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Latin NameCommon NameEdibility RatingMedicinal Rating
Acorus gramineusGrass-leaved Sweet Rush, Japanese Sweet Flag, Dwarf Sweet Flag33
Alnus glutinosaAlder, European alder , Common Alder, Black Alder03
Aquilegia brevistylaSmallflower columbine21
Aquilegia canadensisWild Columbine, Red columbine, Meeting Houses, Common Columbine22
Aquilegia coeruleaRocky Mountain Columbine, Colorado blue columbine, Dailey's columbine, White Colorado columbine21
Aquilegia flavescensColumbine, Yellow columbine21
Aquilegia formosaWestern Columbine22
Aquilegia formosa truncataColumbine22
Aquilegia jonesiiColumbine, Jones' columbine, Blue limestone columbine21
Aquilegia pubescensColumbine, Sierra columbine21
Aquilegia shockleyi 21
Aquilegia vulgarisColumbine, European columbine, Granny's Bonnet, European Crowfoot21
Artemisia biennisBiennial Wormwood11
Asimina trilobaPapaw42
Boenninghausenia albiflora 02
Carya illinoinensisPecan41
Celosia argentea cristataLagos Spinach, Common Cockscomb43
Clerodendrum trichotomumChou Wu Tong, Harlequin glorybower, Ferruginous clerodendrum, Harlequin Glory Bower13
Comptonia peregrinaSweet Fern33
Comptonia peregrina asplenifoliaSweet Fern33
Consolida ambiguaLarkspur, Doubtful knight's-spur, Rocket Larkspur02
Debregeasia longifoliaWild Rhea11
Delphinium caeruleum 01
Drimys winteriWinter's Bark32
Eucalyptus gummiferaRed Bloodwood13
Ferula assa-foetidaAsafoetida - Devil's Dung. Hing (Indian), Asafetida33
Guizotia abyssinicaNiger Seed, Ramtilla31
Hedera helixIvy, English ivy, Algerian ivy, Baltic Ivy, Common Ivy03
Impatiens aurellaPaleyellow touch-me-not22
Impatiens ecalcarata 22
Impatiens occidentalis 32
Impatiens parvifloraSmallflower touchmenot22
Ipomoea nilJapanese Morning Glory, Whiteedge morning-glory02
Ixeris polycephala 11
Jasminum humileYellow Jasmine11
Jasminum officinaleJessamine, Poet's jasmine22
Juniperus chinensisChinese Juniper, Sargent juniper02
Juniperus oxycedrusPrickly Juniper, Cade juniper01
Lactuca sativaLettuce, Garden lettuce33
Laurus nobilisBay Tree, Sweet bay, Grecian Laurel, True Laurel,33
Liquidambar orientalisOriental Sweet Gum23
Liquidambar styracifluaSweet Gum, Red Gum, American Sweet Gum, Red Sweet Gum,23
Lyonia ovalifolia 01
Marah macrocarpusChilicothe, Cucamonga manroot02
Nigella sativaBlack Cumin33
Oplopanax horridusDevil's Club22
Patrinia scabiosifoliaEastern Valerian, Scabious Patrinia13
Peganum harmalaSyrian Rue, Harmal peganum13
Phyla nodifloraFrogfruit, Turkey tangle fogfruit12
Picrasma quassioidesNigaki12
Pinus massonianaChinese Red Pine22
Polygonum barbatumJoint Weed11
Rhus toxicodendronEastern Poison Oak02
Rubus paniculatus 21
Saururus chinensis 02
Senna toraStinking Cassia, Sickle senna13
Smilax asperaSarsaparilla, Rough bindweed33
Sophora flavescensKu Shen, Shrubby sophora03
Tephroseris integrifolia 11
Thuja orientalisBiota13
Trigonella foenum-graecumFenugreek, Sicklefruit fenugreek45
Ulmus macrocarpa 21
Zanthoxylum piperitumJapanese Pepper Tree32
Zanthoxylum schinifoliumPeppertree22
Aconitum columbianumColumbian monkshood01
Aconitum delphinifolium 01
Aconitum maximumKamchatka aconite00
Angelica sylvestrisWild Angelica,Woodland angelica32
Aquilegia brevistylaSmallflower columbine21
Aquilegia buergeriana 20
Aquilegia canadensisWild Columbine, Red columbine, Meeting Houses, Common Columbine22
Aquilegia coeruleaRocky Mountain Columbine, Colorado blue columbine, Dailey's columbine, White Colorado columbine21
Aquilegia flabellataFan Columbine, Dwarf Columbine20
Aquilegia flavescensColumbine, Yellow columbine21
Aquilegia formosaWestern Columbine22
Aquilegia formosa truncataColumbine22
Aquilegia jonesiiColumbine, Jones' columbine, Blue limestone columbine21
Aquilegia karelinii 20
Aquilegia pubescensColumbine, Sierra columbine21
Aquilegia shockleyi 21
Aquilegia vulgarisColumbine, European columbine, Granny's Bonnet, European Crowfoot21
Carum carviCaraway43
Consolida ambiguaLarkspur, Doubtful knight's-spur, Rocket Larkspur02
Consolida regalisLarkspur, Royal knight's-spur03
Delphinium brachycentrumNorthern larkspur00
Delphinium brunonianum 00
Delphinium caeruleum 01
Delphinium cashmerianum 01
Delphinium denudatum 01
Delphinium glaucumGiant Larkspur, Sierra larkspur00
Delphinium menziesiiMenzies' Larkspur01
Delphinium nuttallianumLarkspur, Twolobe larkspur00
Delphinium staphisagriaStavesacre02
Dioscorea deltoideaYam22
Equisetum hyemaleDutch Rush, Scouringrush horsetail, Horsetail, Scouring Rush, Rough Horsetail22
Euonymus europaeusSpindle Tree, European spindletree12
Frasera speciosaGreen Gentian, Elkweed12
Grindelia robustaGreat Valley Gumweed12
Helleborus nigerBlack Hellebore02
Helleborus viridisGreen Hellebore02
Inula conyzaPloughman's Spikenard01
Inula royleana 01
Juniperus chinensisChinese Juniper, Sargent juniper02
Juniperus oxycedrusPrickly Juniper, Cade juniper01
Juniperus sabinaSavine, Tam Juniper02
Juniperus scopulorumRocky Mountain Juniper, Weeping Rocky Mountian Juniper, Colorado Red Cedar32
Lactuca sativaLettuce, Garden lettuce33
Lactuca sativa angustanaCeltuce33
Ledum groenlandicumLabrador Tea, Bog Labrador tea23
Leucothoe grayana 01
Melia azederachBead Tree, Pride of India, Chinaberry33
Mosla scabra 11
Myrica galeBog Myrtle, Sweetgale22
Nerium oleanderOleander, Rose Bay02
Oplopanax horridusDevil's Club22
Origanum vulgareOregano, Pot Marjoram43
Salvia tiliifoliaLindenleaf sage10
Sambucus chinensisChinese Elder21
Sophora flavescensKu Shen, Shrubby sophora03
Sorbus sitchensisSitka Mountain Ash, Western mountain ash11
Tephroseris integrifolia 11
Tsuga heterophyllaWestern Hemlock12
Ulmus macrocarpa 21
Annona muricataSour Sop43
Blighia sapidaAkee, ackee apple or ayee32
Canarium luzonicumManila Elemi43
Carica papayaPapaya, Mamo, Melon Tree53
Dioscorea bulbiferaAerial Yam, Air Potato42
Embelia ribesFalse black pepper, White-flowered Embelia34
Gymnanthemum amygdalinumBitterleaf43
Mondia whiteiMondia, White's Ginger34
Myrianthus arboreusGiant yellow mulberry, Monkeyfruit43
Neolamarckia cadambaAmboina, Kadam12
Paraderris ellipticaDerris02
Psidium guajavaGuava, Tropical Guava, Goiaba, Araçá-goiaba52
Senna siameaSiamese Senna, Kassod Tree11
Sesbania bispinosaPrickly Sesban22
Simarouba amaraParadise tree, bitterwood34
Simarouba glaucaParadise Tree, Bitterwood, Dysentery-bark34
Sonneratia caseolarisFirefly mangrove, mangrove apple22
Syzygium aromaticumClove, Zanzibar Redhead44
Thespesia populneaPortia Tree, Aden Apple, Indian Tulip Tree33
Vernicia montanaAbrasin oil tree03
Jasminum sambacJasmine Tea33
Carapa guianensisAndiroba04
Cassia fistulaGolden Shower, Purging Cassia, Golden Chain Tree, Indian Laburnum14
Cassia sieberianaWest African Laburnum14
Cedrelopsis greveiKatrafay, Kathrafay24
Chamaecrista nigricansDiola, Diala12
Chloroxylon swieteniaEast Indian Satinwood03
Combretum imberbeLeadwood Tree, Ivory tree22
Costus aferSpiral Ginger, Ginger lily, White spiral costus.24
Dalbergia louveliiAndramena, Volombodipona, Violet rosewood02
Dysphania anthelminticaWormseed24
Entandrophragma angolenseTiama Mahogany12
Entandrophragma candolleiWest African Cedar02
Euphorbia tirucalliAfrican Milkbush, Pencil Cactus, Milk Bush02
Gloriosa superbaGloriosa Lily, Climbing Lily, Flame Lily04
Litsea cubebaMountain Pepper, Litsea22
Melaleuca leucadendraPaperbark, Weeping Paperbark24
Minquartia guianensisWanania, Arataweri02
Pausinystalia macrocerasFalse johimbe05
Pentadiplandra brazzeanaJoy perfume tree, j'oubli44
Pericopsis elataAfrican-teak, golden afrormosia, kokrodua02
Phytolacca dodecandraEndod, Pokeberry23
Picrasma excelsaJamaican Quassia24
Ptaeroxylon obliquumSneezewood02
Pterocarpus angolensisAmbila03
Pterocarpus erinaceusAfrican Kino03
Pterocarpus soyauxiiAfrican Coralwood22
Pterodon emarginatusFaveiro, sucupira, sucupira-branca04
Pycnanthus angolensisAfrican Nutmeg23
Quassia amaraBitterwood, Amargo Bark24
Reutealis trispermaOtaheite Walnut, Lumbang Tree02
Santalum ellipticumCoast Sandalwood12
Santalum freycinetianumLanai Sandalwood, Hawaiian Sandalwood12
Santalum haleakalaeHaleakala Sandalwood, Lliahi12
Santalum paniculatumMountain Sandalwood, Hawaiian Sandalwood, 'Iliahi12
Sapindus mukorossiChinese Soapberry, Soap Berry, Chinese Soapberry, Soapnut Tree12
Scoparia dulcisSweet Broom, Licorice Weed, Vassourinha24
Senna alataRingworm Bush, Candle Bush, Empress Candle Plant24
Tabebuia roseaApamate, Pink Poui, Pink Tecoma, Rosy Trumpet Tree02
Tachia guianensisTachia04
Tamarindus indicaTamarind43
Tectona grandisTeak22
Terminalia chebulaBlack Myrobalan, Chebulic Myroblan,35
Thespesia populneoidesTulip Tree; Portia Tree; Pacific Rosewood33
Tinospora crispaPatawali, Akar Patawali04
Trema orientalisCharcoal Tree12
Trichilia dregeanaCape Mahogany43
Turraeanthus africanusAvodire02
Vachellia seyalShittim Wood22
Vernicia fordiiTung Tree, Tung Nut13
Vigna unguiculata cylindricaJerusalem Pea21
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