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American elderberry · Broadleaf arrowhead · Cattail · Evening primrose · Goldenrod · Hopniss · Milkweed · Mullein · Red raspberry · Rubus · Spotted jewelweed · Wild carrot
📍 65 Gray Rd, Cumberland, ME 04021, USA
🗓 Season: August · September · May · June · July
🔍 When is it ripe?
American elderberry: Blue-black berries in flat clusters; cook before eating. Ripe when uniformly dark blue-black and heavy. Also note: elderflowers in June are edible raw and excellent for cordial.
Cattail: Multiple edible parts across the season: young shoots (spring), green flower spikes (May–June, boil like corn), yellow pollen (June–July, shake into a bag), and starchy root (year-round). Green spikes are ripe when fully formed but still bright green.
Red raspberry: Bright red and detaches from the core plug with no resistance. Fragrant and very soft when ripe. Autumn-fruiting varieties produce a second flush in September–October.
Elderberry found on both sides of the road, where there is parking on the right side (heading in the direction of Gray) and over 50’ out in the left side by the river. Arrowhead on the banks of the river. Red raspberry going towards the elderberry bushes on the left side of the road in abundance, only a few were ripe as of July 2nd, 2020. Also milkweed in bloom on the way to the elderberry bushes July 2nd.
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