What herbs and plants can you forage in January 2026

 Discover twenty five wild food plants you can forage and harvest in January.



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


Birch – Betula pendula

Twigs: Tea.


Bittercress – Cardamine spp.

Leaf: Raw, cooked.


Burdock – Arctium spp.

Root: Raw, cooked.


Cleavers – Galium aparine

Shoots: Raw, cooked.


Creeping thistle – Cirsium arvense

Root: Cooked.


Daisy – Bellis perennis

Rosette: Cooked.


Dandelion – Taraxacum officinale agg.

Leaf: Raw, cooked.


Fennel – Foeniculum vulgare

Root: Raw, cooked.


Ground elder – Aegopodium podagraria

Leaf: Raw, cooked.


Hogweed – Heracleum sphondylium

Root: Cooked.


Horseradish – Armoracia rusticana

Root: Raw, cooked.


Lesser celandine – Ficaria verna

Leaf: Cooked.


Mahonia – Mahonia aquifolium

Flowers: Raw.


Meadowsweet – Filipendula ulmaria

Root: Cooked.


Navelwort – Umbilicus rupestris

Leaf: Raw, cooked.


Nipplewort – Lapsana communis

Leaf: Raw, cooked.


Orpine – Sedum telephium

Root: Cooked.


Pink purslane – Claytonia sibirica

Leaf: Raw, cooked.


Red valerian – Centranthus ruber

Leaf: Raw, cooked.

Root: Cooked.


Rough hawkbit – Leontodon hispidus

Root: Coffee substitute.


Saxifrage – Chrysosplenium spp.

Leaves: Cooked.


Sea buckthorn – Hippophae rhamnoides

Fruit: Raw, cooked.


Smooth sowthistle – Sonchus oleraceus

Leaf: Raw, cooked.


Three-cornered leek – Allium triquetrum

Leaf: Raw, cooked.


Violet – Viola spp.

Leaf: Raw, cooked.


White dead nettle – Lamium album

Leaf and shoots: Raw, cooked.


White stonecrop – Sedum album

Leaf: Raw.


Wood avens – Geum urbanum

Root: Raw, cooked.

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