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Cattail · Chokecherry · Garden asparagus · Golden currant · Milkweed · Rose
🗓 Season: May · June · July · August · September · October · November
🔍 When is it ripe?
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.
Chokecherry: Small clusters ripen from red to very dark purple-black. Intensely astringent until fully dark; seeds and leaves contain hydrocyanic acid — cook or dry before eating in quantity. Best for jams and syrups.
Rose: Rose hips (swollen seed pods) ripen to red or orange after flowering. Pick when fully coloured and slightly soft. Remove the seeds and hairs inside (irritating). Very high in vitamin C; excellent for syrup, tea, and jelly. Leave some for birds in winter.
There are plenty of chokecherries (July-August), currants (August), and roses (August-December) throughout the park here. Some of the best chokecherries are along the path north from the parking lot, by the gazebo. Currants are plentiful farther along the same path, as it passes the small pond. You should be able to find some asparagus (May) along this path as well, particularly in the milkweed patch with the monarch butterfly displays. Roses are scattered—a good patch is south of the pond below the visitors center. Though milkweed should not be harvested in the area with the butterfly displays, there are a few other good patches throughout the area. Cattails (Spring-Fall) are bountiful.
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