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...