Foraging guides and recipes

This edible plant is considered a gourmet salad leaf

A plant with a sharp, acidic taste that can liven up a salad

This stinging plant is highly nutritious and abundant

A pleasantly scented and common edible tree

A tasty wild green that should be treated with caution

A tree with edible parts and important to many fungi

A very common plant excellent in salads

A strong smelling herb that is often cultivated

A common and easy to identify relative of cultivated strawberries

A plant that is deadly poisonous, even through touch

A naturalised tree with sweet, edible berries

An invasive member of the onion family

The wild progenitor of cultivated variants

An attractive member of the mustard family

Found in hedgerows and also known as wild green gage

A pretty and tasty invasive plant

A hedgerow tree whose fruits are used to make a gin liqueur

The wild relative of the cultivated blueberry

Britain's most commonly foraged fruit plant

An aromatic plant introduced by the Romans

The salt tolerant ancestor of modern beetroots and chards

A salt loving member of the daisy family

A coastal plant found in estuaries and along mud flats

One of the first plants to appear on the site of a fire