Wild Edible Plants of Saskatchewan

This guide covers a number of edible plants in Saskatchewan, Canada including the Saskatoon and Regina areas, and the Fort Walsh, Prince Albert and Grasslands 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.

1. arrowhead
2. asparagus
3. bedstraw (aka cleavers)
4. bistort
5. bittercress
6. bugleweed
7. bulrush
8. burdock
9. catnip
10. cattail
11. chickweed
12. chicory
13. clover
14. cocklebur
15. coltsfoot
16. common orache
17. common sweet clover
18. coneflower
19. cow-lily
20. dandelion
21. dock
22. elephanthead lousewort
23. false solomon's-seal
24. fireweed
25. fleabane
26. fragrant water-lily
27. garden orache
28. goldenrod
29. ground ivy
30. high mallow
31. hyssop
32. indian pipe (aka ghost plant)
33. jerusalem artichoke
34. knotweed
35. lamb's quarter (aka pigweed)
36. marsh-marigold
37. musk mallow
38. mustard
39. northern water plantain
40. oxeye daisy
41. pearly everlasting
42. pickleweed (aka glasswort, sea asparagus)
43. pigweed
44. pineapple-weed
45. plantain
46. prairie turnip (aka breadroot)
47. prickly-pear cactus
48. quickweed
49. salsify (aka goatsbeard, oyster plant)
50. sea milkwort (aka sea milkweed)
51. self heal
52. sheep sorrel
53. shepherd's-purse
54. silver orache
55. silverweed (aka cinquefoil)
56. sow thistle
57. speedwell (aka brooklime, gypsyweed)
58. stinging nettle
59. stonecrop
60. stork's-bill
61. strawberry-blite
62. sunflower
63. swamp hedge-nettle (aka marsh woundwort)
64. sweet gale (aka bog myrtl)
65. sweetflag
66. thistle
67. violet
68. watercress
69. wild bergamot (aka horsemint)
70. wild licorice
71. wild mint
72. wild rose
73. wood lily
74. woodsorrel
75. yellowcress