If you have a Facebook profile you can join our local foraging group, Foraging the Clearwater! where we share photos in information about our recent finds.
Follow Nez Perce Tribe on Facebook to find out about foraging and wild edibles conferences!
Websites with illustrated descriptions of wild edibles:
Idaho Mountain Wildflowers (This website is not about edibles specifically, but contains great pictures and descriptions of hundreds of native wildflowers, some of which are edible and/or medicinal.)
Books with illustrated descriptions of wild edibles:
Foraging Idaho This book covers edible plant foods found growing wild in Idaho, both natives in introduced species. It does not cover mushrooms. It’s 289 pages with full color photos.
Montana Native Plants & Early Peoples This book covers 60 native plants that were important to the Native Peoples as food or medicine. Black and white drawings.
All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms Two hundred edible and non-edible mushrooms explained and identified with color photos.
Mushrooms of the Northwest Four hundred edible and non-edible mushrooms explained with color photos.
Other Idaho foraging books for sale on Ebay with photographs.
Foraging medicinal herbs:
Manatak American Indian Council, Herbal Medicines
General Books About Foraging:
Braiding Sweetgrass By Robin Wall Kimmerer a beautiful book of indigenous wisdom and knowledge about the reciprocal relationship between people and the land.
If you have other favorite resources for wild edibles that grow in Idaho, let us know, via our contact page!
We strongly recommend foraging with someone experienced, or looking at pictures and descriptions from several online or printed resources to be sure of identification before harvesting and eating. Bluebird Forest Garden and the author of this content assume no liability for improper identification of wild foods.