The plants of Mediterranean
Garrigue, maquis, pinèdes, côtes rocheuses : aromatiques, chênes verts, cactées naturalisées.
85 entries
HarmlessAlfalfa
Medicago sativa
🍽️💊🌳🫒23 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Red Clover (Trifolium pratense), also edible
Low toxicityAloe vera
Aloe vera
💊🍽️🏜️🫒🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Agave (ex. Agave parryi, Agave americana)
HarmlessBay Laurel
Laurus nobilis
🍽️💊🫒313 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Oleander
HarmlessBeefsteak fungus
Fistulina hepatica
🍽️🌳🫒🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Tender nesting polypore
DeadlyBlack Henbane
Hyoscyamus niger
☠️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No common edible confusion at adult stage
ToxicBlack Nightshade
Solanum nigrum
☠️🌳🫒🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Wild Bilberry / Blueberry (black berries)
Low toxicityBlackthorn (sloe)
Prunus spinosa
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wild cherry or escaped cultivated plum
HarmlessCaesar's mushroom
Amanita caesarea
🍽️🫒🌳
⚠️ Confusion: Fly agaric, washed-out form
HarmlessCaper bush
Capparis spinosa
🍽️🫒23 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
HarmlessCarob Tree
Ceratonia siliqua
🍽️🫒222 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
DeadlyCastor Oil Plant
Ricinus communis
☠️🫒🌴🌍
⚠️ Confusion: No common edible look-alike
Low toxicityCaulerpa taxifolia ("killer alga")
Caulerpa taxifolia
☠️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Other caulerpa species and edible green filamentous algae harvested by mistake in the Mediterranean
HarmlessChickweed
Stellaria media
🍽️💊🌳🫒🍁20 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Scarlet pimpernel
HarmlessChicory
Cichorium intybus
🍽️💊🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Cornflower (blue flowers as well, but completely different plant)
HarmlessCleavers
Galium aparine
🍽️💊🪢🌳🏔️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicityClover and Daisy
Trifolium repens / pratense — Bellis perennis
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wood sorrel (false clover)
ToxicColocynth (bitter apple)
Citrullus colocynthis
☠️🏜️🫒🌍
⚠️ Confusion: Wild / cultivated watermelon
ToxicCommon Box
Buxus sempervirens
☠️🪓🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Wild Privet
Low toxicityCommon Fig
Ficus carica
🍽️💊🫒74 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
HarmlessCommon Hawthorn
Crataegus monogyna
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicityCommon Holly
Ilex aquifolium
☠️🪓💊🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Holly Osmanthus (False Holly, planted as ornamental)
Low toxicityCommon Juniper
Juniperus communis
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲90 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: English Yew (DEADLY, red berries and not blue-black)
HarmlessCommon mallow
Malva sylvestris
🍽️💊🌳🫒46 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: aucune confusion dangereuse répertoriée
HarmlessCommon Myrtle
Myrtus communis
🍽️💊🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
HarmlessCommon Nipplewort
Lapsana communis
🍽️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Common sow thistle or common groundsel at a young stage
HarmlessCommon purslane
Portulaca oleracea
🍽️🫒16 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Petty spurge
HarmlessCommon sow thistle (smooth sow thistle)
Sonchus oleraceus
🍽️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Prickly sow thistle (Sonchus asper), also edible
HarmlessCommon thyme
Thymus vulgaris
🍽️💊🫒101 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Wild thyme
HarmlessCommon Walnut
Juglans regia
🍽️💊🌳🫒654 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: American Black Walnut (introduced species, edible fruit as well but harder shell)
HarmlessCork Oak
Quercus suber
🍽️🪓🏕️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Holm Oak
HarmlessDandelion
Taraxacum officinale
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️45 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Hawkweeds and sowthistles
DeadlyDatura (Jimsonweed)
Datura stramonium
☠️🌳🫒🍁
⚠️ Confusion: No frequent wild food confusion
DeadlyDeadly Nightshade
Atropa belladonna
☠️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Bilberry / Wild Blueberry
HarmlessDog rose
Rosa canina
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️162 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicityElderberry
Sambucus nigra
🍽️💊🌳🫒73 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Dwarf elder (herbaceous, not to be confused)
DeadlyEnglish Yew
Taxus baccata
☠️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Silver Fir
HarmlessEuropean Hop-Hornbeam / Mediterranean Hackberry
Celtis australis
🍽️🪓🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Field Elm
HarmlessFairy ring mushroom
Marasmius oreades
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Deadly white Clitocybes (including the fool's funnel)
HarmlessFat-hen
Chenopodium album
🍽️🌳🫒🍁43 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Fig-leaved goosefoot / other goosefoots
HarmlessField mushroom
Agaricus campestris
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Destroying angel
ToxicGiant Fennel
Ferula communis
☠️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Wild Fennel
DeadlyHemlock water-dropwort
Oenanthe crocata
☠️🌳🫒🐚
⚠️ Confusion: Wild parsnip or wild celery
Low toxicityHolm Oak
Quercus ilex
🍽️🫒387 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Cork Oak
HarmlessMastic tree
Pistacia lentiscus
🍽️💊🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Terebinth
Low toxicityOak (pedunculate and sessile)
Quercus robur / Quercus petraea
🍽️💊🌳🫒387 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion (acorns are unambiguously identifiable)
DeadlyOleander
Nerium oleander
☠️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Bay laurel (edible)
HarmlessParasol Mushroom
Macrolepiota procera
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Small brown lepiotas (deadly dapperling and related species)
ToxicPennyroyal
Mentha pulegium
☠️💊🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Water mint or other mints edible in moderation
HarmlessPlantain (ribwort and broadleaf)
Plantago lanceolata / Plantago major
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️32 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
DeadlyPoison hemlock
Conium maculatum
☠️🌳🫒🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Wild chervil / cow parsley
HarmlessPoplar fieldcap
Cyclocybe aegerita
🍽️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Destructive pholiota
HarmlessPorcini Mushroom
Boletus edulis
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Satan's Bolete
HarmlessPrickly Pear
Opuntia ficus-indica
🍽️🏜️🫒16 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
HarmlessPrickly saltwort (Russian thistle)
Salsola kali
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous toxic look-alikes
HarmlessRock samphire (sea fennel)
Crithmum maritimum
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Other coastal Apiaceae, some of which are toxic (e.g., hemlock water-dropwort in nearby wet areas)
HarmlessRosemary
Salvia rosmarinus (syn. Rosmarinus officinalis)
🍽️💊🫒131 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Tree heath
HarmlessSaffron milkcap
Lactarius deliciosus
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Woolly milkcap
ToxicSatan's Bolete
Rubroboletus satanas
☠️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Edible red-pored boletes (scarletina bolete cooked, etc.)
HarmlessSea beet (Wild chard)
Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
HarmlessSea lavender (statice)
Limonium vulgare
🍽️💊🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Sea aster
HarmlessSea purslane
Halimione portulacoides
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Pedunculate sea-purslane (rare)
HarmlessSea rocket
Cakile maritima
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Sea kale
ToxicSea Spurge
Euphorbia paralias
☠️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Sea Sandwort (edible)
ToxicSea squill
Drimia maritima (syn. Urginea maritima)
☠️🫒
HarmlessService tree (corm)
Sorbus domestica
🍽️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Rowan / Mountain ash, also edible (after bletting/cooking)
HarmlessShaggy mane
Coprinus comatus
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Common ink cap
HarmlessShepherd's purse
Capsella bursa-pastoris
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no notable dangerous confusion
HarmlessSlender Gracilaria
Gracilaria gracilis
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Other filamentous red seaweeds
HarmlessSpear Thistle (Bull Thistle)
Cirsium vulgare
🍽️🌳🏔️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Low toxicitySt. John's Wort
Hypericum perforatum
💊☠️🌳🫒🏔️
Low toxicityStinging Nettle
Urtica dioica
🍽️💊🪢🌳🫒🏔️42 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: White dead-nettle (non-stinging)
ToxicStinking hellebore
Helleborus foetidus
☠️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No common edible confusion
HarmlessStrawberry tree
Arbutus unedo
🍽️🫒65 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
ToxicSun spurge
Euphorbia helioscopia
☠️🌳🫒🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Various non-laticiferous young vegetable shoots
HarmlessSweet Chestnut
Castanea sativa
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️245 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Horse Chestnut
HarmlessSweet Violet
Viola odorata
🍽️💊🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Early Dog-violet (scentless)
HarmlessWakame
Undaria pinnatifida
🍽️🐚🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Oarweed / Kelp (kombu)
ToxicWhite Bryony
Bryonia dioica
☠️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Wild Grapevine (foliage)
HarmlessWhite Mulberry
Morus alba
🍽️🪢🪓🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Paper Mulberry
Low toxicityWild asparagus
Asparagus acutifolius
🍽️🫒20 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Garden asparagus escaped from cultivation
HarmlessWild Carrot
Daucus carota
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Poison Hemlock (DEADLY)
HarmlessWild fennel
Foeniculum vulgare
🍽️💊🫒31 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Giant fennel
HarmlessWild Oregano (Wild Marjoram)
Origanum vulgare
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wild mint or calamint (similar scents, but aromatic and edible as well)
Low toxicityWild parsnip
Pastinaca sativa
🍽️🌳🫒
⚠️ Confusion: no deadly confusion recorded thanks to the yellow color of the umbel, which is rare among toxic European Apiaceae
HarmlessWild Thyme
Thymus serpyllum
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Common thyme