[grellis]

Wild asparagus grows all around here, and does particularly well in freeway culverts (maybe the plants to well with a high salt-content soil?).

Dandelion greens are at their best in the first weeks of spring, very tender and much less bitter than they are through the warmer months.

[Salamander]

Get GOOD field guides if you’re going to attempt “foraging”, folks.

http://www.sacredearth.com/ethnobotany/foraging/asparagus.php

http://books.google.com/books?id=uo4GlfyjgFwC&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=field+cress&source=web&ots=Zr5NheO76V&sig=Y-c1-WbX3-KPlTHGoE5KuWHI75w&hl=en#PPA102,M1

It’d be a tragedy to mistake wild parsley for poison water hemlock.