276 Edible Wild Plants of the United States and Canada: Berries, Roots, Nuts, Greens, Flowers, and Seeds in All or the Majority of the US and Canada

Self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock shares his expertise on living off the land in 276 Edible Wild Plants of the United States and Canada. Packed with over 800 photographs of over 250 wild berries, roots, nuts, greens, and flowers, this valuable reference will show you which plants are edible, where to find them, how to prepare them, and how to avoid poisonous look-alikes. With a focus on plants found throughout the United States and Canada, it's the most exhaustive reference book of its kind!

ISBN-13: 9781641702423

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Familius

Publication Date: 04-13-2021

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Caleb Warnock is the popular author of Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency, The Art of Baking with Natural Yeast, Backyard Winter Gardening For All Climates, More Forgotten Skills, Trouble's On The Menu, and the Backyard Renaissance Collection. He is the owner of SeedRenaissance.com and blogs at CalebWarnock.blogspot.com, where you will find a link to join his email list to learn more about forgotten skills.

Table of Contents

Welcome to the World of Wild Foods 1

Part 1 The Plants

1 Abutilon theophrasti (velventlead)

2 Acer negundo (box elder maple)

3 Achillea millefolium (Western yarrow)

4 Aegilops cylindrical (jointed goatgrass)

5 Agastache foeniculum (blue giant hussop)

6 Amaranthus Species

7 Amaranthus albus (tumble pigweed)

8 Amaranthus blitoides (mat amaranth, prostrate pigweed)

9 Amaranthus hybridus (slim amaranth)

10 Amaranthus powellii (powell's amaranth)

11 Amaranthus retroflexus (redroot pigweed, redroot amaranth)

12 Amaranthus tuberculatus (roughfruit amaranth)

13 Amelanchier alnifolia (Saskatoon serviceberry)

14 Arctium minus (lesser burdock)

15 Argentina anserine (silverweed cinquefoil)

16 Artemisia frigida (fringed sagebrush)

17 Asclepias Species

18 Asclepias incarnate (swamp milkweed)

19 Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)

20 Asclepias verticillata (whorled milkweed)

21 Asclepias viridiflora (green comet milkweed)

22 Avena Species

23 Avena fatua (wild oat)

24 Avena sativa (common oat)

25 Barbarea Species

26 Barbarea vulgaris (garden yellowrocket)

27 Barbarea orthoceras (American yellowrocket)

28 Brassica Species

29 Brassica juncea (brown mustard)

30 Brassica napus (grape mustard)

31 Brassica nigra (black mustard)

32 Brassica rapa (field mustard)

33 Bromus Species

34 Bromus japonicus (Japanese brome, field brome)

35 Bromus secdlinus (cheat, rye brome)

36 Bromus tectorum (downy brome, cheat grass)

37 Calypso bulbosa (fairy slipper)

38 Calystegia sepium (hedge bindweed)

39 Camelina Species

40 Camelina microcarpa (lesser gold of pleasure)

41 Camelina sativa (gold of pleasure)

42 Campanula rapunculoides (creeping bellflower)

43 Capsella bursa-pastoris (shepherds purse)

44 Cardamine pensylvanica (Pennsylvania bittercress)

45 Cardaria draba (whitetop, hoary cress)

46 Carduus nutans (musk thistle)

47 Carum carvi (common caraway)

48 Celtis occidentalis (hackberries)

49 Cenchrus longispinus (longspine sandbur)

50 Centaurea cyanus (garden cornflower)

51 Chamerion Species

52 Chamerion angustifolium (fireweed)

53 Chamerion latifolium (dwarf fireweed)

54 Chenopodium Species

55 Chenopodium album (lamb's-quarters, wild spinach)

56 Chenopodium berlandieri (goosefoot, netseed lamb's-quarters)

57 Chenopodium murale (nettleleaf goosefoot)

58 Chorispora tenella (blue mustard)

59 Cichoriuin intybus (chicory)

60 Cirsium Species

61 Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle)

62 Cirsium vulgare (common thistle, bull thistle)

63 Cleome serrulata (Rocky Mountain bee plant)

64 Convolvulus arvensis (field bindweed)

65 Conyza canadensis (horseweed)

66 Cornus Species

67 Cornus canadensis (creeping dogwood)

68 Cornus sericea (Western dogwood)

69 Corylus cornuta (beaked hazelnut)

70 Crataegus Species

71 Crataegus chrysocarpa (red haw tree)

72 Crataegus succulenta (fleshy hawthorn)

73 Crepis Species

74 Crepis capillaris (smooth hawksbeard)

75 Crepis nana (dwarf alpine hawksbeard)

76 Cycloioma atriplicifolium (winged pigweed)

77 Cynoglossum officinale (houndstongue, gypsyflower)

78 Cypernus Species

79 Cyperus eryihrorhizos (redroot flatsedge)

80 Cyperus esculentus (yellow nutsedge)

81 Cyperus odoratus (fragrant flatsedge)

82 Cyperus schweinitzii (Schweinitz's flatsedge)

83 Cyperus squarrosus (bearded flatsedge)

84 Daucus carota (wild carrot)

88 Descurainia Species

86 Descurainia pinnata (Western tansy mustard)

87 Descurainia sophia (flixweed, herb sophia)

88 Digitaria sanguinalis (hairy crabgrass)

89 Elaeagnus Species

90 Elaeagnus angustifolia (Russian olive)

91 Elaeagnus commutata (silverberry)

92 Eleusine indica (goosegrass)

93 Elymus repens (harsh Indian paintbrush)

94 Equisetum Species

95 Equisetum arvense (horsetail grass)

96 Equisetum laevigatum (smooth horsetail)

97 Equisetum hyemale (scouringrush horsetail)

98 Equisetum pratense (meadow horsetail)

99 Equisetum scirpoides (dwarf scouringrush)

100 Equisetum variegatum (variegated scouringrush)

101 Erodium cicutarium (redstem filaree, stork's bill)

103 Fragaria Species

103 Fragaria vesca (woodland, alpine, or wild strawberry)

104 Fragaria virginiana (Virginia strawberry)

108 Galium aparine (cleavers, goosegrass)

108 Gaultheria hispidula (creeping snowberry)

107 Geranium bicknellii (Bicknell's cranesbill)

108 Helianthus Species

109 Helianthus annuus (common sunflower)

110 Helianthus maximiliani (Maximilian sunflower)

111 Helianthus pauciflorus(stiff sunflower)

112 Helianthus petiolaris (prairie sunflower)

113 Helianthus tuberosus (sunchokes, Jerusalem artichoke)

114 Hibiscus trionum (Venice mallow)

115 Hordeum jubalum (foxtail barley, squirrel-tail grass)

116 Juglans nigra (black walnut)

117 Kochia scoparia (kochia)

118 Lactuca pulchella (blue lettuce)

119 Lamium Species

120 Lamium amplexicaule (henbit)

121 Lamium purpureum (purple dead nettle)

122 Lathyrus latifolius (everlasting peavine, wild sweet pea)

123 Lepidium perfoliatum (clasping pepperweed)

124 Lolium perenne (Italian ryegrass)

125 Lycium barbarum (gojiberry, wolfberry)

126 Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife, purple lythrum)

127 Malus domestica (common apple)

128 Malva ncglecta (common mallow)

139 Matricaria discoidea (pineapple weed)

130 Burclover Species

131 Medicago lupulina (black medic)

132 Medicago polymorpha (snooth hawksbeard)

133 Medicago sativa (alfalfa)

134 Sweetclover Species

136 Melilotus albus (white sweetclover)

136 Melilotus indicas (Indian sweetclover)

137 Melilotus officinalis (yellow sweetclover)

138 Moms alba (white mulberry)

139 Nasturtium officinale (watercress)

140 Opuntia Species

141 Opuntia humifusa (devil's tongue)

142 Opuntia (prickly pear)

143 Oxalis Species

144 Oxalis corniculata (creeping woodsorrel)

145 Oxalis stricta (yellow woodsorrel)

146 Panicum Species

147 Panicum dichotomiflorum (fall panicum)

148 Panicum miliaceum (wild-proso millet)

149 Phragmites australis (common reed)

150 Physalis Species

151 Physalis heterophylla (clammy groundcherry)

152 Physalis longifolia (longleaf groundcherry)

153 Plantain Species

154 Plantago lanceolata (narrowleaf plantain)

155 Plantago major (broadleaf plantain)

156 Polygonum Species

157 Polygonum amphibium (willow grass, water knotweed)

158 Polygonum arenastrum (small-leafed knotweed, oval-leaf knotweed)

159 Polygonum cuspidatum (Japanese knotweed)

160 Polygonum lapathifolium (curlytop knotweed)

161 Polypogon monspeliensis (rabbitfoot polypogon)

162 Polygonum persicaria (spotted ladysthumb)

163 Portulaca oleracea (common purslane)

164 Prunus Species

165 Prunus americana (American wild plum)

166 Prunus pumila (sandcherry)

167 Prunus persica (peach)

168 Prunus serotina (blackcherry)

169 Prunus virginiana (Western chokecherry, black chokecherry)

170 Additional Prunus Species

171 Pyrus communis (common pear)

172 Raphanus Species

173 Raphanus raphanistrum (wild radish)

174 Raphanus sativus (garden radish)

175 Rhus glabra (smooth sumac)

176 Ribes Species

177 Ribes aureum (golden currant)

178 Ribes americanum (American black currant)

179 Ribes lacustre (prickly black currant)

180 Additional Ribes Species

181 Rose Species

182 Rosa rubiginosa (sweetbriar rose)

183 Rosa woodsii (Western wild rose)

184 Rubus Species

185 Rubus flagellaris (Northern dewberry)

186 Rubus allegheniensis (allegheny blackberry)

187 Rubus armcniacus (Himalayan blackberry)

188 Rubus idaeus (wild raspberries)

189 Rubus occidentalis (black raspberries)

190 Additional Rubus Species

191 Rumex Species

192 Rumex acetosella (sheep sorrel)

193 Rumex crispus (curly dock, yellow dock)

194 Rumex obtusifolius (broadleaf dock)

195 Sagittaria cuneata (wapato, arumleaf, arrowhead)

196 Salsola tragus (Russian thistle)

197 Sambucus Species

198 Sambucus nigra (blue elderberry)

199 Sambucus racemosa (red elderberry)

200 Secale cereale (cereal rye)

201 Setaria pumila (yellow foxtail)

202 Sowthistle Species

203 Sonchus arvensis (sowthistle)

204 Sonchus asper (spiny sowthistle)

205 Sonchus oleraceus (common sowthistle)

206 Sorbus scopulina (European mountain ash)

207 Sorghum Species

208 Sorghum bicolor (wild grain sorghum)

209 Sorghum halepense (jolnsongrass)

210 Stellaria media (chickweed)

211 Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)

212 Thlaspi arvense (field pennycress)

213 Tragopogon Species

214 Tragopogon dubius (yellow salsify)

216 Tragopogon pratensis (goat's beard, meadow salsify)

216 Tragopogon porrifolius (salsify)

217 Trifolium Species

218 Trifolium hybridum (alsike clover)

219 Trifolium incarnatum (crimson clover)

220 Trifolium repens (white clover, Dutch clover)

221 Trifolium pratense (red clover)

222 Additional Trifolium Species

223 Typha Species

224 Typha angustifolia (narrowleaf cattail)

225 Typha glauca (hybrid cattail)

226 Typha latifolia (broadleaf cattail)

227 Urtica dioica (stinging nettle)

228 Vaccinium Species (blueberries)

229 Addtional Vaccinium Species

230 Viola canadensis (Canadian white violet)

231 Vitus Species

232 Vitis aestivalis (summer grape)

233 Vitis riparia (riverbank rape)

234 Addtional Vitis Species

Part 2 Useful Lists, and Q&A

235 Important for Food Value

236 Wild Edibles I Eat Most

237 Fruits & Berries

238 Significant Grains & Seeds

239 Nuts

240 Significant Roots & Tubers

241 Trees / Shrubs / Bushes

242 Poisons

243 Questions and Answers

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