The plants of Boreal
Scandinavie, Laponie, Canada, Alaska, Sibérie : conifères, lichens, baies, savoir sami et inuit.
58 entries
HarmlessArctic Willow
Salix arctica
🍽️💊🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
HarmlessBalsam Fir
Abies balsamea
🍽️💊🪓🍁🌲
⚠️ Confusion: White spruce
HarmlessBilberry
Vaccinium myrtillus
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲57 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded for the fruit
HarmlessBlack Alder
Alnus glutinosa
🪓💊🌳🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Hazel
HarmlessBlack crowberry
Empetrum nigrum
🍽️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
HarmlessBlack Spruce
Picea mariana
🍽️💊🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Canada Yew
Low toxicityBlusher mushroom
Amanita rubescens
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Panthercap
HarmlessBramble and Wild Raspberry
Rubus fruticosus / Rubus idaeus
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲53 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded for ripe fruits
DeadlyBrown roll-rim
Paxillus involutus
☠️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: No confusion sought: the risk comes from its repeated traditional consumption
HarmlessCattail and Common Reed
Typha latifolia / Phragmites australis
🍽️🪢🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Yellow iris (rhizome, not to be confused)
HarmlessCauliflower mushroom
Sparassis crispa
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Cauliflower coral
HarmlessChanterelle
Cantharellus cibarius
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲32 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: False chanterelle
HarmlessCloudberry (bakeapple, knotberry)
Rubus chamaemorus
🍽️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicityClover and Daisy
Trifolium repens / pratense — Bellis perennis
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wood sorrel (false clover)
HarmlessCommon Aspen
Populus tremula
🍽️💊🪓🌳🌲🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Black Poplar
Low toxicityCommon Juniper
Juniperus communis
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲90 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: English Yew (DEADLY, red berries and not blue-black)
HarmlessCommon Reed
Phragmites australis
🍽️🏕️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Yellow Floating Iris (Yellow Flag)
DeadlyCowbane / Water hemlock
Cicuta virosa
☠️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Wild parsnip / wild carrot / wild celery
HarmlessCranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
🍽️💊🍁🌲46 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Bittersweet nightshade
HarmlessDandelion
Taraxacum officinale
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️45 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Hawkweeds and sowthistles
HarmlessEastern Hemlock
Tsuga canadensis
🍽️💊🪓🍁🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Poison hemlock or water hemlock (deadly poison, sharing the English name 'hemlock')
DeadlyFalse Morel
Gyromitra esculenta
☠️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Yellow Morel / True Morel
Low toxicityField Horsetail
Equisetum arvense
💊🪓🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Marsh Horsetail
HarmlessFir and Spruce (buds)
Abies alba / Picea abies
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲0 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: English Yew (NEVER CONFUSE with young shoots)
HarmlessFireweed
Epilobium angustifolium (syn. Chamerion angustifolium)
🍽️💊🌳🌲🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion reported
ToxicFly Agaric
Amanita muscaria
☠️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Caesar's mushroom (highly sought-after edible)
DeadlyFuneral Bell
Galerina marginata
☠️🌳🍁🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Edible wood-decaying Pholiota species
HarmlessGarden Angelica (Archangel)
Angelica archangelica
🍽️💊🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Poison Hemlock
HarmlessGiant puffball
Calvatia gigantea
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Deadly young amanitas in the "egg" stage (notably death cap)
HarmlessHoof fungus
Fomes fomentarius
🔥🌲
Low toxicityLabrador Tea
Rhododendron groenlandicum
💊🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Rhododendron tomentosum (marsh Labrador tea)
ToxicLily of the Valley
Convallaria majalis
☠️🌳🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Wild garlic / Ramsons (before flowering)
HarmlessLingonberry (mountain cranberry)
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
🍽️💊🏔️🌲51 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
HarmlessMeadowsweet
Filipendula ulmaria
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicityMorel
Morchella esculenta
🍽️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: False Morel
HarmlessNorthern white-cedar (Eastern arborvitae)
Thuja occidentalis
💊🪓🍁🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Eastern redcedar
Low toxicityOrange birch bolete
Leccinum aurantiacum
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Oak orange bolete / poplar orange bolete
HarmlessOyster Mushroom
Pleurotus ostreatus
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲33 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Jack-o'-lantern mushroom
HarmlessOyster plant (Mertensia maritima)
Mertensia maritima
🍽️🐚🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Sea sandwort
HarmlessPlantain (ribwort and broadleaf)
Plantago lanceolata / Plantago major
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️32 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicityReindeer lichen (cladonia)
Cladonia rangiferina
🍽️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicityRock tripe
Umbilicaria spp.
🍽️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicityRowan
Sorbus aucuparia
🍽️🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Service tree
HarmlessScots pine
Pinus sylvestris
🍽️💊🌳🌲🏔️0 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: English Yew (never confuse with needle arrangement)
HarmlessSea Sandwort
Honckenya peploides
🍽️🐚🍁🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Sea Spurge (toxic)
HarmlessShaggy mane
Coprinus comatus
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Common ink cap
HarmlessSilver Birch
Betula pendula
🍽️💊🪢🌳🌲🏔️24 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicitySorrel
Rumex acetosa
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲22 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Sheep's sorrel
HarmlessSphagnum moss
Sphagnum spp.
🏕️🌲
Low toxicityStinging Nettle
Urtica dioica
🍽️💊🪢🌳🫒🏔️42 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: White dead-nettle (non-stinging)
HarmlessWhite Spruce
Picea glauca
🍽️💊🪢🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Balsam Fir
HarmlessWhite 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)
HarmlessWild lowbush blueberry / wild blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
🍽️💊🍁🌲57 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Buckthorn (European buckthorn)
HarmlessWild Raspberry
Rubus idaeus
🍽️💊🏔️🌲52 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Bramble / Common Blackberry
HarmlessWood Hedgehog
Hydnum repandum
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known toxic species
Low toxicityYarrow
Achillea millefolium
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicityYellow Water-lily
Nuphar lutea
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Yellow Iris (margin rhizome, not to be confused)
HarmlessYellowfoot chanterelle
Craterellus tubaeformis
🍽️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Golden chanterelle