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...

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

We know a spot...a mowed, grassy parking lot, of thin, sandy, compacted soil. It’s a place where saltwater from the close-by beach saturates the ro...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Also known as alpine coltsfoot, this  large leafy plant (roughly reminiscent of rhubarb) is an inhabitant of moist, full sun to partially shaded gr...

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...

While we aren’t yet ready to call this a landrace variety, this chives population has does quite well for us in the maritime rain shadow region of ...

Good King Henry is an archaic, centuries-old perennial vegetable of many interesting names: poor-man’s asparagus, Lincolnshire spinach and various ...

The flower petals of this native West Coast lily are frequently (and justifiably) compared to the fuzzy ears of cat. They might also be compared to...

Emerging in spring, the nodding white cups of this incomparable California wildflower are completely enigmatic. White fairy lantern is a woodland s...

Also known as early cress, creasy greens are a traditional foraged spring vegetable in the eastern and southeastern U.S., a peppery cool-season wil...

Sometimes called garden oseille. This semi-wild, perennial peasant vegetable of mostly French origin (although it occurs across the Mediterranean),...

Our native western (and Great Lakes region) hawthorn is a tree of exceptional uses!  While the small black fruit is edible (in haw jelly, etc.), ...