Wild Edible Plants of Northwest Territories

This guide covers a number of edible plants in Northwest Territories, Canada including the Yellowknife area and the Aulavik, Nahanni, Pingo, Tuktut Nogait, and Wood Buffalo 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. bedstraw (aka cleavers)
3. bistort
4. bittercress
5. bugleweed
6. bulrush
7. burdock
8. catnip
9. cattail
10. chickweed
11. chicory
12. clover
13. coltsfoot
14. common orache
15. common sweet clover
16. cow-lily
17. dandelion
18. dock
19. fireweed
20. fleabane
21. goldenrod
22. ground ivy
23. groundcone
24. knotweed
25. lamb's quarter (aka pigweed)
26. marsh-marigold
27. mountain sorrel
28. mustard
29. oxeye daisy
30. pearly everlasting
31. pickleweed (aka glasswort, sea asparagus)
32. pineapple-weed
33. plantain
34. roseroot
35. salsify (aka goatsbeard, oyster plant)
36. sea milkwort (aka sea milkweed)
37. self heal
38. sheep sorrel
39. shepherd's-purse
40. silverweed (aka cinquefoil)
41. sow thistle
42. speedwell (aka brooklime, gypsyweed)
43. stinging nettle
44. strawberry-blite
45. swamp hedge-nettle (aka marsh woundwort)
46. sweet gale (aka bog myrtl)
47. sweetflag
48. thistle
49. violet
50. wild mint
51. wild rose
52. yellowcress