Hello,
I found many of these small plants with green leaves on my side yard/alley. They are in bunches and about 5-8 inches tall.
Do you know what kind of plants they are? And edibles or not.
See picture attached.

Many thanks
Aini

They look like wood violets. You will know soon as little viola flowers will appear any minute now. If they are wood violets, yes, the flowers are edible.

Daisy, any chance this is the evasive garlic mustard?

Could be.

Thank you.

The leaves do look like mustard garlic if you don't take size into account.

Thank you so much!!! Both of You are very knowledgeable.
I googled, wood violet and mustard garlic. Then I picked couple of leaves and ate them.
The taste matched mustard garlic as described ; bitter, strong taste, a bit spicy garlicy too. Seems like the Plants is in its first year, never seen them around my yard before.
Thanks again-Aini

You are welcome.

My first thought was also some sort of wild viola but something didn't seem to match and it does look more like Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) considered a non native invasive in many areas of North America.




It's considered invasive in Ontario too:
http://www.invadingspecies.com...
http://ontariowildflowers.com/...