Foraging walk plant list
This list shows the plants we've encountered on our foraging walks in People's Park with The Hitchin Foarger Jane Simmons.
Herbs and flowers
Common name Latin name
Avens (wood) - Geum urbanum
Bedstraw (hedge) - Galium album
Bedstraw (ladies) - Galium verum
Blackberry - Rubus fruticosus sp.
Blackthorn - Prunus spinosa
Burdock - Arctium
Chickweed - Stellaria media
Cleaver (Sticky weed) - Gallium aparine
Cow Parsley (Wild Chervil) - Anthriscus sylvestris
Daisy - Bellis perennis
Dandelion - Taraxacum sp.
Dead Nettle (red) - Lamium purpureum
Dead Nettle (white) - Lamium album
Dock (broad-leaf) - Rumex obtusifolius
Dogs mercury - Mercurialis perennis (poisonous!- can be deadly)☠️
Garlic Mustard - Alliiaria petiolata
Green Alkanet - Pentaglottis sempervivens
Ground elder - Aegopodium podagaria
Ground Ivy - Glechoma hederacea
Herb robert - Geranium robertianum
Hogweed (common) - Heracleum sphondylium
Honeysuckle - Lonicera
Lords and Ladies/
Cuckoo pint - Arum maculatumMallow - Malva neglecta
Nettle - Urtica dioica
Plantain (broadleaf) - Plantago major
Plantain (ribwort) - Plantago lanceolata
Primrose - Primula vulgaris
Rose (Dog) - Rosa canina
Salad burnet - Sanguisorba minor
Violet - Viola odorata
White Bryony - Bryonia alba (poisonous - purgative - can be deadly)☠️
Wild carrot - Daucus carota
Wild Garlic - Allium ursinum
Wild strawberry - Gragaria vesca
Yarrow - Achillea millifolium
Trees
Common name Latin name
Apple & Crab Apple - Malus domestic sp.
Beech Tree - Fagus sylvatica
Birch (silver) - Betula pendula
Blackthorn (sloe) - Prunus spinosa
Cherry - Prunus avid sp.
Elder - Sambucus nigra
Hawthorn (Common) - Crataegus monogyna
Hazel - Corylus avellana Trees
Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus
Lime (large-leaf) - Tilia platyphyllos
Lime (small-leaf) - Tilia cordata
Maple (field) - Acer campestre
Oak - Quercus sp.