Wild Edible Plants of Prince Edward Island

This guide covers a number of edible plants in Prince Edward Island, Canada including the Charlottetown area and the Prince Edward Island National Park. 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. bittercress
5. bracken
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. cow-lily
19. dandelion
20. dock
21. fireweed
22. fleabane
23. fragrant water-lily
24. ginseng
25. goldenrod
26. ground ivy
27. groundnut (aka potato bean)
28. high mallow
29. hyssop
30. indian pipe (aka ghost plant)
31. jerusalem artichoke
32. knotweed
33. lamb's quarter (aka pigweed)
34. marsh-marigold
35. musk mallow
36. mustard
37. oxeye daisy
38. pearly everlasting
39. peppergrass
40. pickerel weed
41. pickleweed (aka glasswort, sea asparagus)
42. pigweed
43. pineapple-weed
44. plantain
45. quickweed
46. salsify (aka goatsbeard, oyster plant)
47. sea milkwort (aka sea milkweed)
48. seaside sandplant (aka sea sandwort, beach greens)
49. self heal
50. sheep sorrel
51. shepherd's-purse
52. silverweed (aka cinquefoil)
53. sow thistle
54. speedwell (aka brooklime, gypsyweed)
55. stinging nettle
56. stonecrop
57. stork's-bill
58. strawberry-blite
59. swamp hedge-nettle (aka marsh woundwort)
60. sweet gale (aka bog myrtl)
61. sweetflag
62. thistle
63. violet
64. watercress
65. wild mint
66. wild rose
67. woodsorrel
68. yellow clintonia
69. yellowcress