What to forage in June

Discover over fifty wild food plants you can forage and harvest in June.

Availability should only be seen as a rough guide. Variations in climate and location will make a difference to what’s available.


Alexanders – Smyrnium olusatrum
Flower: Raw

Ash – Fraxinus excelsior
Leaf: Tea

Black mustard – Brassica nigra
Flower: Raw, cooked

Burdock – Arctium spp.
Stem: Raw, cooked

Bush vetch – Vicia sepium
Flower: Raw
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Chicory – Cichorium intybus
Flower: Raw

Columbine – Aquilegia vulgaris
Flower: Raw
All other parts of this plant are considered poisonous.

Cow parsley – Anthriscus sylvestris
Flower: Raw

Creeping thistle – Cirsium arvense
Leaf stalk: Raw, cooked

Crow garlic – Allium vineale
Flower: Raw, cooked

Cuckooflower/Lady’s-smock – Cardamine pratensis
Flower: Raw

Daisy – Bellis perennis
Flower: Raw, cooked

Danish scurvygrass – Cochlearia danica
Flower: Raw

English scurvygrass – Cochlearia anglica
Flower: Raw

Garlic mustard – Alliaria petiolata
Flower: Raw

Good king Henry – Chenopodium bonus-henricus
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Hairy bittercress – Cardamine hirsuta
Flower: Raw, cooked

Hawthorn – Crataegus monogyna
Flower: Raw, cooked

Honesty – Lunaria annua
Seed: Raw, cooked

Hop – Humulus lupulus
Shoot: Cooked

Hottentot fig – Carpobrotus edulis
Flower: Raw, cooked

Lime (linden) –Tilia spp.
Flowers: Raw, dried. Tea.

Mallow – Malva spp.
Flower: Raw
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Meadowsweet – Filipendula ulmaria
Flower: Raw, cooked

Mugwort – Artemisia vulgaris
Buds: Raw, cooked

Orache – Atriplex spp.
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Mahonia (Oregon grape) – Mahonia spp.
Fruit: Raw, cooked

Oxeye daisy – Leucanthemum vulgare
Flower: Raw, cooked

Pineappleweed – Matricaria discoidea
Flower: Raw, cooked

Red clover – Trifolium pratense
Flower: Raw, cooked

Pink purslane – Claytonia sibirica
Flower: Raw

Red dead nettle – Lamium purpureum
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Rock samphire – Crithmum maritimum
Buds: Raw, cooked
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Rosebay willowherb – Chamerion angustifolium
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Scurvygrass – Cochlearia spp.
Flower: Raw

Sea aster – Aster tripolium
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Sea beet – Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Sea purslane – Atriplex portulacoides
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Shepherd’s purse – Capsella bursa-pastoris
Flower: Raw, cooked

Sneezewort – Achillea ptarmica
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Spear leaved orache – Atriplex prostrata
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Spear thistle – Cirsium vulgare
Leaf stalk: Raw, cooked

Spring beauty – Claytonia perfoliata
Flower: Raw, cooked

Three cornered leek – Allium triquetrum
Flower: Raw

Tufted vetch – Vicia cracca
Flower: Raw, cooked

Water mint – Mentha aquatica
Leaf: Raw, cooked

White clover – Trifolium repens
Flower: Raw, cooked

White dead nettle – Lamium album
Flower: Raw
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Wild angelica – Angelica sylvestris
Flower: Raw, cooked

Wild carrot – Daucus carota
Flower: Raw, cooked

Wild fennel – Foeniculum vulgare
Leaf: Raw, cooked

Wild garlic – Allium ursinum
Seed: Raw, cooked

Wintercress – Barbarea vulgaris
Flower: Raw, cooked

Woodruff – Galium odoratum
Flower: Raw, cooked

Yarrow – Achillea millefolium
Flower: Raw, cooked