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🌲 58 entries · 45 edible · 4 deadly

The plants of Boreal

Scandinavie, Laponie, Canada, Alaska, Sibérie : conifères, lichens, baies, savoir sami et inuit.

58 entries
Harmless

Arctic Willow

Salix arctica
🍽️💊🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Harmless

Balsam Fir

Abies balsamea
🍽️💊🪓🍁🌲
⚠️ Confusion: White spruce
Harmless

Bilberry

Vaccinium myrtillus
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲57 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded for the fruit
Harmless

Black Alder

Alnus glutinosa
🪓💊🌳🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Hazel
Harmless

Black crowberry

Empetrum nigrum
🍽️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Harmless

Black Spruce

Picea mariana
🍽️💊🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Canada Yew
Low toxicity

Blusher mushroom

Amanita rubescens
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Panthercap
Harmless

Bramble and Wild Raspberry

Rubus fruticosus / Rubus idaeus
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲53 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded for ripe fruits
Deadly

Brown roll-rim

Paxillus involutus
☠️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: No confusion sought: the risk comes from its repeated traditional consumption
Harmless

Cattail and Common Reed

Typha latifolia / Phragmites australis
🍽️🪢🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Yellow iris (rhizome, not to be confused)
Harmless

Cauliflower mushroom

Sparassis crispa
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Cauliflower coral
Harmless

Chanterelle

Cantharellus cibarius
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲32 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: False chanterelle
Harmless

Cloudberry (bakeapple, knotberry)

Rubus chamaemorus
🍽️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicity

Clover and Daisy

Trifolium repens / pratense — Bellis perennis
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wood sorrel (false clover)
Harmless

Common Aspen

Populus tremula
🍽️💊🪓🌳🌲🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Black Poplar
Low toxicity

Common Juniper

Juniperus communis
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲90 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: English Yew (DEADLY, red berries and not blue-black)
Harmless

Common Reed

Phragmites australis
🍽️🏕️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Yellow Floating Iris (Yellow Flag)
Deadly

Cowbane / Water hemlock

Cicuta virosa
☠️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Wild parsnip / wild carrot / wild celery
Harmless

Cranberry

Vaccinium macrocarpon
🍽️💊🍁🌲46 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Bittersweet nightshade
Harmless

Dandelion

Taraxacum officinale
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️45 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Hawkweeds and sowthistles
Harmless

Eastern Hemlock

Tsuga canadensis
🍽️💊🪓🍁🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Poison hemlock or water hemlock (deadly poison, sharing the English name 'hemlock')
Deadly

False Morel

Gyromitra esculenta
☠️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Yellow Morel / True Morel
Low toxicity

Field Horsetail

Equisetum arvense
💊🪓🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Marsh Horsetail
Harmless

Fir and Spruce (buds)

Abies alba / Picea abies
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲0 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: English Yew (NEVER CONFUSE with young shoots)
Harmless

Fireweed

Epilobium angustifolium (syn. Chamerion angustifolium)
🍽️💊🌳🌲🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion reported
Toxic

Fly Agaric

Amanita muscaria
☠️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Caesar's mushroom (highly sought-after edible)
Deadly

Funeral Bell

Galerina marginata
☠️🌳🍁🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Edible wood-decaying Pholiota species
Harmless

Garden Angelica (Archangel)

Angelica archangelica
🍽️💊🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Poison Hemlock
Harmless

Giant puffball

Calvatia gigantea
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Deadly young amanitas in the "egg" stage (notably death cap)
Harmless

Hoof fungus

Fomes fomentarius
🔥🌲
Low toxicity

Labrador Tea

Rhododendron groenlandicum
💊🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Rhododendron tomentosum (marsh Labrador tea)
Toxic

Lily of the Valley

Convallaria majalis
☠️🌳🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Wild garlic / Ramsons (before flowering)
Harmless

Lingonberry (mountain cranberry)

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
🍽️💊🏔️🌲51 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Harmless

Meadowsweet

Filipendula ulmaria
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicity

Morel

Morchella esculenta
🍽️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: False Morel
Harmless

Northern white-cedar (Eastern arborvitae)

Thuja occidentalis
💊🪓🍁🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Eastern redcedar
Low toxicity

Orange birch bolete

Leccinum aurantiacum
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Oak orange bolete / poplar orange bolete
Harmless

Oyster Mushroom

Pleurotus ostreatus
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲33 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Jack-o'-lantern mushroom
Harmless

Oyster plant (Mertensia maritima)

Mertensia maritima
🍽️🐚🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Sea sandwort
Harmless

Plantain (ribwort and broadleaf)

Plantago lanceolata / Plantago major
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️32 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicity

Reindeer lichen (cladonia)

Cladonia rangiferina
🍽️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicity

Rock tripe

Umbilicaria spp.
🍽️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicity

Rowan

Sorbus aucuparia
🍽️🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Service tree
Harmless

Scots pine

Pinus sylvestris
🍽️💊🌳🌲🏔️0 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: English Yew (never confuse with needle arrangement)
Harmless

Sea Sandwort

Honckenya peploides
🍽️🐚🍁🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Sea Spurge (toxic)
Harmless

Shaggy mane

Coprinus comatus
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Common ink cap
Harmless

Silver Birch

Betula pendula
🍽️💊🪢🌳🌲🏔️24 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicity

Sorrel

Rumex acetosa
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲22 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Sheep's sorrel
Harmless

Sphagnum moss

Sphagnum spp.
🏕️🌲
Low toxicity

Stinging Nettle

Urtica dioica
🍽️💊🪢🌳🫒🏔️42 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: White dead-nettle (non-stinging)
Harmless

White Spruce

Picea glauca
🍽️💊🪢🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Balsam Fir
Harmless

White Willow

Salix alba
💊🪢🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion reported among willows (the genus Salix includes many species and hybrids, all sharing similar properties in their bark)
Harmless

Wild lowbush blueberry / wild blueberry

Vaccinium angustifolium
🍽️💊🍁🌲57 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Buckthorn (European buckthorn)
Harmless

Wild Raspberry

Rubus idaeus
🍽️💊🏔️🌲52 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Bramble / Common Blackberry
Harmless

Wood Hedgehog

Hydnum repandum
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known toxic species
Low toxicity

Yarrow

Achillea millefolium
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicity

Yellow Water-lily

Nuphar lutea
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Yellow Iris (margin rhizome, not to be confused)
Harmless

Yellowfoot chanterelle

Craterellus tubaeformis
🍽️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Golden chanterelle