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The Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Pacific Northwest

A guide to identifying the wild edible plants and medicinal plant medicines found in the Pacific Northwest region of North America: British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California.

These plants are mainly founded in the coastal rainforests along the west coast in the ...more ↓

Pacific Crab Apple 1
Malus fusca
Pacific Glasswort 2
Salicornia pacifica
stinging nettle 3
Urtica dioica
trailing blackberry 4
Rubus ursinus
Common Snowberry 5
Symphoricarpos albus
common cowparsnip 6
Heracleum maximum
Stink Currant 7
Ribes bracteosum
Devil's Club 8
Oplopanax horridus
beach strawberry 9
Fragaria chiloensis
thimbleberry 10
Rubus parviflorus
Canadian buffalo-berry 11
Shepherdia canadensis
Ocean spray 12
Holodiscus discolor
Labrador tea 13
Rhododendron groenlandicum
miner's lettuce 14
Claytonia perfoliata
bearberry 15
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Indian Plum 16
Ziziphus zizyphus
salal 17
Gaultheria shallon
Red Huckleberry 18
Vaccinium parvifolium
rose spiraea 19
Spiraea douglasii
fireweed 20
Chamaenerion angustifolium
Red-flowering Currant 21
Ribes sanguineum
Indian pipe 22
Monotropa uniflora
blue elder 23
Sambucus cerulea
whitebark raspberry 24
Rubus leucodermis
swamp currant 4
Ribes lacustre
Oregon grape
Berberis aquifolium
Saskatoon 25
Amelanchier alnifolia
pearly everlasting 26
Anaphalis margaritacea
springbank clover 27
Trifolium wormskioldii
salmonberry 28
Rubus spectabilis
yerba buena 29
Clinopodium douglasii
Trailing Blackcurrant 30
Ribes laxiflorum
common yarrow 31
Achillea millefolium
greater plantain 32
Plantago major

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