Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants
Bradford Angier
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 0811734471
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This illustrated guide to North American wild edibles has been a nature classic for over thirty years. In this new edition, David K. Foster revises Bradford Angier's invaluable foraging handbook, updating the taxonomy and adding more than a dozen species. Scientific information for a general audience and full-color illustrations combine with intriguing accounts of the plants' uses, making this a practical guide for modern-day foragers.
continent, burdock is perhaps the most versatile and delicious, all this in addition to being familiar and not easily mistaken. The adhesiveness of the prickly stickers, which are the seedpods, took this worldwide traveler across Europe with the Roman legions, brought it to the Americas with the earlier settlers, and has since distributed it throughout most of the United States and southern Canada; an important state of affairs, as it is such a top-notch edible that it has been especially
indented into large teeth that, many say, resemble those of the king of beasts. DISTRIBUTION: The humble and beautiful dandelion has followed man abundantly to almost every inhabited corner of Canada and the United States. EDIBILITY: The dandelion’s flowers and seed heads are a favorite spring and summer food of Canada geese, grouse, partridge, pheasant, prairie chickens, and quail. Blackbirds, siskins, and sparrows are among the songbirds that relish the seeds. Deer, moose, elks, black bears
distinct petals, and there are ordinarily five stamens. Growing on slim individual stems, they form showy, umbrella-like clumps at the tops of their woolly stalks, followed by slimly oblong or more circular, five-celled seedpods. The branches grow in small bunches from the same group of roots, reaching up to about 4 feet in height, and then die from the tips downward. DISTRIBUTION: Labrador tea, also known as Hudson’s Bay tea across much of northern Canada where the Hudson’s Bay Company still
opossums, raccoon, and the white-footed mice also eat the fruit. Gather your small, tender pokeweed shoots when they are no more than about 8 inches tall. Remove skin and leaves, saving the latter for greens. Simmer the whole stems in a small amount of lightly salted water only until tender. Serve like asparagus, perhaps with drawn butter and a dash of lemon juice or on toast with hollandaise or a light cheese sauce. POPLAR Populus FAMILY: Willow (Salicaceae) OTHER NAMES: Aspen, Quaking
inch long, have twin reddish glands at their tops. Commonly some 45 to 55 feet high, with trunks 1½ to 3 inches through, the rum cherry has irregularly oblong tops when it grows in the open, although in forests it shoots up tall and straight with lofty, comparatively small crowns. The hardy, strong, moderately heavy, beautifully close-grained wood is valuable for panels and furniture, both solid and as a much less expensive veneer, both all the more desirable because of the way it accepts a high