This guide covers a number of edible plants in British Columbia, Canada including the Vancouver area, the Gulf Islands, Haida Gwaii, and the Kootenay, Yoho, Mount Revelstoke, and Glacier 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.

- agoseris
- arrow-leaved balsamroot
- arrowhead
- asparagus
- beargrass
- bedstraw (aka cleavers)
- bistort
- bittercress
- bitterroot
- bracken
- bugleweed
- bulrush
- burdock
- camas (aka blue camas)
- catnip
- cattail
- chickweed
- chicory
- chufa
- clover
- cocklebur
- coltsfoot
- common orache
- common sweet clover
- cow-lily
- dandelion
- devils club
- dock
- elephanthead lousewort
- false solomon’s-seal
- fireweed
- fleabane
- fragrant water-lily
- garden orache
- goldenrod
- ground ivy
- groundcone
- high mallow
- indian pipe (aka ghost plant)
- jerusalem artichoke
- knotweed
- lamb’s quarter (aka pigweed)
- largeflower triteleia
- mariposa-lily
- marsh-marigold
- miner’s lettuce
- mountain sorrel
- musk mallow
- mustard
- northern water plantain
- oxeye daisy
- pearly everlasting
- peppergrass
- pickleweed (aka glasswort, sea asparagus)
- pigweed
- pineapple-weed
- plantain
- prickly-pear cactus
- queen’s cup
- quickweed
- roseroot
- salsify (aka goatsbeard, oyster plant)
- sea milkwort (aka sea milkweed)
- self heal
- sheep sorrel
- shepherd’s-purse
- siberian miner’s lettuce
- silver orache
- silverweed (aka cinquefoil)
- sow thistle
- speedwell (aka brooklime, gypsyweed)
- stinging nettle
- stonecrop
- stork’s-bill
- strawberry-blite
- sunflower
- swamp hedge-nettle (aka marsh woundwort)
- sweet gale (aka bog myrtl)
- sweetflag
- thistle
- tiger lily (aka columbia lily)
- violet
- watercress
- wild bergamot (aka horsemint)
- wild licorice
- wild mint
- wild rose
- wood lily
- woodsorrel
- yellow glacier-lily (aka snow-lily)
- yellowcress