODLAND
Spring to early summer
Wood sorrel
beech leaves
hawthorn leaves
elderflower
navalwort
dog rose flowers
common sorrel
wild garlic
garlic mustard
three cornered leek
nettle
sweet violet
larch needles (very soft)
Moorland
heathlands, bog & mires
Exmoor - Dartmoor - Brecon Beacons - Snowdonia - Peak District - Yorkshire Dales - Lake District - North York Moors- Cairngorms - Northumberland -
HEATHLAND, MOORLAND, BOG, MIRE
bilberry/whortleberry/bilberry/wimberry
hawthorn leaves/ berry - this one is a personal favourite!
crowberry
cuckoo flower
meadowsweet
rowan berry
gorse
nettles
common sorrel
sloe berry/blackthorn
bog myrtle
heather flowers
blackberry/bramble
common puffball
streams, canal & riverside
estuaries, salt marshes & shingle ridge
Fresh and saltwater courses
SALTWATER COURSES
estuaries, salt marshes and shingle ridge
marsh samphire (glasswort)
rock samphire
sea beet / wild spinach
sea kale
red valerian
wild cabbage
marsh-mallow
common scurvygrass
sea urslane
common orache
spear-leaved orache
hottentot - fig (southwest England)
FRESHWATER COURSES
stream, canal and riverside
water mint
common reed
hairy bitter-cress
opposite-leaved golden saxifrage
meadowsweet
cuckooflower/ lady's smock
watercress
woodruff
Coastline
rocky and sandy shores
rockpools
seaweeds & shellfish
ROCKY & SANDY SHORE, ROCKPOOLS
Shellfish
limpets
saltwater mussels
periwinkles
cockles
clams
Some rules:
1. Do not gather shellfish near sewerage outlets
2. Wash shellfish thoroughly inside and out
3. Make sure it's alive! moving suckers will be visible alongside pressurised clinging to rocks
bivalves - carefully open the shell and if it closes forcefully, then it is safe
Seaweeds
upper shore (near the beach)
purple laver
gut weed
sea lettuce
middle shore
dulse
saw wrack
sea lettuce
bladder wrack
lower shore
kelp - oarweed
kelp - sea belt, Poor man's weather-glass
sea lettuce