Sam Thayer's Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants

A comprehensive field guide to the edible wild plants of eastern North America. Written by North America’s leading authority on edible wild plants, Sam Thayer, who has eaten every species covered. This book contains 1,700 clear color photos, 625 range maps, and shows 679 edible species.  It also has an innovative new system for identifying plants at their edible stage, with the most thorough and accurate descriptions available.  These excellent descriptions can be used to verify the ID from any phone app before eating the plant.  It also tells you which parts to eat, at what seasons, and helps you distinguish edibles from poisonous and confusing plants, with photos of 26 commonly mistaken species.  

There is an illustrated glossary, foraging calendar arranged by habitat, and of course occasional smart-ass comments to keep you from getting bored by the technical stuff. Sam Thayer lives in Northern Wisconsin.

736 pages