Guide to wild foods and useful plants / Christopher Nyerges ; foreword by Ed Begley, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nyerges, Christopher.

Contributor:

Begley, Ed, Jr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wild plants, Edible.

Plants, Useful.

Medicinal plants.

Wild foods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, foragers, or anyone interested in living closer to the earth. Written by a leading expert on wild foods and a well-known teacher of survival skills, Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants is more than a listing of plant types-it teaches how to recognize edible plants and where to find them, their medicinal and nutritional properties, and their growing cycles. This new edition features more than 70 plants found all around the United States along with more than 100 full-co

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Ed Begley Jr; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Pictorial Key to Leaf Shapes; Pictorial Key to Fruits and Seeds; Agave; Alyssum; Amaranth; Black Sage; Brodiaea; Burdock; California Bay; California Coffee Berry and Cascara Sagrada; Camphor Tree; Carob; Castor Bean; Cattail; Chia; Chickweed; Chicory; Cleavers; Currants and Gooseberries; Dandelion; Dock; Elder; Epazote; Eucalyptus; Fennel; Filaree; Glasswort; Grass; Horehound; Horsetail; Jimsonweed; Lamb's Quarter; Mallow; Manzanita; Milkweed; Miner's Lettuce; Mugwort; Mustard; Nasturtium

NettleOak Tree; Passionflower; Piñon Pine; Plantain; Poison Hemlock; Poison oak; Prickly Lettuce; Prickly Pear; Purslane; Rose; Rosemary; Russian thistle; Sea Rocket; Seaweeds; Shepherd's Purse; Sow thistle; Thistle; Toothwort; Toyon; Tree Tobacco; Watercress; Water Hyacinth; Western Black nightshade; White Sage; Wild Asparagus; Wild Buckwheat; Wild cucumber; Wild onions; Willow; Wood Sorrel; Yarrow; Yerba Santa; Yucca; Appendix 1: Safe Families: A Guide to the (Relatively) Easily Recognized Plant Families That are Nontoxic and Primarily Edible; Appendix 2: Why Eat Wild Foods?; Glossary

BibliographyIndex; About the Author; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 13, 2014).

ISBN:

1-61374-699-7

1-61374-701-2

OCLC:

871777666