Red Dead Redemption 2 has 43 different plants which you can collect. This guide shows all plant locations in RDR2. They can be divided into multiple categories: berries, flowers, herbs, mushrooms etc. You will need to find at least 20 different plants for 100% completion as well as gather some specific ones for the herbalist challenges. This guide will show you the locations of the plants in alphabetical order. Some plants are part of the Exotics Collectible Mission.
Plants List:
- Acuna’s Star Orchid
- Alaskan Ginseng
- American Ginseng
- Bay Bolete
- Blackberry
- Blackcurrant
- Burdock Root
- Chanterelles
- Cigar Orchid
- Clamshell Orchid
- Common Bulrush
- Creeping Thyme
- Desert Sage
- Dragon’s Mouth Orchid
- English Mace
- Evergreen Huckleberry
- Ghost Orchid
- Golden Currant
- Hummingbird Sage
- Indian Tobacco
- Lady of the Night Orchid
- Lady Slipper Orchid
- Milkweed
- Moccasin Flower Orchid
- Night Scented Orchid
- Oleander Sage
- Oregano
- Parasol Mushroom
- Prairie Poppy
- Queen’s Orchid
- Ram’s Head
- Rat Tail Orchid
- Red Raspberry
- Red Sage
- Sparrow’s Egg Orchid
- Spider Orchid
- Vanilla Flower
- Violet Snowdrops
- Wild Carrot
- Wild Feverfew
- Wild Mint
- Wintergreen Berry
- Yarrow
Acuna’s Star Orchids (*From Exotics Quest)
Alaskan Ginseng
American Ginseng
Bay Boylete
Blackberry
Blackcurrant
Burdock Root
Chanterelles
Cigar Orchids (*From Exotics Quest)
Clamshell Orchids (*From Exotics Quest)
Common Bullrush
Creeping Thyme
Desert Sage
Dragon’s Mouth Orchids (*From Exotics Quest)
English Mace
Evergreen Huckleberry
Ghost Orchid (*From Exotics Quest)
Golden Currant
Humminbird Sage
Indian Tobacco
Lady of the Night Orchid (*From Exotics Quest)
Lady Slipper Orchid (*From Exotics Quest)
Milkweed
Moccasin Flower Orchids (*From Exotics Quest)
Night Scented Orchids (*From Exotics Quest)
Oleander Sage
Oregano
Parasol Mushroom
Prairie Poppy
Queen’s Orchids (*From Exotics Quest)
Ram’s Head
Rat Tail Orchids (*From Exotics Quest)
Red Raspberry
Red Sage
Sparrow’s Egg Orchids (*From Exotics Quest)
Spider’s Orchids (*From Exotics Quest)
Vanilla Flower
Violet Snowdrops
Wild Carrot
Wild Feverfew
Wild Mint
Wintergreen Berry
Yarrow
That’s the complete list of plants.
*Special thanks to “Dirty Tyler” for some of the locations.
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I cant find a violet snowdrop to save my life!! I own the guide and it says to look north ambarino but still cant find it HELP!
i found it by killing and looting a couple of murfrees bros.
If you haven’t found it yet, I found a patch of them and a single Alaskan ginseng. Look at the dragons mouth map on this page. Find the two most easterly dots from the lake. Just south of the northern most dot you’ll find the snowdrops. (They’re little bluey/purple ground huggers)
Near the river on trees by lagras and blue water marsh
There’s some easy-to-find Violent Snowdrop up in the northeast. Go to your map, find Brandywine Drop, then go to the grassy area due east of the word “Brandywine”, exactly between the word itself and the road to its east. It’s In a grassy area with a large Boulder and a fallen tree trunk. You can’t miss it if you mark your map right. It’s literally smack dab in the middle of the grass, exactly between the word “Brandywine” and the road to its east.
Hope you’ve found it already, but if not, here’s the ticket.
I found one by Marks Dragic’s lab, maybe try there?
Look where you hunt the legendary bear. It can be found in the beginning of that gorge where the bear is.
Struggling hard to find Wintergreen Berry
There was one wintergreen berry behind Doverhill (west of the legendary Moose) and another sort of between the train track and Manito Glade (follow the track up from Annesburg.)
Go too Roanoke valley close too annesburg follow the stream too a water fall and too the left you should find it there
There’s also a few of them just slightly right of hilt shack up the little creek River. Just to the right of the hut that sits atop a ladder.
Look on youtube there is a video
Any idea where are the missing ones?
1 Alaskan Ginseng
5 Blackcurran
10 Desert Sage
11 English Mace
20 Prairie Poppy
25 Violet Snowdrops
27 Wild Feverfew
39 Ghost Orchid
Can’t do challenge herbalist #9 without them :/
We’re still adding them over the next days.
new austin is the only way todo herbilst 8 and 9
You don’t need New Austin for #8… Oleander in in swamp
The ginseng is directly right below the legendary Moose on the other side of the train tracks
Thanks for this guy’s, great help!
Prairie Poppy is outside of Blackwater, right under the “T”
Need help looking for Peppermint for Uncle request item
You can buy it from any stable.
Me too
Oh man I’m really struggling with Acuna star orchid, game says I’ve picked 2 but not when trying to do herb 9, do they appear when you the exotic quests are active, haven’t got that far yet.
You probably are already doing this but just in case, they all show up in the deadeye or focus thing by clicking r3 and L3. All of the orchids are yellow.
Yeah I am, they are just not at any of the dots or around the locations, every single other orchid around the area I have found but not acuna’s.
I’ve given up looking in chapter 3 will try again in chapter 4, can’t complete herb 9 till I can get into New Austin anyway just wanted to get them out the way!
i got the same issue my friend i am struggeling with the acuna starchild same here exotic quest is turned on maybe we have to complete the quest first lol idk but i checked all the spawn location twice and they wont spawn for me at all…
You have to go re-pick everything after you start that challenge, because once you start that challenge it acts like you’ve picked nothing so I had to discard a few things just so I could re-pick them up for it to count
I’m surprised Vanilla Flower is missing. They’re all over the bayou. You can’t look for orchids without finding them.
Where is English Mace??
I’m pretty sure I picked up some right under Plainview’s “IE” (SouthWest from Fort Mercer in New Austin)
I know where you can find the 5 Ghost orchid needed for exotic 3# if you guys intrested.
This herbalist challenge is the worse, you can complete every other challenge before you even unlock new Austin in the game, you get the legend of the east outfit for completing all challenges so it’d make sense for all challeneges to be completed at east of the map. (Everything east of original red dead map) After suffering through all the other ones (especially the gambler challenges) it sucks to be held up by one you where you pick plants, from what I hear new Austin isn’t available for a long time, was hoping to be done with challenges before I got that far into game.
So far, it’s looking nigh-impossible. The only opportunity I found with the programmed death sniper that appears when you arrive in New Austen while Blackwater is restricted, is that the shots happen at an interval, a shot hit a tree (instead of my face) when I was trying to pinpoint the direction of the shots, and I think my character reacted to a hit instead of immediately dying. The last implies that either the shot missed (unlikely), or the Potent Health Cure gave me the ability to take one shot (most beneficial).
Theoretically, you could time the shot, experiment to determine how the direction of the shot is programmed, and repeatedly fortify your health until you reach the herbs. However, if you run out of tonics that fortify your health, your horse dies, you fall, or any of the aforementioned details change as you move deeper into New Austen (early in the game), then it’s going to be that much harder to remain alive.
That’s assuming you can find the herb in the area detailed, and their spawn points are occasionally unreliable in other regions. More than likely, you’ll have to repeatedly load your game (to remove your bounty when you don’t obtain an herb), make it to the same region again, and hope you can grab the herb in the first place.
Obviously, you could do the story up to that point if you weren’t terribly invested in getting it done early. With the formula used to restrict the player, it’s extremely difficult to do it early.
There is a glitch that allows you into New Austin prior to end of game. As long as the law in towns don’t see you, you’re free to roam the state. I’ve been able to collect the needed plants, catch the legendary fish and harvest the legendary animals as Arthur, using this glitch.
Hi went to the oleander sage location, but its indian tobacco instead in my game, does it randomise what plant is there.
I dunno, but your comment just helped me with the herbalist 5 challenge so thanks
The spawn is varied slightly. Generally, I recommend checking the location given (as you did), then getting on your horse and looking for it in a expanding circle. It sucks, but that’s how I found the ones that didn’t appear in the exact location. Bear in mind that Oleander tends to appear next to water, so that should help too.
If you still haven’t found it, then I would check another guide for another region. Oleander pops up in a couple places near water.
haha so many typos xD
Alaskan ginseng found northeast of brandywine drop, almost due west of Willard’s Rest. Under the curve of the “W” in Willard
6 golden currant next to each other. Tip of A in Roanoke, go directly east to the rr tracks and the are out in the open and measy to see. More in the general area as well
Foound Wild Feverfew between the “S” of Chola springs and the “A” of Armadillo
I’ve tried using the same glitch method (gold bars) with herbs. It doesn’t work – unfortunately. -_- It’s such a grind finding 30 Currant, 30 Yarrow and 30 Burdock Root for Herbalist challenge 7.
you can find a ton of Burdock Roots along the Little Creek River just west of Wallace station.
still looking for the other two though
Pretty sure I remember a garden of Alaskan Ginseng at Ches Porter. Picked some after I killed everybody during a Home Robbery mission.
Does anyone know if herbs and plants regrow?
There’s also Hummingbird Sage right by the second camp. On the map where it says “Radleys Pasture” it’s right between the end of the loop the P and the vertical line of the P
I need these: 5, 10, 11, 20, 23, 27, are they all in the Blackwather and New Austin area?
Hey! I have complete this and made a video of all the locations. feel free to post it up here youtu.be/r_Cc-pCBPJs
Evergreen Huckleberry is also south of the S in “SCARLETT MEADOWS” of RHODES. If you zoom all the way out of the map and place the bottom of the red north crosshair to said “S”, the dead center of the crosshair is where the berries are.
I’m still in chapter 4 and I have Black Currant and Red Sage picked for Herbalist 9.
Are all plants obtainable by looting..? I think that’s how I acquired those 2 plants..
The map for the Parasol Mushroom is the Oregano map. Please update this soon 🙂
Hi, you’re right these got mixed up, sorry about that! The Parasol Mushroom is immediately next to the Oregano (that’s why we had the same screenshot for both). I updated the screenshot, it’s just a few meters closer to Flatneck station next to the train tracks. Thanks for your comment regarding this! 🙂
Thank you so much for the images and marked locations. I was going crazy looking for those Lady Slipper Orchids.
Go between the “H” and the “A” of New Hanover (west to east) east of the road perpendicular to it you will find mushrooms. Just north of a patch of Thyme bushes.
Directly south of Emerald Station side of road at the major intersection of trains and roads, there is a patch there too.
Is anyone having trouble you already gotten every single herb and it says 42 out of 43 I checked my satchel I have all the orchids and I also gotten the Herbs when I was Arthur and now jack as well idk what am I missing
i have the same problem my herbalist challenge says i have 36 of 43 but my compendium plants section says i have 38 of 43… this sucks. so many bugs, i also have too skinned legendary that are crossed out on the map, for over a week now, but the trapper shows them as not caught. i wish they would fix this stuff.
Can you only find the Moccasin Flower Orchids after a certain point? I’m in chapter 4. Cannot find these anywhere even using the guide. I swear I’ve been all over this area a half dozen times now.
Where is Thyme?
1/: I have 42 out of 43 on the Herbalist Challenge #9
2/: I have discovered 43 out of 43 in the Compendium
I’ve tried writing down a list of what’s in my satchel but the trouble is, all the currants go under ‘currants’, all the ginseng’s become ‘ginseng’… and so on…
How on earth do I find what is missing? *confused*
I’ve already spent 2 days solid going over and over this.. and getting seriously frustrated now. 🙁
Late reply but it’s well possible you discovered this plant before activating the challenge. That way it was already in the compendium and you need to pick it again.
Does it matter what sage to use when crafting the special horse stimulant
Hello
I have a big problem with finding Wintergreen Berry. I visited all the locations indicated on various websites, visited all the locations shown on youtube and did not find a single piece. I was looking for day and night. reloading the game also did not help. does it matter that I have gone through the game? please, any tips.
I collected all of them after the story, but it shouldn’t matter. For now just keep playing and see if it spawns later.
Before I started the list I wrote them all down and crossed them off as I picked them… but the red raspberry isn’t getting recognised and just says raspberry so a bit unsure why.. anyone else had this
I currently have all 43 items on that list but it’s still only saying that i have 41 out of 43. i don’t understand. i know that if you pick red sage and hummingbird sage it shows up in the satchel as just sage in general and the same with black currant and golden currant. i’ve picked all orchids on the list. does anyone have any suggestions? is it possibly just one of the many bugs in the game
Same! I have the list printed off and I have crossed them off as I have picked them.
But it says I have 40 out of 43.
I went through the list again and was missing the 3 In Austin: Blackcurrant, Desert Sage and Red Sage. I picked the blackcurrant and then checked the challenge in the game ‘progress’ and it did not recognise it, it still said 40 out of 43. I then got the desert and red sage. Checked the progress and still 40 out of 43!
I’ve written down all 43 herbs and marked them off twice and still showing only 42 herbs. I’m confused is there a difference between raspberry and red raspberry that’s the only thing I can think of because I’ve done the list twice and only shows 42
Any orchids you missed? Did you do the exotics side quest?
PSA!!!
If youre trying to do the herbalist 9 Challenge in chapter 2, don’t pick up any more than one orchid a piece until you have a chance to complete the challenge, if you collect three orchids before this challenge, They will stop spawning until the exotic side mission in chapter 4, the acuna star orchid Stops responding when you pick two up the rest of the orchids stop responding when you pick four up. So I advise you to only pick up one of each species of orchid until you unlock herbalist nine to complete it, well most of verbal as nine, I just figured I’d tell everyone because I ran into this issue And was wondering why the orchids just stop spawning out of nowhere
Problem!
Under Challenges – HERBALIST 9 … it states that I have 41 of 43 species picked …. HOWEVER
Under Compendium, PLANTS .. it states 43 of 43 discovered, picked, used in a recipe … 100%
What am I missing????
Three good places for Golden Current are near Fort Brennand, (which is the civil war fort near Van Horn.) Near the Eysian Pool just above the “E” from New Hanover there is a ancient homestead, often there is stuff hidden in the chimney as well. The last good location I found was up north of Manito Glade, North East Annesburg where you find the hermit who you get the Rare Shotgun from.