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🏔️ 104 entries · 80 edible · 6 deadly

The plants of Mountains

Alpes, Pyrénées, Massif central, Jura : étages subalpin et alpin, la confusion gentiane-vératre en tête.

104 entries
Toxic

Alpenrose

Rhododendron ferrugineum
☠️🏔️
Low toxicity

Alpine Sorrel

Rumex alpinus
🍽️🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: White False Hellebore
Deadly

Autumn crocus

Colchicum autumnale
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wild garlic (young spring leaves)
Harmless

Bay bolete

Imleria badia
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Satan's bolete
Harmless

Bilberry

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

Blackthorn (sloe)

Prunus spinosa
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wild cherry or escaped cultivated plum
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
Low toxicity

Butterbur (pestilence wort)

Petasites hybridus
💊☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Colt's foot (same bloom-before-leaf cycle, but much smaller)
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

Charcoal burner

Russula cyanoxantha
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Other russulas with acrid or peppery taste (not deadly but indigestible raw)
Low toxicity

Chicken of the woods

Laetiporus sulphureus
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Giant polypore (Meripilus giganteus)
Harmless

Cleavers

Galium aparine
🍽️💊🪢🌳🏔️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicity

Clover and Daisy

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

Coltsfoot

Tussilago farfara
💊☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Other early yellow flower heads (little risk of confusion given the leaf-free flowering)
Harmless

Common Aspen

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

Common Comfrey

Symphytum officinale
💊☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Foxglove (at the rosette stage, before flowering)
Harmless

Common Hawthorn

Crataegus monogyna
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicity

Common hogweed

Heracleum sphondylium
🍽️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Giant hogweed (severe photosensitizer, never touch)
Harmless

Common Houseleek

Sempervivum tectorum
💊🏔️
Low toxicity

Common Juniper

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

Common Vetch (Garden Vetch)

Vicia sativa
🍽️☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Meadow Vetchling or other Lathyrus species (risk of lathyrism with massive consumption)
Harmless

Cornelian cherry

Cornus mas
🍽️💊🌳🏔️45 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Common dogwood (inedible fruits)
Harmless

Cow parsley (wild chervil)

Anthriscus sylvestris
🍽️☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Hemlock (deadly)
Harmless

Cuckooflower (lady's smock)

Cardamine pratensis
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Watercress (aquatic, real risk of liver fluke)
Harmless

Dandelion

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

Deadly Nightshade

Atropa belladonna
☠️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Bilberry / Wild Blueberry
Harmless

Dog rose

Rosa canina
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️162 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Harmless

Edelweiss

Leontopodium alpinum
☠️🏔️
Deadly

English Yew

Taxus baccata
☠️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Silver Fir
Harmless

European Ash

Fraxinus excelsior
💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous look-alikes reported
Low toxicity

European Beech

Fagus sylvatica
🍽️🌳🏔️570 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Harmless

European Larch

Larix decidua
🍽️💊🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Harmless

Fairy ring mushroom

Marasmius oreades
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Deadly white Clitocybes (including the fool's funnel)
Harmless

Field mushroom

Agaricus campestris
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Destroying angel
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
Deadly

Foxglove

Digitalis purpurea
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Comfrey (first-year rosette)
Harmless

Garlic mustard

Alliaria petiolata
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Ground ivy (different smell) or sweet violet (at the rosette stage before flowering)
Low toxicity

Genepi (black wormwood / alpine wormwood)

Artemisia genipi / Artemisia umbellata
🍽️💊🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wormwood / Absinthe
Harmless

Giant puffball

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

Great Yellow Gentian

Gentiana lutea
🍽️💊🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: White Helleborine
Harmless

Greater Burdock

Arctium lappa
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🍁72 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Comfrey or Foxglove (at the rosette stage, before flowering)
Harmless

Ground elder (Goutweed)

Aegopodium podagraria
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Fool's parsley and other toxic Apiaceae (general vigilance required for any non-flowering Apiaceae)
Harmless

Ground ivy

Glechoma hederacea
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion reported
Harmless

Hazel

Corylus avellana
🍽️🌳🏔️628 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Harmless

Heather (ling)

Calluna vulgaris
💊🪢🌳🏔️🐚
⚠️ Confusion: Heaths of the Erica genus (bell heather, cross-leaved heath), same uses
Harmless

Horn of Plenty

Craterellus cornucopioides
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: No toxic or deadly species in Europe
Toxic

Laburnum (Golden Chain Tree)

Laburnum anagyroides
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Peas or green beans (seeds mistaken by a child)
Low toxicity

Lesser Celandine

Ranunculus ficaria
🍽️☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Meadow buttercup or other buttercups (toxic year-round)
Harmless

Linden (Lime tree)

Tilia cordata / Tilia platyphyllos
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous look-alikes reported
Harmless

Lingonberry (mountain cranberry)

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

Meadow buttercup

Ranunculus acris
☠️🌳🍁🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: No common edible confusion
Harmless

Meadow Salsify and Rampion Bellflower

Tragopogon pratensis / Campanula rapunculus
🍽️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion listed for these two species
Low toxicity

Meadow vetchling

Lathyrus pratensis
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Common vetch (edible in moderation)
Harmless

Meadowsweet

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

Monkshood

Aconitum napellus
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Horseradish
Low toxicity

Morel

Morchella esculenta
🍽️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: False Morel
Low toxicity

Mountain Arnica

Arnica montana
💊🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Leopard's bane
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

Parasol Mushroom

Macrolepiota procera
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Small brown lepiotas (deadly dapperling and related species)
Harmless

Plantain (ribwort and broadleaf)

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

Ponderosa pine

Pinus ponderosa
🍽️🪓💊🍁🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Jeffrey pine
Harmless

Porcini Mushroom

Boletus edulis
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Satan's Bolete
Low toxicity

Rowan

Sorbus aucuparia
🍽️🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Service tree
Harmless

Saffron milkcap

Lactarius deliciosus
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Woolly milkcap
Toxic

Scotch broom

Cytisus scoparius
☠️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Gorse (thorny, also toxic as a plant but flowers are edible)
Harmless

Scots pine

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

Sea buckthorn

Hippophae rhamnoides
🍽️💊🌳🐚🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Firethorn (pyracantha)
Harmless

Shaggy mane

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

Shepherd's purse

Capsella bursa-pastoris
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no notable dangerous confusion
Harmless

Silver Birch

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

Sorrel

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

Spear Thistle (Bull Thistle)

Cirsium vulgare
🍽️🌳🏔️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Toxic

Spurge-laurel / Mezereon

Daphne mezereum
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Currant or blackcurrant (berries)
Harmless

St. George's mushroom

Calocybe gambosa
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Livid pinkgill
Low toxicity

St. John's Wort

Hypericum perforatum
💊☠️🌳🫒🏔️
Low toxicity

Stinging Nettle

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

Sweet Chestnut

Castanea sativa
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️245 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Horse Chestnut
Harmless

Swiss pine (Arolla pine)

Pinus cembra
🍽️🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: European yew
Harmless

Sycamore maple

Acer pseudoplatanus
🍽️🪓🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Norway maple
Harmless

Valerian

Valeriana officinalis
💊🌳🏔️
Harmless

Water Mint

Mentha aquatica
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Gypsywort (edible, no minty smell)
Low toxicity

Watercress

Nasturtium officinale
🍽️💊☠️🌳🏔️11 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Fool's watercress (deadly), which grows in the same ditches
Harmless

Western Redcedar

Thuja plicata
🪓🪢🏕️🍁🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Eastern Arborvitae (Northern White-Cedar)
Harmless

White and Purple Dead-Nettle

Lamium album / Lamium purpureum
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Stinging Nettle (harmless visual confusion, just a false alarm)
Deadly

White veratrum

Veratrum album
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Yellow gentian (leaves before flowering)
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 Angelica (Woodland Angelica)

Angelica sylvestris
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Poison hemlock and water hemlock (deadly), giant hogweed (burns)
Harmless

Wild Carrot

Daucus carota
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Poison Hemlock (DEADLY)
Harmless

Wild garlic

Allium ursinum
🍽️💊🌳🏔️30 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Lily of the valley
Harmless

Wild Oregano (Wild Marjoram)

Origanum vulgare
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wild mint or calamint (similar scents, but aromatic and edible as well)
Harmless

Wild Raspberry

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

Wild strawberry

Fragaria vesca
🍽️💊🏔️32 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Mock strawberry
Harmless

Wild Thyme

Thymus serpyllum
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Common thyme
Harmless

Wood blewit

Lepista nuda
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Violet webcaps
Harmless

Wood Hedgehog

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

Wood mushroom

Agaricus silvicola
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Deadly white amanitas (especially white forms of the death cap)
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