Edible Wild Plants: The Complete, Authoritative Guide to Identification and Preparation of North American Edible Wild Plants

xix, 323 pp. Includes an introduction by Ernest Thompson Seton, co-founder of Boy Scouts of America, 19 black-and-white photographs, and 80 pen and ink drawings. This guide by the professor of nature education at The Pennsylvania State College provides information on the characteristics and culinary uses of more than one hundred and fifty species, including fruits, berries, salad plants and pot herbs, roots and tubers, nuts, beverage and flowering plants, seeds, and seed pods. Plants are listed by type and species as well as by reigion; descriptions include characteristics, when each is in season, and scientific and common names.