Wild Food Plants

Another splendidly long-lived western wildflower with an edible bulb. Also known as white brodiaea, and fool’s onion, this is a plant that can grow...

One of the most divine prairie species, and possibly the most important wild food plant in parts of the Northwest.  Taller than its sibling common ...

  This wild native mustard boasts nutritious leaves, similar to wild arugula, and sturdy taproots with a peppery kick. Additionally, yellow rocket ...

An extremely showy plant! Much like its relative arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata), Puget balsamroot forms clumps of thick, rough-textu...

Grow and gather wild plants. Seed a permanent food system. Meadows are the art of flowers and grasses run amok. They are also an expression of some...

Edible and extremely drought tolerant Naturally occurring from southern BC southward to California, slimleaf onion arises in the spring with thin, ...

This beautiful creamy-white-flowered plant is a Great Camas subspecies from southern Oregon. Flowering in mid-spring, great white camas is at home ...

Not to be confused with non-native mints such as spearmint, peppermint, pennyroyal, and others, this is our beautifully fragrant native wild mint, ...

A Brief Seasonal Offering: Garry oak (also sometimes described as Oregon white oak) naturally occurs from British Columbia to California. It’s argu...

Possibly the largest and showiest of our native onions, as the name suggests, this is a species of damp spaces. All parts of this 3-foot-tall plant...

One the most esteemed wild food plants of the continent ramps (aka wild leeks) are native to the woodlands of eastern North America -- yet we’ve fo...

Possibly the most storied and legendary of western wildflowers, bitterroot has been esteemed as a food plant, a medicine plant, a plant thought to ...

Where to begin with this extraordinary plant… This is likely one of the oldest cultivated rye varieties in the world. It is a semi-wild plant, a mu...

Sharing characteristics of both garlic and chives, this popular everyday perennial, pan-Asian kitchen herb (technically classified as Allium tubero...

Sometimes called “goose tongue” for the long, slender leaves, this saline tolerant native plantain naturally appears along ocean coastlines virtual...

Delicious, and nutrient-dense, this semi-wild vegetable is also surprisingly easy and interesting to grow. A member of the mustard-family, watercre...