Asteraceae
1318 edible species
Largest flowering plant family including sunflowers, lettuce, artichokes, and chrysanthemums.
Treasure flower
Edible: Flowers, Buds
Winged Geigeria
Edible: Leaves - flavouring, Caution
Edible: Nectar
Edible: Leaves
Old man's beard
Edible: Leaves
Chrysanthemum greens, Crown daisy
Edible: Leaves, Stems, Flowers, Seeds, Vegetable
Corn marigold, Corn chrysanthemum
Edible: Leaves
Patthar suva
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Carveseed
Edible: Leaves, Stems
Chinese cudweed, Cotton weed
Edible: Leaves, Flowers, Spice, Leaves - tea
Edible: Leaves
Many Stem Cudweed
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Jersey Cudweed
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Many-stemmed cudweed
Edible: Leaves, Flowers
Spoonleaf purple everlasting
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Madras carpet
Edible: Leaves
Rosin Weed, Narrowleaf gumweed, Texan gumweed
Great valley gumweed, Gum plant, Gumweed
Edible: Leaves, Leaves - tea
Resinweed, Gum plant
Edible: Leaves - tea, Flowers - gum
Niger Seed
Edible: Seeds, Leaves, Seed - Oil, Vegetable
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Vegetable, Spice
Tournefort's gundelia, Akkoub
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Flower - heads, Stems, Vegetable, Roots
Edible: Leaves, Stems, Root - gum
Edible: Leaves
Bitter leaf
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Edible: Seeds, Seeds - oil, Leaves
Star-flowered tree vernonia
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Edible: Leaves
Blue bitter-tea, Eared bitter-tea
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Edible: Leaves, Caution, Vegetable
Edible: Leaves - flavouring
Purple Passion Vine, Purple velvet plant, Royal velvet plant, Velvet plant
Edible: Leaves
Velvet plant, Gynura, Okinawan spinach, Red groundsel
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable, Roots, Leaves - tea
Hill gynura
Edible: Shoots, Leaves
Chinese groundsel
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves - tea
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Twigs, Flowers
White gynura
Edible: Shoots
Purple passion plant, Velvet plant
Edible: Leaves as condiment, Flavouring, Spice
Velvet plant, Chinese gynura
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Hedypnois, Cretan weed
Edible: Leaves, Shoots
Owls Claws, Orange Sneezeweed
Rosilla
Edible: Leaves
Sunflower
Edible: Seeds, Flowers, Spice, Oil, Root - tea
Wild sunflower, Showy sunflower
Edible: Seeds
Cusick's sunflower
Edible: Roots
Edible: Root, Tubers
Giant sunflower
Edible: Seeds, Roots
Paleleaf woodland sunflower
Edible: Root
Sunchoke
Edible: Seeds
Perennial Sunflower
Edible: Flowers, Oil, Seed, Stem
Showy Sunflower, Cheerful sunflower
Edible: Root
Wild Sunflower
Edible: Oil, Seed
Maximillian sunflower
Edible: Root, Seeds
Maximillian Sunflower, Maximillian Daisy
Edible: Root
Edible: Seeds
Stiff Sunflower, Prairie Sunflower
Edible: Oil, Seed
Prairie sunflower
Edible: Seeds
Paleleaf Woodland Sunflower
Edible: Root
Jerusalem artichoke
Edible: Rhizome, Tubers, Root, Vegetable, Flowers
Showy sunflower
Edible: Root, Tubers
Everlasting flower
Edible: Flowers - colour tea, Leaves - tea
Edible: Leaves, Stems
Edible: Leaves - tea
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Curry plant
Edible: Leaves for flavouring, Flower heads - tea, Herb
Jersey Cudweed
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Hottentot's tea
Edible: Leaves - tea, Leaves
Edible: Leaves - drink
Edible: Flowers - tea
Everlasting
Edible: Leaves - tea
Edible: Leaves - tea
Licorice plant, Silver licorice
Edible: Root - flavouring
Edible: Stem, Leaves - tea
Edible: Root
Edible: Flower - tea
Edible: Flowers - tea
Edible: Leaves - tea
Edible: Flowers - tea
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves, Leaves - flavouring
Golden root, Aztec root
Bristly Ox-Tongue
Edible: Leaves, Root, Flowers
Fox thistle
Edible: Leaves
Early tartary potherb
Edible: Leaves
Hayfield tarweed
Edible: Seeds
Coastal tarweed
Edible: Seeds
Clustered tarweed
Edible: Leaves
Fitch's tarweed
Edible: Seeds