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Edible Wild Plants: Eastern/Central North America (Peterson Field Guides) Paperback – September 1, 1999

by Roger Tory Peterson (Author)
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An invaluable resource for foragers and outdoor enthusiasts.

More than 370 edible wild plants, and 37 poisonous lookalikes, are described in A Peterson Field Guide To Edible Wild Plants—plus, 400 drawings and 78 color photographs showing precisely how to recognize each species. Also included are habitat descriptions, lists of plants by season, and preparation instructions for 22 different food uses.

For more than 85 years, Peterson Field Guides have set the standard by which other field guides are measured. Comprehensive and authoritative, they are essential additions to any naturalist's bookshelf or backpack.

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ROGER TORY PETERSON, one of the world’s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books (September 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 039592622X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0395926222
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.5 x 0.93 x 7.25 inches
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4.7 out of 5 stars
3,377 global ratings

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Customers find the information quality good, thorough, and accurate. They appreciate the excellent illustrations and sketches of representative plants. Readers also describe the book as easy to understand, concise, and read. They say it's useful on hikes, and could be tremendously useful in a survival situation. They appreciate the well-organized layout and simple structure. Readers mention the book covers many plants. Opinions differ on the pictures quality.

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327 customers mention "Information quality"302 positive25 negative

Customers find the book has good information. They say it's a great reference, with extensive recommended reading and additional resources. Readers also mention the book is thorough and accurate. They appreciate the useful index and table of contents.

"...It teaches some mushroom are eatable as others are poisonous. It also shows a lot of common plants that are eatable...." Read more

"Easy to use. Portable. Loaded with information. Easily find yourself lunch in your back yard. I recommend everyone own one" Read more

"...It's easy to read, understand and the pictures are great." Read more

"...The descriptions are generally brief and include measurements, what types of areas it is found in, and when it flowers or when certain parts are..." Read more

85 customers mention "Illustrations"68 positive17 negative

Customers find the illustrations in the book excellent and great. They also mention it's replete with sketches, photos, and detailed full-color illustrations. Readers also appreciate the basic terminology and imagery.

"...Overall an excellent starter guide for the region with basic terminology and imagery...." Read more

"...They all have pictures and drawings to help with identification. The actual entries are concise...." Read more

"...The sketches are excellent, and there are color photos in the middle of the book...." Read more

"...are a few color pictures of plants in the wild, but most illustrations are pencil drawings, which for me is not very helpful especially when a..." Read more

77 customers mention "Ease of understanding"68 positive9 negative

Customers find the book easy to understand, use, and look up information. They also say it's clear, concise, and easy to read. Readers appreciate the detailed drawings that are very easy to distinguish. Overall, they say it's good for basic identification and like how the narrative is written.

"Easy to use. Portable. Loaded with information. Easily find yourself lunch in your back yard. I recommend everyone own one" Read more

"...It's easy to read, understand and the pictures are great." Read more

"...Organization is logical and easy to follow...." Read more

"...This book arrived quickly and in perfect condition. It's easy to read, well-organized, and contains copious amounts of information...." Read more

28 customers mention "Use"28 positive0 negative

Customers find the book useful for hiking, camping, and survival situations. They say it's an excellent resource for outdoor enthusiasts and a great book for backpacking.

"...This one is the most well rounded and useful. Good quality pictures (some color, most black and white). Tons of plants described in detail...." Read more

"...Get it. Very entertaining and quite useful to have on hand." Read more

"Really handy, im still getting used to it but its been helpful thus far. I think anybody would be able to understand this!" Read more

"...Otherwise excellent resource for the outdoors enthusiast." Read more

23 customers mention "Organization"19 positive4 negative

Customers find the book well-organized. They appreciate the simple layout, clear structure, and logical format. Readers also mention the book is broken down into sections for ease of understanding.

"This book has a LOT of plants in it, and organizes it several different ways: by immediate surroundings, by time of year, by use...." Read more

"...Organization is logical and easy to follow...." Read more

"...It's easy to read, well-organized, and contains copious amounts of information...." Read more

"Small enough to carry in your hip pocket or pack while hiking. Very logical format for guiding you from a plant of fruit you see to identification..." Read more

16 customers mention "Plant variety"14 positive2 negative

Customers find the book covers a wide variety of species. They say it contains a lot of entries and is good for expanding their knowledge. Readers mention the book comes with uses for every plant and fills in nicely with other books.

"This book has a LOT of plants in it, and organizes it several different ways: by immediate surroundings, by time of year, by use...." Read more

"...It contains a large amount of plants with keys to positive identification, which is vitally important when you want to eat the plants...." Read more

"...This book even comes with uses for every plant, and where the plant can be found...." Read more

"It's very informative and has a good variety of plants shown...." Read more

12 customers mention "Color photos"12 positive0 negative

Customers find the color photos in the book helpful for identifying edible plants. They also appreciate that the book is divided into sections on flower colors, terrains, and types of foods.

"...The sketches are excellent, and there are color photos in the middle of the book...." Read more

"...The book is divided into flower color sections as well as terain sections and types of food sections...." Read more

"...It does contain some color photos, but far more drawings than photos. I really like the skull icon indicating those that are poisonous!..." Read more

"...I especially appreciate the colored picture section. Too bad the whole book couldn't be in color...." Read more

87 customers mention "Pictures quality"48 positive39 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the pictures in the book. Some mention they're nice, vivid, and black-and-white. Others say the book relies on drawings and has very few color photos. They also mention the color plates are of very low resolution and not the actual photo of the plant.

"...It's easy to read, understand and the pictures are great." Read more

"...The color plates are of very low resolution. The author states that they were taken with a film camera, as one would expect for 1977...." Read more

"...This one is the most well rounded and useful. Good quality pictures (some color, most black and white). Tons of plants described in detail...." Read more

"...Pictures are all in the middle so you have to refer to a picture on a different page. Overall just a lesser quality book...." Read more

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I use this resource often. It is one of several Peterson Field Guides in my personal library. The drawings, color plates, and descriptions are high-quality. The size is compact, and the cover is sturdy. This reliable Peterson guidebook will definitely help with plant identification. Thanks to the author Lee Allen Peterson, son of pioneer guidebook author Roger Tory Peterson, and to publisher Houghton Mifflin Company (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)!
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medicine Woman
5.0 out of 5 stars Great survival Technique
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2012
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love your book it is a real survival benefit for everyone I would recommend it to everyone. It teaches of the plants that I have learned when I was a child such as the berries of blueberries, blackberries, raspberries,strawberries and even the wild grapes that grew abundantly all around us when my family and I grew up. we had apple trees but no one knew how to take care of them as i am now trying to learn how to take care of my few dwarf apple and cherry trees and i am still i the learning process.It teaches you poisonous plants to be ware of like our childhood experiences with Poison Ivy, Oak and Sumac however i never knew that Jewel weed grew near it and that it was the remedy or antidote to cure your ailments.It teaches some mushroom are eatable as others are poisonous. It also shows a lot of common plants that are eatable.
There are even some flowers that today are known to be eatable as well as what I have researched thanks to the Scientific study proof .
There were many of these that I just took for granted of the beauty that captured my eyes as well as my heart that we used to pick while my brothers and sisters walked along with me those few miles back and forth almost every day out to the Little Country store on the back roads behind our first high way.
We would always just admire all the tiger Lilly's that grew along side the road as later in the future I showed that same road to my future husband while we were in the beginning of courting each other that took us off into another road that lead us through the sweet scent of the of the most beautiful wild Lilacs of many different colors which really set the the scenery of our love that only deepened of the paradise that we had found together along with all the memories of my childhood days that brought us to that day near that beautiful lake that we used to swim at where my best friend and I used to go when we met in 1976.
It brought me back to the days of when I used to pick Wild Strawberries and Pussy Willows when I used to visit my friend who had a lot of cats and where my brothers would play ball down the ball field as I would stop in and sit on the bleachers and and catch the last inning cheering them on as I walked up the big hill on the opposite road cutting through a short cut while grabbing a few handful of sour Wild Grapes of my neighbors Grapevine that grew along that road that lead to my home of my Mom and dads house that lastly they would catch me snacking on their little Wild Blueberry bush as i would come home with a Pink Rose with in my hand as the sun would set before my curfew began.
Then in the morning I would walk down by the old beach that was down fro us and I would just wade in the water as thoughts of my fiance would go through my head of the wonder memories that i shared with him of my childhood life yet my heart would be filled with the new memories that we had shared together with future memories that would be made together. Dreams from my first garden which was carrots to my wild berry picking that lead from the Tiger Lilly's from that little country store and back to that day of where my husband and I found that little Paradise with all the wonder scents of the Lilacs and other flower scents that would carry me through out my life of the many wonderful sites that we have been before we were even together and after where today flowers have even been discovered to be eatable as well as the many different herbs and plants that someone born from yesterday could only be capture by all their beauty.If only the children of today could have lived with in our life time and see and experience what we have experienced and appreciate what they have our children would not only know but feel all the love that has surrounded us for all those years however it is sad because in this modern day world of convenience they may only get to have a glimpse of our world and they can never understand. I am just glad that our son who is now 19 has that chance to at least learn of some of our ways of what he knows to be Organics but what was not know way back then.
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medicine
Thank you again for this book that brings all those memories back to my husband, my family and me.
I should write a book as my sons say that I have that potential because I have much more that could be told only I will save that for another time just get the book and you will see as I edit more to my true story.
So I will catch you all later.medicine
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great information
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2024
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Easy to use. Portable. Loaded with information. Easily find yourself lunch in your back yard. I recommend everyone own one
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Ej
5.0 out of 5 stars It's easy to carry, read and light weight
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2024
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I ordered this to help me with my college course and it's well worth it. It's easy to read, understand and the pictures are great.
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Joseph
4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Book, FIELD GUIDES AREN'T FOR SURVIVAL
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2014
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"Survival this, Survival that". Ok people, if you are in a true survival situation then chances are you won't really have a set of field guides just laying around. These are designed to be field guides, aka., used on planned trips into nature for the purpose of identification and utilization. They are NOT for emergency situations. If you can't identify it, you don't use it. Now on to the review.

The book is fairly decent. Looks like any other guide from this series. Each plant has its common and scientific name, what part of the plant is edible (or whether it is / may be toxic). Images are all line drawings except for the 15 plates which are colored photographs located in the middle of the book. The descriptions are generally brief and include measurements, what types of areas it is found in, and when it flowers or when certain parts are produced (like seeds or leaves). Has a wide variety of plants and types. One thing I was put off by is the lack of Lemon Balm in the mint section. This may be due to the fact it is not native to the United States, but was just surprised since it is such a popular member of the mint family. I have a ton of it growing outside my house and actually just picked a bunch of leaves for tea. Unsure if this is a common theme throughout the book. Again, it may just be that some non-native plants were left out regardless of their popularity and uses.

Remember, neither the Peterson series nor any other field guide I know of for that matter is designed for survival. All the reviews bashing them from that aspect are poorly thought out. They exist to help you train your skills in the field. Only an idiot would think he/she could adequately survive solely on books instead of honing the skills that the books teach. And again, no field guide can have every single plant species you will come across. Use the book to actually learn and remember: what they look like, what parts can be used, and how to use them. There is no one book solution so consider having companion books. For example, I have two main books on tree identification and two smaller ones that fit in my pocket. I have no excuse to inaccurately identify a tree. Same goes for edible plants and fungi.

Don't be an idiot. NEVER base survival around a book. You're just asking for trouble.
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Devona
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2024
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Keith R.
5.0 out of 5 stars My go-to book for finding wild edible plants!
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2024
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This book has a LOT of plants in it, and organizes it several different ways: by immediate surroundings, by time of year, by use. I have used other books, but I always come back to this one! Make sure it is correct for your area, and this book is pretty much all you need for finding wild edibles. I highly recommend!
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frugal lady
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2024
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Informative book
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Jan Penland
5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME BOOK!
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024
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This book not only has a great story line but is filled with knowledge on wild herbal uses. I highly recommend it whether or not you buy the first book in the series.
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Michelle Moses
5.0 out of 5 stars It’s a must have. The mushroom one is great too!
Reviewed in Canada on May 28, 2021
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The book is exactly what I was looking for as a quick field guide reference. I use this book when I am out in the field. The drawings are very helpful for plant ID and easy to follow. The pictures are stunning. I am not new to foraging or botany and this is a go to.
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mckenzie
5.0 out of 5 stars plant info
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2015
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An excellent book - full of information
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scott sarty
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for anyone interested in edible wild plants
Reviewed in Canada on March 4, 2020
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This is an excellent field guide for edible wild plants in my area. It is well organized and thoughtfully laid out. Key identifying features of plants are highlighted for confident identification. Time of year and uses are also handy.

The best feature of the book is how well it identifies poisonous plants that may be confused with ones safe to eat!! Many books do not do this well enough.

Highly recommended.
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Cheryl
5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed descriptions, notes section at the end. Great book
Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2019
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This book is the perfect size to take with on a hike and/or foraging adventure. It is easy to read, has detailed pictures, detailed descriptions as well as many local plants as i had hoped/the title suggested. I also like the blank notes pages at the end so that i can note the plants that i’ve seen around and would like to look for. I am very pleased with this purchase.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad
Reviewed in Canada on August 11, 2020
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Its filled with plenty of useful information (wish there were more mushrooms) my only criticism is the book being 90% black and white. meaning theres a very small number of pages in the middle that are full color but even the color images are very difficult to tell, the lighting in the pictures are really off for some reason.

but the nature of the book being black and white isn't that bad but it does make it quite difficult to tell very obvious characteristics of a plant right away cause you cant rely on the most obvious indicator of color to know if you're even looking at the right plant. So I'm half tempted to take some pencil crayons to the pages myself to fill in the missing color.

either way, great field manual, already managed to identify half a dozen wild edibles just walking down my street. amazing how many weeds are edibles.
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