The plants of Mountains
Alpes, Pyrénées, Massif central, Jura : étages subalpin et alpin, la confusion gentiane-vératre en tête.
104 entries
ToxicAlpenrose
Rhododendron ferrugineum
☠️🏔️
Low toxicityAlpine Sorrel
Rumex alpinus
🍽️🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: White False Hellebore
DeadlyAutumn crocus
Colchicum autumnale
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wild garlic (young spring leaves)
HarmlessBay bolete
Imleria badia
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Satan's bolete
HarmlessBilberry
Vaccinium myrtillus
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲57 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded for the fruit
Low toxicityBlackthorn (sloe)
Prunus spinosa
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wild cherry or escaped cultivated plum
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
Low toxicityButterbur (pestilence wort)
Petasites hybridus
💊☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Colt's foot (same bloom-before-leaf cycle, but much smaller)
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
HarmlessCharcoal burner
Russula cyanoxantha
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Other russulas with acrid or peppery taste (not deadly but indigestible raw)
Low toxicityChicken of the woods
Laetiporus sulphureus
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Giant polypore (Meripilus giganteus)
HarmlessCleavers
Galium aparine
🍽️💊🪢🌳🏔️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicityClover and Daisy
Trifolium repens / pratense — Bellis perennis
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wood sorrel (false clover)
Low toxicityColtsfoot
Tussilago farfara
💊☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Other early yellow flower heads (little risk of confusion given the leaf-free flowering)
HarmlessCommon Aspen
Populus tremula
🍽️💊🪓🌳🌲🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Black Poplar
Low toxicityCommon Comfrey
Symphytum officinale
💊☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Foxglove (at the rosette stage, before flowering)
HarmlessCommon Hawthorn
Crataegus monogyna
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicityCommon hogweed
Heracleum sphondylium
🍽️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Giant hogweed (severe photosensitizer, never touch)
HarmlessCommon Houseleek
Sempervivum tectorum
💊🏔️
Low toxicityCommon Juniper
Juniperus communis
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲90 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: English Yew (DEADLY, red berries and not blue-black)
Low toxicityCommon Vetch (Garden Vetch)
Vicia sativa
🍽️☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Meadow Vetchling or other Lathyrus species (risk of lathyrism with massive consumption)
HarmlessCornelian cherry
Cornus mas
🍽️💊🌳🏔️45 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Common dogwood (inedible fruits)
HarmlessCow parsley (wild chervil)
Anthriscus sylvestris
🍽️☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Hemlock (deadly)
HarmlessCuckooflower (lady's smock)
Cardamine pratensis
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Watercress (aquatic, real risk of liver fluke)
HarmlessDandelion
Taraxacum officinale
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️45 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Hawkweeds and sowthistles
DeadlyDeadly Nightshade
Atropa belladonna
☠️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Bilberry / Wild Blueberry
HarmlessDog rose
Rosa canina
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️162 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
HarmlessEdelweiss
Leontopodium alpinum
☠️🏔️
DeadlyEnglish Yew
Taxus baccata
☠️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Silver Fir
HarmlessEuropean Ash
Fraxinus excelsior
💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous look-alikes reported
Low toxicityEuropean Beech
Fagus sylvatica
🍽️🌳🏔️570 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
HarmlessEuropean Larch
Larix decidua
🍽️💊🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
HarmlessFairy ring mushroom
Marasmius oreades
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Deadly white Clitocybes (including the fool's funnel)
HarmlessField mushroom
Agaricus campestris
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Destroying angel
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
DeadlyFoxglove
Digitalis purpurea
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Comfrey (first-year rosette)
HarmlessGarlic mustard
Alliaria petiolata
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Ground ivy (different smell) or sweet violet (at the rosette stage before flowering)
Low toxicityGenepi (black wormwood / alpine wormwood)
Artemisia genipi / Artemisia umbellata
🍽️💊🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wormwood / Absinthe
HarmlessGiant puffball
Calvatia gigantea
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Deadly young amanitas in the "egg" stage (notably death cap)
HarmlessGreat Yellow Gentian
Gentiana lutea
🍽️💊🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: White Helleborine
HarmlessGreater Burdock
Arctium lappa
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🍁72 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Comfrey or Foxglove (at the rosette stage, before flowering)
HarmlessGround elder (Goutweed)
Aegopodium podagraria
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Fool's parsley and other toxic Apiaceae (general vigilance required for any non-flowering Apiaceae)
HarmlessGround ivy
Glechoma hederacea
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion reported
HarmlessHazel
Corylus avellana
🍽️🌳🏔️628 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
HarmlessHeather (ling)
Calluna vulgaris
💊🪢🌳🏔️🐚
⚠️ Confusion: Heaths of the Erica genus (bell heather, cross-leaved heath), same uses
HarmlessHorn of Plenty
Craterellus cornucopioides
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: No toxic or deadly species in Europe
ToxicLaburnum (Golden Chain Tree)
Laburnum anagyroides
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Peas or green beans (seeds mistaken by a child)
Low toxicityLesser Celandine
Ranunculus ficaria
🍽️☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Meadow buttercup or other buttercups (toxic year-round)
HarmlessLinden (Lime tree)
Tilia cordata / Tilia platyphyllos
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous look-alikes reported
HarmlessLingonberry (mountain cranberry)
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
🍽️💊🏔️🌲51 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
ToxicMeadow buttercup
Ranunculus acris
☠️🌳🍁🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: No common edible confusion
HarmlessMeadow Salsify and Rampion Bellflower
Tragopogon pratensis / Campanula rapunculus
🍽️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion listed for these two species
Low toxicityMeadow vetchling
Lathyrus pratensis
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Common vetch (edible in moderation)
HarmlessMeadowsweet
Filipendula ulmaria
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
DeadlyMonkshood
Aconitum napellus
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Horseradish
Low toxicityMorel
Morchella esculenta
🍽️🌳🌲🍁
⚠️ Confusion: False Morel
Low toxicityMountain Arnica
Arnica montana
💊🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Leopard's bane
Low toxicityOrange birch bolete
Leccinum aurantiacum
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Oak orange bolete / poplar orange bolete
HarmlessOyster Mushroom
Pleurotus ostreatus
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲33 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Jack-o'-lantern mushroom
HarmlessParasol Mushroom
Macrolepiota procera
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Small brown lepiotas (deadly dapperling and related species)
HarmlessPlantain (ribwort and broadleaf)
Plantago lanceolata / Plantago major
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️32 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
HarmlessPonderosa pine
Pinus ponderosa
🍽️🪓💊🍁🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Jeffrey pine
HarmlessPorcini Mushroom
Boletus edulis
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Satan's Bolete
Low toxicityRowan
Sorbus aucuparia
🍽️🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: Service tree
HarmlessSaffron milkcap
Lactarius deliciosus
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Woolly milkcap
ToxicScotch broom
Cytisus scoparius
☠️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Gorse (thorny, also toxic as a plant but flowers are edible)
HarmlessScots pine
Pinus sylvestris
🍽️💊🌳🌲🏔️0 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: English Yew (never confuse with needle arrangement)
HarmlessSea buckthorn
Hippophae rhamnoides
🍽️💊🌳🐚🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Firethorn (pyracantha)
HarmlessShaggy mane
Coprinus comatus
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Common ink cap
HarmlessShepherd's purse
Capsella bursa-pastoris
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: no notable dangerous confusion
HarmlessSilver Birch
Betula pendula
🍽️💊🪢🌳🌲🏔️24 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: no dangerous confusion recorded
Low toxicitySorrel
Rumex acetosa
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲22 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Sheep's sorrel
HarmlessSpear Thistle (Bull Thistle)
Cirsium vulgare
🍽️🌳🏔️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
ToxicSpurge-laurel / Mezereon
Daphne mezereum
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Currant or blackcurrant (berries)
HarmlessSt. George's mushroom
Calocybe gambosa
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Livid pinkgill
Low toxicitySt. John's Wort
Hypericum perforatum
💊☠️🌳🫒🏔️
Low toxicityStinging Nettle
Urtica dioica
🍽️💊🪢🌳🫒🏔️42 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: White dead-nettle (non-stinging)
HarmlessSweet Chestnut
Castanea sativa
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️245 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Horse Chestnut
HarmlessSwiss pine (Arolla pine)
Pinus cembra
🍽️🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: European yew
HarmlessSycamore maple
Acer pseudoplatanus
🍽️🪓🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Norway maple
HarmlessValerian
Valeriana officinalis
💊🌳🏔️
HarmlessWater Mint
Mentha aquatica
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Gypsywort (edible, no minty smell)
Low toxicityWatercress
Nasturtium officinale
🍽️💊☠️🌳🏔️11 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Fool's watercress (deadly), which grows in the same ditches
HarmlessWestern Redcedar
Thuja plicata
🪓🪢🏕️🍁🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Eastern Arborvitae (Northern White-Cedar)
HarmlessWhite and Purple Dead-Nettle
Lamium album / Lamium purpureum
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Stinging Nettle (harmless visual confusion, just a false alarm)
DeadlyWhite veratrum
Veratrum album
☠️🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Yellow gentian (leaves before flowering)
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 Angelica (Woodland Angelica)
Angelica sylvestris
🍽️💊🌳🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Poison hemlock and water hemlock (deadly), giant hogweed (burns)
HarmlessWild Carrot
Daucus carota
🍽️🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Poison Hemlock (DEADLY)
HarmlessWild garlic
Allium ursinum
🍽️💊🌳🏔️30 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Lily of the valley
HarmlessWild Oregano (Wild Marjoram)
Origanum vulgare
🍽️💊🌳🫒🏔️
⚠️ Confusion: Wild mint or calamint (similar scents, but aromatic and edible as well)
HarmlessWild Raspberry
Rubus idaeus
🍽️💊🏔️🌲52 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Bramble / Common Blackberry
HarmlessWild strawberry
Fragaria vesca
🍽️💊🏔️32 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Mock strawberry
HarmlessWild Thyme
Thymus serpyllum
🍽️💊🌳🏔️🫒
⚠️ Confusion: Common thyme
HarmlessWood blewit
Lepista nuda
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Violet webcaps
HarmlessWood Hedgehog
Hydnum repandum
🍽️🌳🏔️🌲
⚠️ Confusion: No known toxic species
HarmlessWood mushroom
Agaricus silvicola
🍽️🌳🏔️🍁
⚠️ Confusion: Deadly white amanitas (especially white forms of the death cap)
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