Texas Foraging Calendar

North Texas's rolling plains and Red River bottomlands, with morels in the cottonwood river bottoms and wild plums, chokecherries, and rose hips along the grassland margins.

East Texas pine-hardwood forests sharing the foraging culture of the Deep South, with huckleberries, mayhaws, elderberries, chanterelles, and chicken of the woods through the warm growing season.

Mesa and canyon country of the Texas Panhandle and the Cap Rock escarpment with prickly pear, cholla, juniper berries, and wild plum growing along creek drainages and canyon walls.

Panhandle shortgrass prairie with wild onion, yucca fruit, and prairie turnip surviving in remnant native grassland patches between the dryland agricultural fields that dominate the landscape.

North Texas and southern Oklahoma savanna with wild persimmon, Mexican plum, and Chickasaw plum growing in creek drainages and woody draws across the rolling prairie landscape.

Far west Texas's Davis and Guadalupe sky island ranges, where summer monsoon rains trigger bolete and chanterelle flushes and piñon nuts and manzanita berries ripen in fall.

Rich central Texas bottomland hardwoods with spring morels along creek corridors, mustang grapes through summer, dewberries in spring, and mayhaws in seasonally flooded areas of the Post Oak transition.

Texas coastal salt marshes and prairies with year-round sea purslane and glasswort in the marsh, dewberries in spring, and mustang grapes along bayou edges through the mild coastal winters.

Far west Texas desert with sotol crowns, lechuguilla hearts, prickly pear, cholla buds, and yucca fruit harvestable in the cooler shoulder seasons around the extreme summer heat.

Limestone plateau landmark for the distinctive spring agarita berry harvest, Texas persimmon ripening in late summer, mustang grape through the summer months, and prickly pear year-round.