Survival Plants: Which are edible and which are harmful

Plants You Can

Eat And Which

ones will make

you sick!!!!!

Some Can Keep You

Alive And Some Will Kill

You!!!!!!!!!

Categories Of Harmful PlantsAnd Some Examples

Autumn Crocus PoinsettiaYewBlack Locust RhubarbCastorbean Star of BethlehemLily of the Valley Water Hemlock

Beggar Ticks Squirrel Tail BarleyPrickly Pear Tearthumb

Black Nightshade Jerusalem Cherry Climbing Nightshade Jimsonweed Ground Cherry Potato Fruit Horsenettle

Giant Ragweed PokeweedJack-in-the-Pulpit RagweedPoison Ivy Stinging NettlePoison Sumac

What plants you can eat in the woods to survive

Black Mulberry Black Walnut Cattails Dandelion Hickory Tree MayApple Pecans

Sassafras Solomon's SeaWild GarlicWild Onion Wild Strawberry

List of plants that are edible

Information about different types of Irritants

•Beggar Tickso Beggar Ticks have barbs on them that attach a seed to the socks and trousers and irritate the skin of people who walk threw them.o They are found in wet areas.oHave 1 flower [3/4-1”] and 1-2 leaves [1½ in. long].

Irritants

•Prickly pearoIt is a cactus.oFound in north Americas deserts.oThey have yellow flowers and flat fleshy pads that look like leaves.

•Squirrel Tail BarleyoAlso, known as foxtail barleyoThey have downward pointing barbs which lacerate the skin.oThey are especially harmful to animals because they get in the animals mouths and cause an infection.

Beggar Ticks

Prickly Pear

Squirrel Tail Barley

Poisonous NightshadesInformation about Poisonous Nightshades

•Black Nightshadeo It is very poisonous.o It looks like a weed with little black berries on it.o You can find it in fields of crops and in damp and shady places.o Is around a foot tall.

•Jerusalem CherryoThis is a regular plant that people grow on their porches and in their houses.oIt is lowly toxic but you should still keep them away from children and pets.oIt looks like a little tree and the “cherries” look like cherry tomatoes.

•Potato FruitoIt is a above ground fruit and if it’s green it is toxic, of course you should not eat it.oAlso, regular potatoes can turn green like this and when they do you have to cook them to remove the toxins before you eat it.

Potato Fruit

Jerusalem

Cherry

Black Nightshade

Poisonous OrnamentalsInformation About Poisonous Ornamentals

•Black LocustoThe seeds on the tree can poison you if you eat them.oEven If you just put the broken twig to your mouth if you had a cut it could cause server problems.oIt is a huge tree that can get up to 80 ft. tall, but the leaves are only about ½ of an in.

•CastorbeanoIt is grow for it’s large leaves, flowers, and fruit.oThe plant alone is not toxic however if you eat only one little seed it can kill you.oYou should keep away from children and pets.oIt is a medium bush like plant with red flowers.

•Water HemlockoIt is found in wet areas.oIf you eat the root you will die but first you will experience excruciating pain.oThe root is like a swollen chamber and if it is cut open it will release a yellow exudate.

Black Locust

Castorbean

Water hemlock

Miscellaneous Harmful PlantsInformation About Miscellaneous Harmful Plants

•Poison IvyoIt has been here for hundreds of years.oEach individual stem has 3 leaves.oAll parts of the plant are poisonous at any time.oMakes you extremely itchy and gives you a rash.

•RagweedoIt is one of the biggest causes of alurgeic reactions to pollen.oIt releases large amounts of pollen.oIt cause “Hay fever”.

•Stinging NettleoGrows in wet areas.oCauses itchy skin and a rash.oIt’s like poison ivy but it goes away after 24 hrs.

Ragweed

Poison Ivy

Stinging Nettle