Wild Edible Plants of Nunavut

This guide covers a number of edible plants in Nunavut, Canada including the Iqaluit area. 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. bulrush
6. burdock
7. catnip
8. chickweed
9. chicory
10. clover
11. coltsfoot
12. common orache
13. common sweet clover
14. cow-lily
15. dandelion
16. dock
17. fireweed
18. fleabane
19. goldenrod
20. ground ivy
21. knotweed
22. lamb's quarter (aka pigweed)
23. marsh-marigold
24. mountain sorrel
25. mustard
26. oxeye daisy
27. pearly everlasting
28. pickleweed (aka glasswort, sea asparagus)
29. pineapple-weed
30. plantain
31. roseroot
32. salsify (aka goatsbeard, oyster plant)
33. sea milkwort (aka sea milkweed)
34. self heal
35. sheep sorrel
36. shepherd's-purse
37. silverweed (aka cinquefoil)
38. stinging nettle
39. strawberry-blite
40. swamp hedge-nettle (aka marsh woundwort)
41. sweet gale (aka bog myrtl)
42. sweetflag
43. thistle
44. violet
45. wild mint
46. yellowcress