Wild Edible Plants of Quebec

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