Wild Edible Plants of Labrador

This guide covers a number of edible plants in Labrador, Canada including the Happy Valley – Goose Bay and Labrador City areas and the Torngat Mountains National Park. 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.

1. arrowhead
2. asparagus
3. bedstraw (aka cleavers)
4. bistort
5. bittercress
6. bracken
7. bugleweed
8. bulrush
9. burdock
10. catnip
11. chickweed
12. chicory
13. clover
14. cocklebur
15. coltsfoot
16. common orache
17. common sweet clover
18. cow-lily
19. dandelion
20. dock
21. elephanthead lousewort
22. fireweed
23. fleabane
24. goldenrod
25. ground ivy
26. high mallow
27. hyssop
28. indian pipe (aka ghost plant)
29. jerusalem artichoke
30. knotweed
31. lamb's quarter (aka pigweed)
32. marsh-marigold
33. mountain sorrel
34. musk mallow
35. mustard
36. oxeye daisy
37. pearly everlasting
38. pickleweed (aka glasswort, sea asparagus)
39. pigweed
40. pineapple-weed
41. plantain
42. quickweed
43. roseroot
44. salsify (aka goatsbeard, oyster plant)
45. seaside sandplant (aka sea sandwort, beach greens)
46. self heal
47. sheep sorrel
48. shepherd's-purse
49. silverweed (aka cinquefoil)
50. sow thistle
51. speedwell (aka brooklime, gypsyweed)
52. stinging nettle
53. stonecrop
54. stork's-bill
55. strawberry-blite
56. swamp hedge-nettle (aka marsh woundwort)
57. sweet gale (aka bog myrtl)
58. sweetflag
59. thistle
60. violet
61. watercress
62. wild mint
63. woodsorrel
64. yellow clintonia
65. yellowcress