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A map of where edible plants have been seen, built from public biodiversity records. It shows you where to look. It does not tell you what is safe to eat, or where you are allowed to pick. The descriptions summarize published sources; nothing here has been checked for you, and sources can be wrong.
Food only: medicinal uses are deliberately left out, because dosage and individual context can't be responsibly conveyed here. The Verify links on each entry lead to fuller sources.
Someone recorded that species at that spot, and a second person confirmed the identification on iNaturalist, or it came from a museum specimen via GBIF.
Either nobody has recorded it within your search radius, the record is not licensed for reuse, or Kew lists no food use for it. Turn on "Include unverified sightings" in Settings to see records still awaiting confirmation, or add your own to iNaturalist.
Descriptions are written per species from cited sources and reviewed before they ship. Until a plant has been through that, its entry shows one line saying only what Kew records. They are filled in region by region.
A species shows as edible only if Kew's World Checklist of Useful Plants records a human food use for it, or a person has vouched for it in the regional pack. No model decides edibility, and none writes the warning boxes.
From what the cited sources record, not from anyone's opinion. A plant that makes a real meal starts high; a seasoning, a trail nibble, or a famine food starts low, and a good taste lifts it a step. Heavy preparation, a limit on how much you can eat, needing tools, or cooked-only each cap the score, and the lowest cap wins. The phrase after the dots names what held it down. The "Worth it" filter shows only fours and fives.
Forage Anywhere is built one ecoregion at a time. Each region gets a pack: every species recorded there that Kew lists as food, marked native or introduced, invasive or protected, with seasons and descriptions written from cited sources and reviewed before they ship. Packs are built from GBIF and iNaturalist exports and refreshed monthly, so what you see is as recent as the last build.
Outside a covered region the app still searches iNaturalist and GBIF directly, so you can see what has been recorded near you, but without the descriptions, seasons and trails a pack carries. Want your area covered? Request my region opens a mail to hello@forageanywhere.com. Say where, and what grows there.
Wrong plant, broken link, a rule that changed? Send feedback or email hello@forageanywhere.com. Nothing you send is stored in the app.
The groups below look after the land that this map sends you out onto. They could use the help.
Every region here also runs on two commons, iNaturalist and OpenStreetMap. Both take donations.
Forage Anywhere is free, has no ads, and takes no cut from anything linked here. Not affiliated with GBIF, iNaturalist, Kew, or any organization above. Data is used under CC BY-NC and attributed per source. Code is MIT; written content and region packs are CC BY-NC-SA; commercial use needs permission, email hello@forageanywhere.com. Edibility and native-range data derive from RBG Kew datasets; Kew cannot warrant the quality or accuracy of this data, and Forage Anywhere is not affiliated with or endorsed by RBG Kew. You are responsible for what you pick and what you eat. App v8