The
Wild
Foodies of Philly! In search of the food
beneath our feet
The Weedalogue / Gendlers' List - A Catalogue of the "Wild" Plants of Philadelphia (includes edible, inedible, & poisonous) http://www.weedalogue.com & https://www.instagram.com/weedalogue/
* I started this "flower color" list in 2010 and never finished...and am not going to. So, enjoy it as is. Lynn Landes (July 4, 2023)
FLOWER PETAL COLORS --
YELLOW:
http://www.weedalogue.com/purslane/ Garden Purslane, Little Hogweed, Pusley, Munyeroo, etc. (very tiny yellow blossom, commercial brands feature large flowers of different colors)
http://www.weedalogue.com/velvetleaf/ Indian Mallow, Butterprint, Pie Marker, Velvet Weed, Indian Hemp, Cotton-Weed, Butter-Weed, Buttonweed, etc.
http://www.weedalogue.com/yellowtoadflax/ Butter and Eggs, Eggs and Bacon, Ramstead, Flaxweed, Wild Snapdragon, Jacob's Ladder, etc.
http://www.weedalogue.com/sowthistle/ Sowthistle, Common Sowthistle and Smooth Sowthistle
http://www.weedalogue.com/birdsfoot/ Bird's-Foot Trefoil, Birdfoot Deervetch, Birdsfoot Deervetch, Bird's-Foot Deervetch and Bacon and Eggs
http://www.weedalogue.com/sunflower/ Common Sunflower
http://www.weedalogue.com/showysunflower/ Beautiful Sunflower and Cheerful Sunflower
http://www.weedalogue.com/commonmullein/ Wooly Mullein, Velvet Dock, Big Taper, Candle-Wick, Flannel-Leaf etc.
http://www.weedalogue.com/blackmedick/ Black Medick (Medicago lupulina) also known as: nonesuch, yellow trefoil, hop clover and hop medic.
http://www.weedalogue.com/bulbousbuttercup/ Bulbous Crowfoot, St. Anthony's Turnip, Yellow Weed, Blister Flower and Gowan
http://www.weedalogue.com/falseflax/ Falseflax, Littlepod False Flax, Smallseed Falseflax and Small Fruited Falseflax.
http://www.weedalogue.com/catsear/ Hairy Cat's Ear, False Dandelion and Frogbit (looks like dandelion)
http://www.weedalogue.com/cinquefoil/ Common Cinquefoil, five finger
http://www.weedalogue.com/prim/ Common Evening-Primrose
http://www.weedalogue.com/groundcherry/ Lesser Celandine, Pilewort and Fig Buttercup
http://www.weedalogue.com/commongroundsel/ Old-man-in-the-Spring, Common Groundsel, Groundsel, Ragwort, Grimsel, Grinsel, Grundsel, Simson, Birdseed, Chickenweed, Old-man-of-the-spring, Squaw Weed, Grundy Swallow, Ground Glutton, Common Butterweed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senecio_vulgaris
http://www.weedalogue.com/stjohnswort/ Common St. John's Wort, Klamathweed and Klamath Weed
ORANGE:
http://www.weedalogue.com/trumpetcreeper/ Trumpet Vine and Cow-Itch
BLUE:
http://www.weedalogue.com/asiaticdayflower/ scurvy weed, Native Wandering Jew, widow's tears
http://www.weedalogue.com/cornflower/ Bachelor's Button (looks like chicary blossom)
http://www.weedalogue.com/chicory/ Blue Sailors and Coffeeweed
PURPLE: (also check lavender and pink)
http://www.weedalogue.com/blueviolet/ hooded blue violet and meadow violet
http://www.weedalogue.com/purple/ Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria L.) also known as: Purple Lythrum and Bouquet-Violet (very invasive)
http://www.weedalogue.com/falseindigo/ purple seeds
http://www.weedalogue.com/greaterburdock/ (looks like thistle)
http://www.weedalogue.com/lesserburdock/ Common Burdock, Small Burdock,
Smaller Burdock, Wild Burdock, Wild Rhubarb, Bardane and Beggar's Button.
Burdock is also sometimes spelled Burrdock.
(looks like thistle)
http://www.weedalogue.com/woollyburdock/ (looks like thistle)
http://www.weedalogue.com/climbingnightshade/ Woody Nightshade, Bittersweet Nightshade and Bittersweet, (red berries)
http://www.weedalogue.com/speedwell/ Corn Speedwell, Wall Speedwell, Rock Speedwell etc.
PINK: (also check purple)
http://www.weedalogue.com/lookingglass/ Venus' Looking-Glass, Clasping Bellwort and Roundleaved Triodanis
http://www.weedalogue.com/highmallow/ Mallow, Common Mallow, Tall Mallow, Wood Mallow and French Hollyhock
http://www.weedalogue.com/bractedverbena/ Bracted Vervain, Bigbract Verbena, Bigbract Vervain, Large Bracted Vervain, Creeping Verbena, Prostrate Vervain, etc.
http://www.weedalogue.com/swampverbena/ Blue Vervain.
http://www.weedalogue.com/milkweed/ Common Milkweed (very pale, almost white)
http://www.weedalogue.com/lemonbalm/ (could be white)
http://www.weedalogue.com/soapwort/ (very pale) Bouncing Bet and Sweet William
http://www.weedalogue.com/muskthistle/ Nodding Thistle or Nodding Plumeless Thistle
http://www.weedalogue.com/geranium/ Carolina Cranesbill, Carolina Geranium
http://www.weedalogue.com/groundivy/ Gill-Over-The-Ground, Creeping Charlie, Cats-Foot and Field Balm
http://www.weedalogue.com/spiderflower/ Pink Queen
WHITE:
http://www.weedalogue.com/chickweed/ Winterweed, Starwort and Starweed, (reddish stem)
http://www.weedalogue.com/commonyarrow/ Yarrow, Milfoil, Allheal, Thousand-leaf, Bloodwort, Carpenter's Grass, Cammock, Green Arrow, Gordoloba, Plumajillo, Sneezeweed, Nosebleed, Green Adder's Mouth, Soldier's Woundwort, Dog Daisy, Old-man's-pepper, etc.
http://www.weedalogue.com/pokeweed/ Poke, Pokum, Skoke, Skokum, Pokeroot, Pokeberry, Pigeonberry, Inkberry, Cancerjalap, American-Nightshade, American-Spinach, Bear's Grape, Coak, Crowberry, Haystack-Weed, etc.
http://www.weedalogue.com/mayweed/ Mayweed Chamomile, Stinking Chamomile, Dog Fennel and Pig-Stye-Daisy
http://www.weedalogue.com/hairyaster/ looks like daisy)
http://www.weedalogue.com/lemonbalm/ Bee Balm and Common Balm (could be very pale pink)
http://www.weedalogue.com/whitecampion/ Evening Lychnis and Bladder Campion
http://www.weedalogue.com/venicemallow/Venice Mallow (Hibiscus trionum L.) also known as: Flower-Of-An-Hour, Bladder Ketmia, Modesty and Shoo-Fly
http://www.weedalogue.com/buttonbush/ Common buttonbush (flower in shape of a ball)
http://www.weedalogue.com/horseweed/ Mare's Tail
http://www.weedalogue.com/bittercress/ Hairy Bittercress
http://www.weedalogue.com/horsenettle/ Carolina Horsenettle
http://www.weedalogue.com/carpetweed/ Green Carpetweed, looks like cleaver (catchweed, bedstraw), but taste fine and isn't cratchy
http://www.weedalogue.com/nodding/ Nodding Spurge, Eyebane
http://www.weedalogue.com/chicory/ Blue Sailors and Coffeeweed (mostly looks blue, but sometimes white)
http://www.weedalogue.com/climbingfalse/ Climbing False Buckwheat
http://www.weedalogue.com/commonmallow/ Roundleaf Mallow, Dwarf Mallow, Running Mallow, Malice, Round Dock and Buttonweed
http://www.weedalogue.com/hairygalinsoga/ Shaggy Soldier and Common Quickweed
http://www.weedalogue.com/goutweed/ Gout Weed (Aegopodium podagraria L.) also known as: Bishop's Weed and Bishop's Goutweed
Multicolored:
http://www.weedalogue.com/wildgarlic/ (red center/green hairs)
http://www.weedalogue.com/gardenvetch/ Common Vetch
Not catalogued:
http://www.weedalogue.com/lambsquarter/ Lamb's Quarter, Lamb's-quarters, Common Lamb's-quarters, Lambsquarter, Goosefoot, White Goosefoot, Fat-hen, Pigweed, etc.
http://www.weedalogue.com/mugwort/ Common Mugwort and Chrysanthemum Weed
http://www.weedalogue.com/wormseed/ Epazote, Mexican Tea, Jesuit's Tea or Herba Sancta Mariæ http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/medicinal/epazote.html
http://www.weedalogue.com/clammygoosefoot/ Clammy Goosefoot, Small Crumbweed (reddish stem)
http://www.weedalogue.com/carpetweed/ Carpet Weed, Green Carpetweed
http://www.weedalogue.com/redroot/ Amaranth, Redroot pigweed, Green Pigweed, Rough Pigweed and Careless Weed
http://www.weedalogue.com/spottedspurge/ Prostrate Spurge, Milk Purslane and Spotted Sandmat (? purselain
http://www.weedalogue.com/tumbleweed/ aramanths
http://www.weedalogue.com/livid/ prostrate pigweed, aramanths
http://www.weedalogue.com/redroot/ aramanths
http://www.weedalogue.com/ragweed/ Common Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) also known as: Annual Ragweed, Bitterweed, Hay-Fever Weed, Hog-Weed, Mayweed, Roman Wormweed, Wild Tansy, etc.
http://www.weedalogue.com/giantragweed/ (http://organictobe.org/2008/09/09/the-irony-of-giant-ragweed/ )
http://www.weedalogue.com/triangleorache/ (triangle shape)
http://www.weedalogue.com/catchweed/ (might be white) Catchweed, Bedstraw, Goosegrass, Cleavers, Sticky Willy, etc. (looks like carpet weed)
http://www.weedalogue.com/kochia/ Burning Bush, Mexican Burning Bush, Mexican Fireweed, Fireball, Belvedere, Red Belvedere, Belvedere-Cypress, Mock-Cypress, Summer Cypress and Mirabel
http://www.weedalogue.com/blackseed/ PLANTAIN
http://www.weedalogue.com/commonplantain/ Broadleaf Plantain, Greater Plantain etc.
http://www.weedalogue.com/ribwort/ Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata L.) also known as: ribwort, ribgrass, buckhorn, buckhorn plantain, English plantain, lance leaved plantain, lanceleaf plantain, lanceleaf Indianwheat, narrowleaf plantain, narrow leaved plantain, rat tail, lamb's tongue, wild sago. etc.
http://www.weedalogue.com/crowdipper/ Pinellia and Breitenbach
http://www.weedalogue.com/teasel/
Fuller's Teasel and sometimes designated Dipsacus sylvestris
FUNGI / LICHEN:
http://www.weedalogue.com/cladonia/ (bright red parts)
MARSH PLANTS:
http://www.weedalogue.com/cattail/ Common Cattail, Broadleaf Cattail
VINES:
http://www.weedalogue.com/porcelainberry/ (blue berries)
FERNS:
GRASSES:
http://www.weedalogue.com/fringedsedge/ Short hair
TREES:
http://www.weedalogue.com/ashleafmaple/ Box Elder
http://www.weedalogue.com/orientalbittersweet/ red berries
http://www.weedalogue.com/redbud/ Eastern Redbud