Wild Edible Plants of Manitoba

This guide covers a number of edible plants in Manitoba, Canada including the Winnipeg area, the Wapusk National Park and the Riding Mountain National Park.. 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. asparagus
3. bedstraw (aka cleavers)
4. bistort
5. bittercress
6. bracken
7. bugleweed
8. bulrush
9. burdock
10. catnip
11. cattail
12. chickweed
13. chicory
14. clover
15. cocklebur
16. coltsfoot
17. common orache
18. common sweet clover
19. coneflower
20. cow-lily
21. dandelion
22. ditch-stonecrop
23. dock
24. elephanthead lousewort
25. false solomon's-seal
26. fireweed
27. fleabane
28. fragrant water-lily
29. garden orache
30. goldenrod
31. ground ivy
32. high mallow
33. hyssop
34. indian pipe (aka ghost plant)
35. jerusalem artichoke
36. knotweed
37. lamb's quarter (aka pigweed)
38. marsh-marigold
39. musk mallow
40. mustard
41. northern water plantain
42. oxeye daisy
43. pearly everlasting
44. pickleweed (aka glasswort, sea asparagus)
45. pigweed
46. pineapple-weed
47. plantain
48. prairie turnip (aka breadroot)
49. prickly-pear cactus
50. quickweed
51. salsify (aka goatsbeard, oyster plant)
52. sea milkwort (aka sea milkweed)
53. self heal
54. sheep sorrel
55. shepherd's-purse
56. silver orache
57. silverweed (aka cinquefoil)
58. sow thistle
59. speedwell (aka brooklime, gypsyweed)
60. stinging nettle
61. stonecrop
62. stork's-bill
63. strawberry-blite
64. sunflower
65. swamp hedge-nettle (aka marsh woundwort)
66. sweet gale (aka bog myrtl)
67. sweetflag
68. thistle
69. violet
70. watercress
71. wild bergamot (aka horsemint)
72. wild licorice
73. wild mint
74. wild rose
75. wood betony
76. wood lily
77. woodsorrel
78. yellow clintonia
79. yellowcress