What to forage in November

Discover over forty wild food plants you can forage and harvest in November.

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
Leaf stalk: Raw, cooked.
Root: Cooked.

Blackthorn sloe – Prunus spinosa
Fruit: Raw, cooked.

Beech – Fagus sylvatica
Leaf: Tea.

Burdock – Arctium spp.
Root: Raw, cooked.

Chickweed – Stellaria media
Leaf: Raw, cooked.

Chicory – Cichorium intybus
Root: Cooked

Cleavers – Galium aparine
Tips: Raw, cooked.

Creeping thistle – Cirsium arvense
Root: Raw, cooked.

Daisy – Bellis perennis
Leaf: Cooked

Dittander – Lepidium latifolium
Root: Cooked

Fennel – Foeniculum vulgare
Seed: Raw, cooked.

Garlic mustard – Alliaria petiolata
Root: Raw, cooked.

Ground ivy – Glechoma hederacea
Leaf: Raw, cooked.

Guelder rose – Viburnum opulus
Fruit: Cooked.

Hairy bittercress – Cardamine hirsuta
Leaf: Raw, cooked.

Hawthorn – Crataegus monogyna
Fruit: Raw, cooked.

Hedge bedstraw – Galium mollugo
Tips/Shoots: Raw, cooked.

Hogweed – Heracleum sphondylium
Seed: Raw, cooked.

Horseradish – Armoracia rusticana
Root: Raw, cooked.

Juniper – Juniperus communis
Fruit: Cooked.

Meadowsweet – Filipendula ulmaria
Root: Cooked.

Navelwort – Umbilicus rupestris
Leaf: Raw, cooked.

Nipplewort – Lapsana communis
Leaf: Raw, cooked.

Oak – Quercus spp.
Seed: Cooked

Orache – Atriplex spp.
Seed: Raw, cooked.

Orpine – Sedum telephium
Leaf: Raw, cooked.

Red valerian – Centranthus ruber
Root: Cooked.

Red dead nettle – Lamium purpureum
Leaf: Raw, cooked.

Rosehip – Rosa canina
Fruit: Raw, cooked.

Rough hawkbit – Leontodon hispidus
Root: Cooked.

Rowan – Sorbus aucuparia
Fruit: Cooked.

Saxifrage – Chrysosplenium alternifolium
Leaf: Raw, cooked.

Sea buckthorn – Hippophae rhamnoides
Fruit: Raw, cooked.

Sea kale – Crambe maritima
Root: Raw, cooked.

Sea purslane – Atriplex portulacoides
Seed: Raw, cooked.

Silver birch – Betula pendula
Twigs: Cooked.

Sorrel – Rumex acetosa
Leaf: Raw, cooked.

Spear thistle – Cirsium vulgare
Seed: Raw, cooked.

Stinging nettle – Urtica dioica
Leaf and tips: Cooked.

Sweet chestnut – Castanea sativa
Seed: Raw, cooked.

White stonecrop – Sedum album
Leaf: Raw, cooked.

Wild angelica – Angelica sylvestris
Root: Raw, cooked.
Seed: Raw, cooked.

Wild carrot – Daucus carota
Root: Raw, cooked.

Wild celery – Apium graveolens
Root: Cooked.