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When I lived in Colorado and Utah, I used to pick up to 65 lbs of wild Asparagus each Spring. It grew along roadside irrigation ditches, and riverbanks.

Here in California, two of the first flowering plants are wild mustard and wild radish. I don't like radishes, and it seems like too much work to crush mustard seeds to make mustard. I think I will try it one day, just to say I tried it. One spring edible I've tried is wild artichoke. It tastes good enough, but the thorns are awful, and the rewards are small. Thank goodness the commercial varieties have their thorns inbred into little incurved nubs.

Every Spring, someone locally gets severely poisoned by cooking up Ammonita (deathcap) mushrooms. I don't like mushrooms, but if I did, that's one I'd be very wary of.