On the Web
There are many sites with information on edible plants, try a google search on “wild edible plants”. Here are a few.
- botanical.com – “A Modern Herbal” by Maud Grieve.
- Canadian Biodiversity Species Plants
- Dining on the Wilds – Learning Nature through Wild Edible Plants and Ethnobotany
- Foraging and Ethnobotany Links Page
- LearningHerbs.com – Free Home Remedies and Simple Herbal Medicine Making
- Nature’s Herbal
- Plants For A Future – 7000 useful plants
- Russ Cohen
- Sam Thayer’s Wild Food Website
- Susun Weed – Herbal Medicine and Spirit Healing the Wise Woman Way
- Tree Finder
- What Tree Is It?
- “Wildman” Steve Brill
- Wildwood Survival – Edible Wild Plants
Books
Botany in a Day
by Thomas J. Elpel. HOPS Press, LLC., 2000
The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America
by Francois Couplan, Ph.D.. Keats Publishing, Inc., 1998
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Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places
by ‘Wildman Steve Brill with Evelyn Dean’. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1994
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My Weeds: A Gardener’s Botany
by Sara Stein. University Press of Florida, 1988
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Wildflowers, Eastern Region
by William A. Niering, Nancy C. Olmstead, Susan Rayfield, Carol Nehring. Alfred A. Knopf (June 12, 1979)
Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide
by Lawrence Newcomb. Little, Brown & Company (Canada) Limited, 1977
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Perennial Vegetables
by Eric Toensmeier. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007
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Peterson Field Guide: Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America
by Lee Peterson. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977
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Peterson Field Guide: Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America
by Steven Foster and James A. Duke. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000
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Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants
by Tom Brown, Jr.. Berkley Books, New York, 1985
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The Wild Food Trail Guide
by Alan Hall. Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1973
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