Canadian Wood Nettle (Laportea canadensis)

Family: Urticaceae | Edibility: Edible (3/5)

Sometimes misspelt as Laportaea canadensis.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Leaves

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Fall, Late Summer, Spring

Flavor & Culinary Uses

delicious flavour, they are used like spinach. — Young leaves - cooked.; Very nutritious and with a delicious flavour, they are used like spinach.; Some caution should be observed when harvesting this plant since the raw leaves have stinging hairs.; It is perfectly safe to eat the leaves when they are cooked, however, since heat completely destroys the sting.

Habitat & North American Range

Rich, moist, deciduous forests, often along seepages and streams from sea level to 2000 metres. (Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8)