Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants

There is ample information about well over 100 plants. There are two drawbacks though. The pictures in the book are all drawn and colored. This gives a decent depiction of each plant, but there is no way I would trust identifying berries or mushrooms based on illustrations! The plants are all thrown in Willy-nilly. There is no table of contents to identify chapters, such as Berries, Nuts, Seeds, Herbs, etc. Rather, the index... Read Full Review

I owned this before and I remember it seeming more durable but it is well written.

This book first caught my attention in the 70s but over the years I had lost my original copy so I repurchased one. It is still a good book even though the pictures are all rendered as art, which makes me a little nervous on critical IDs. I enjoy the details on preparing the plants, some of which were apparently as the native Americans had done. It is a very good companion book to some of the more recent works out there such... Read Full Review

I find this one useful. Drawings are not "natural" but compensate by revealing all major parts clearly: root, leaf, flower, stems. Anyway, I find one needs at least two books for reliable identity and often for any ID at all. Variations among species make identity of individual plants a lot harder than it might seem, excepting for a few easy plants like cat tails, purslane, etc. I agree with a prior reviewer that absence... Read Full Review

When I was stranded with my dog in the Alaska Wilderness for a week and a half, this book saved my life. Without it, how could I have eaten well until the aircraft came - yes, you heard - eaten well! I thank Bradford Angier greatly for this wonderful text!