Wild Edible Plants of British Columbia


This guide covers a number of edible plants in British Columbia, Canada including the Vancouver area, the Gulf Islands, Haida Gwaii, and the Kootenay, Yoho, Mount Revelstoke, and Glacier National Parks. Do not collect where prohibited.

This guide focuses on wild edible plants that that are relatively easy to identify and have no deadly poisonous look-alikes.

All plant parts described as being edible raw are also edible (and often more palatable) when cooked.



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  1. agoseris
  2. arrow-leaved balsamroot
  3. arrowhead
  4. asparagus
  5. beargrass
  6. bedstraw (aka cleavers)
  7. bistort
  8. bittercress
  9. bitterroot
  10. bracken
  11. bugleweed
  12. bulrush
  13. burdock
  14. camas (aka blue camas)
  15. catnip
  16. cattail
  17. chickweed
  18. chicory
  19. chufa
  20. clover
  21. cocklebur
  22. coltsfoot
  23. common orache
  24. common sweet clover
  25. cow-lily
  26. dandelion
  27. devils club
  28. dock
  29. elephanthead lousewort
  30. false solomon's-seal
  31. fireweed
  32. fleabane
  33. fragrant water-lily
  34. garden orache
  35. goldenrod
  36. ground ivy
  37. groundcone
  38. high mallow
  39. indian pipe (aka ghost plant)
  40. jerusalem artichoke
  41. knotweed
  42. lamb's quarter (aka pigweed)
  43. largeflower triteleia
  44. mariposa-lily
  45. marsh-marigold
  46. miner's lettuce
  47. mountain sorrel
  48. musk mallow
  49. mustard
  50. northern water plantain
  51. oxeye daisy
  52. pearly everlasting
  53. peppergrass
  54. pickleweed (aka glasswort, sea asparagus)
  55. pigweed
  56. pineapple-weed
  57. plantain
  58. prickly-pear cactus
  59. queen's cup
  60. quickweed
  61. roseroot
  62. salsify (aka goatsbeard, oyster plant)
  63. sea milkwort (aka sea milkweed)
  64. self heal
  65. sheep sorrel
  66. shepherd's-purse
  67. siberian miner's lettuce
  68. silver orache
  69. silverweed (aka cinquefoil)
  70. sow thistle
  71. speedwell (aka brooklime, gypsyweed)
  72. stinging nettle
  73. stonecrop
  74. stork's-bill
  75. strawberry-blite
  76. sunflower
  77. swamp hedge-nettle (aka marsh woundwort)
  78. sweet gale (aka bog myrtl)
  79. sweetflag
  80. thistle
  81. tiger lily (aka columbia lily)
  82. violet
  83. watercress
  84. wild bergamot (aka horsemint)
  85. wild licorice
  86. wild mint
  87. wild rose
  88. wood lily
  89. woodsorrel
  90. yellow glacier-lily (aka snow-lily)
  91. yellowcress

 

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