Oklahoma Foraging Calendar

Western Oklahoma's mixed-grass prairie edge with wild onion, prairie turnip, and rose hips in undisturbed native grassland pockets along the Canadian River and its tributaries.

Southeastern Oklahoma's pine-hardwood forests, with huckleberries, mayhaws, elderberries, black walnuts, and chanterelles in the warm-season woods.

Western Oklahoma's mesa and red-bed canyon country, with prickly pear, cholla, and juniper berries on the tablelands and wild plum and elderberry along the creek drainages.

The Ozark Plateau counties of northeast Oklahoma with morels, chanterelles, hen of the woods, and the pawpaw and persimmon abundance characteristic of the broader Ozark-Ouachita foraging region.

The Oklahoma Panhandle's shortgrass plains, with yucca fruit, wild onions, and prairie turnip surviving in the remnant native grassland between dryland fields.

Central and western Oklahoma's rolling savanna with wild persimmon, Mexican plum, Chickasaw plum, and sand plum growing in draws and along creek margins through the prairie and Cross Timbers landscape.

South-central Oklahoma's blackland prairie and post oak savanna, with mustang grapes, dewberries, and spring morels in the bottomland hardwoods and mayhaws in seasonally flooded ground.

Eastern Oklahoma's Ouachita and Winding Stair mountain forests with spring morels in the river bottoms, chanterelles and chicken of the woods in summer, black walnuts and pawpaws in the creek drainages.