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.

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