Wild Edible Plants of Newfoundland

This guide covers a number of edible plants in Newfoundland, Canada including the St. John's area and the Gros Morne, Terra Nova, and Torngat Mountains 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. catnip
11. cattail
12. chickweed
13. chicory
14. clover
15. cocklebur
16. coltsfoot
17. common orache
18. common sweet clover
19. cow-lily
20. dandelion
21. dock
22. elephanthead lousewort
23. false solomon's-seal
24. fireweed
25. fleabane
26. fragrant water-lily
27. goldenrod
28. ground ivy
29. high mallow
30. hyssop
31. indian pipe (aka ghost plant)
32. jerusalem artichoke
33. knotweed
34. lamb's quarter (aka pigweed)
35. marsh-marigold
36. mountain sorrel
37. musk mallow
38. mustard
39. northern water plantain
40. oxeye daisy
41. pearly everlasting
42. peppergrass
43. pickleweed (aka glasswort, sea asparagus)
44. pigweed
45. pineapple-weed
46. plantain
47. quickweed
48. roseroot
49. salsify (aka goatsbeard, oyster plant)
50. sea milkwort (aka sea milkweed)
51. seaside sandplant (aka sea sandwort, beach greens)
52. self heal
53. sheep sorrel
54. shepherd's-purse
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. swamp hedge-nettle (aka marsh woundwort)
63. sweet gale (aka bog myrtl)
64. sweetflag
65. thistle
66. violet
67. watercress
68. wild mint
69. wild rose
70. woodsorrel
71. yellow clintonia
72. yellowcress