Wild Edible Plants of Yukon

This guide covers a number of edible plants in Yukon, Canada including the Whitehorse area and the Ivvavik, Kluane, and Vuntut 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. arrowhead
2. bedstraw (aka cleavers)
3. bistort
4. bittercress
5. bulrush
6. burdock
7. catnip
8. cattail
9. chickweed
10. chicory
11. clover
12. coltsfoot
13. common orache
14. common sweet clover
15. cow-lily
16. dandelion
17. devils club
18. dock
19. elephanthead lousewort
20. fireweed
21. fleabane
22. garden orache
23. goldenrod
24. ground ivy
25. groundcone
26. knotweed
27. lamb's quarter (aka pigweed)
28. marsh-marigold
29. mountain sorrel
30. mustard
31. oxeye daisy
32. pearly everlasting
33. pickleweed (aka glasswort, sea asparagus)
34. pineapple-weed
35. roseroot
36. salsify (aka goatsbeard, oyster plant)
37. self heal
38. sheep sorrel
39. shepherd's-purse
40. silverweed (aka cinquefoil)
41. sow thistle
42. speedwell (aka brooklime, gypsyweed)
43. stinging nettle
44. stonecrop
45. strawberry-blite
46. swamp hedge-nettle (aka marsh woundwort)
47. sweet gale (aka bog myrtl)
48. sweetflag
49. thistle
50. violet
51. wild mint
52. wild rose
53. yellowcress