Good Tasting Wild Edible Plants – USA

Weeds are but plants for which we have not found sufficient use. But how unfair! Wild edibles, when one is sure they are edible and not poisonous, are usually nutritionally superior to their more civilized man-grown cousins. Add them to your salads or munch in the wild, but watch out – the sometimes strong flavor can be a bit overwhelming!

Thanks to Andrew P. Firk (former owner of Wild Harvest Herbs) for compiling the Eastern list, and to W.I.L.D. for the Western
U.S. list.

Salad Greens	Roots & Tubers	Teas	Fruits	Nuts, Seeds & Grains	Seasonings
Eastern USA
Wild Asparagus	Indian Cucumber	Peppermint	Wild Strawberry	Sunflower	Wild Onion
Watercress	Jerusalem Artichoke	Spearmint	Red & Black Raspberry	Black Walnut	Peppergrass
Sourcress	Day Lily	Sassafras	Wild Grape	American Hazelnut	Wild Garlic
Chickweed	Burdock	Sweetfern	Highbush Bluebery	Shagbark Hickory	Shepherd’s Purse
Purslane	Wild Leek	Labrador Tea	Common Blackberry	Wild Rice	Garlic Mustard
Young Chicory Leaves	–	Yarrow	Beach Plum	–	–
Young Dandelion Leaves	–	–	White & Red Mulberry	–	–
Young Pokewood Shoots	–	–	Wine Berry	–	–
Lamb’s-quarters	–	–	Black Hucklebery	–	–
Wintercress	–	–	Juneberry	–	–
Western USA
Miner’s Letuce	Brodacia	Pennyroyal	Elderberry	Acorn	Sages
Curly Dock	Yampa	Sages	Manzanita	Chia	Fennel
Filaree	Cattail	Sagebrush	Holly Leaf Cherry	Chinquapin	Juniper
Nettle	Biscuit Root	Mormon Tea	Cactus Pear	Mesquite	Wild Onions
New Zealand Spinach	Mariposa Lily	–	Sugar Bush	Tule-Bulrush	Wild Mustards
Desert Holly	Cames	–	Goosebery-Currant	–	–
Violet	–	–	–	–	–

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