Fall Foraging Guide: List of Edible Plants With Pictures

This list of the best edible plants with pictures is the fall foraging guide you need to start gathering what's in season around you!

When the weather turns cool, you can count on finding heavy clusters of medicinal elderberries

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Rose hips are the fruit of the rose flower & are often foraged after the first frost of fall

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After the first rains of the fall season, delicious chanterelle mushrooms pop their heads up out of the soil

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Oak trees drop their tasty acorns in the fall & can be used to make homemade acorn flour

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Dandelion roots are at their most medicinal in the fall & make an excellent coffee substitute

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The needles of evergreen conifers are one of the most widespread wild edibles to forage in the fall & are rich in vitamin C (perfect for cold and flu season!)

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Hawthorn berries ripen in the fall & are great for heart health. They are also high in pectin & often used to homemade jam & jelly recipes

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