Caleb Warnock - 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

Copyright 2020 by Caleb Warnock

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Special thanks to the Washington Department of Ecology for the use of their image of Typha glauca.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019953190

Print ISBN 9781641702423

Ebook ISBN 9781641702829

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CALEB WARNOCK

CONTENTS

Welcome to the World of Wild Foods .............................................................1

PART ONE : THE PLANTS

Abutilon theophrasti (velvetleaf)

Acer negundo (box elder maple)

Achillea millefolium (Western yarrow)

Aegilops cylindrica (jointed goatgrass)

Agastache foeniculum (blue giant hyssop)

Amaranthus Species

Amaranthus albus (tumble pigweed)

Amaranthus blitoides (mat amaranth, prostrate pigweed)

Amaranthus hybridus (slim amaranth)

Amaranthus powellii (Powells amaranth)

Amaranthus retrofl exus (redroot pigweed, redroot amaranth)

Amaranthus tuberculatus (roughfruit amaranth)

Amelanchier alnifolia (Saskatoon serviceberry)

Arctium minus (lesser burdock)

Argentina anserina (silverweed cinquefoil)

Artemisia frigida (fringed sagebrush)

Asclepias Species

Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed)

Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)

Asclepias verticillata (whorled milkweed)

Asclepias viridifl ora (green comet milkweed)

Avena Species

Avena fatua (wild oat)

Avena sativa (common oat)

Barbarea Species

Barbarea vulgaris (garden yellowrocket)

Barbarea orthoceras (American yellowrocket)

Brassica Species

Brassica juncea (brown mustard)

Brassica napus (grape mustard)

Brassica nigra (black mustard)

Brassica rapa (field mustard)

Bromus Species

Bromus japonicus (Japanese brome, field brome)

Bromus secalinus (cheat, rye brome)

Bromus tectorum (downy brome, cheat grass)

Calypso bulbosa (fairy slipper)

Calystegia sepium (hedge bindweed)

Camelina Species

Camelina microcarpa (lesser gold of pleasure)

Camelina sativa (gold of pleasure)

Campanula rapunculoides (creeping bellflower)

Capsella bursa-pastoris (shepherds purse)

Cardamine pensylvanica (Pennsylvania bittercress)

Cardaria draba (whitetop, hoary cress)

Carduus nutans (musk thistle)

Carum carvi (common caraway)

Celtis occidentalis (hackberries)

Cenchrus longispinus (longspine sandbur)

Centaurea cyanus (garden cornflower)

Chamerion Species

Chamerion angustifolium (fireweed)

Chamerion latifolium (dwarf fireweed)

Chenopodium Species

Chenopodium album (lambs-quarters, wild spinach)

Chenopodium berlandieri (goosefoot, netseed lambs-quarters)

Chenopodium murale (nettleleaf goosefoot)

Chorispora tenella (blue mustard)

Cichorium intybus (chicory)

Cirsium Species

Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle)

Cirsium vulgare (common thistle, bull thistle)

Cleome serrulata (Rocky Mountain bee plant)

Convolvulus arvensis (field bindweed)

Conyza canadensis (horseweed)

Cornus Species

Cornus canadensis (creeping dogwood)

Cornus sericea (Western dogwood)

Corylus cornuta (beaked hazelnut)

Crataegus Species

Crataegus chrysocarpa (red haw tree)

Crataegus succulenta (fleshy hawthorn)

Crepis Species

Crepis capillaris (smooth hawksbeard)

Crepis nana (dwarf alpine hawksbeard)

Cycloloma atriplicifolium (winged pigweed)

Cynoglossum officinale (houndstongue, gypsyflower)

Cypernus Species

Cyperus erythrorhizos (redroot flatsedge)

Cyperus esculentus (yellow nutsedge)

Cyperus odoratus (fragrant flatsedge)

Cyperus schweinitzii (Schweinitzs flatsedge)

Cyperus squarrosus (bearded flatsedge)

Daucus carota (wild carrot)

Descurainia Species

Descurainia pinnata (Western tansy mustard)

Descurainia sophia (flixweed, herb sophia)

Digitaria sanguinalis (hairy crabgrass)

Elaeagnus Species

Elaeagnus angustifolia (Russian olive)

Elaeagnus commutata (silverberry)

Eleusine indica (goosegrass)

Elymus repens (harsh Indian paintbrush)

Equisetum Species

Equisetum arvense (horsetail grass)

Equisetum laevigatum (smooth horsetail)

Equisetum hyemale (scouringrush horsetail)

Equisetum pratense (meadow horsetail)

Equisetum scirpoides (dwarf scouringrush)

Equisetum variegatum (variegated scouringrush)

Erodium cicutarium (redstem filaree, storks bill)

Fragaria Species

Fragaria vesca (woodland, alpine, or wild strawberry)

Fragaria virginiana (Virginia strawberry)

Galium aparine (cleavers, goosegrass)

Gaultheria hispidula (creeping snowberry)

Geranium bicknellii (Bicknells cranesbill)

Helianthus Species

Helianthus annuus (common sunflower)

Helianthus maximiliani (Maximilian sunflower)

Helianthus pauciflorus (stiff sunflower)

Helianthus petiolaris