Wild Edible Plants of New Brunswick

This guide covers a number of edible plants in New Brunswick, Canada including the Fredericton, Saint John, and Moncton areas and the Fundy and Kouchibouguac 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. bracken
7. bugleweed
8. bulrush
9. burdock
10. canada lily
11. carrion flower
12. catnip
13. cattail
14. chickweed
15. chicory
16. chufa
17. clover
18. cocklebur
19. coltsfoot
20. common orache
21. common sweet clover
22. cow-lily
23. dandelion
24. ditch-stonecrop
25. dock
26. false solomon's-seal
27. fireweed
28. fleabane
29. fragrant water-lily
30. ginseng
31. goldenrod
32. greenbrier
33. ground ivy
34. groundnut (aka potato bean)
35. high mallow
36. hyssop
37. indian pipe (aka ghost plant)
38. jerusalem artichoke
39. knotweed
40. lamb's quarter (aka pigweed)
41. marsh-marigold
42. musk mallow
43. mustard
44. northern water plantain
45. oxeye daisy
46. pearly everlasting
47. peppergrass
48. pickerel weed
49. pickleweed (aka glasswort, sea asparagus)
50. pigweed
51. pineapple-weed
52. plantain
53. quickweed
54. roseroot
55. salsify (aka goatsbeard, oyster plant)
56. sea milkwort (aka sea milkweed)
57. seaside sandplant (aka sea sandwort, beach greens)
58. self heal
59. sheep sorrel
60. shepherd's-purse
61. silverweed (aka cinquefoil)
62. sow thistle
63. speedwell (aka brooklime, gypsyweed)
64. stinging nettle
65. stonecrop
66. stork's-bill
67. strawberry-blite
68. swamp hedge-nettle (aka marsh woundwort)
69. sweet gale (aka bog myrtl)
70. sweetflag
71. thistle
72. violet
73. watercress
74. wild mint
75. wild rose
76. wood betony
77. woodsorrel
78. yellow clintonia
79. yellowcress