The quick guide to wild edible plants : : easy to pick, easy to prepare / / Lytton John Musselman and Harold J. Wiggins.

• VerfasserIn: Musselman, Lytton John, 1943-; Wiggins, Harold J., 1953-
• TeilnehmendeR: Wiggins, Harold J., 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Baltimore : : The Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (145 pages) :; color illustrations
• Notes: Includes index.

Table of Contents

Wild plants as food -- Before you begin -- Emergency food -- How to use this book -- Guidelines for using the recipes -- About flavorings, sweeteners, and oils -- Beverages -- Recipes for failure -- Deadly harvest: plants you should avoid -- Poison ivy, Poison oak, Poison sumac -- Poison hemlock -- Mushrooms -- Nature's storehouse of edible plants -- Condiments -- Sassafras -- Field garlic -- Aperitifs -- Swamp bay -- Red spruce -- Greens -- Chicory -- Curly dock -- Glasswort -- Kudzu -- Stinging nettle -- Black walnut -- Starches -- American lotus -- Arrowhead -- Groundnut -- Nut sedge -- Oak -- Softstem bulrush -- Spring beauty -- Grains and grainoids used like grains -- Cane -- Manna grass -- River oats -- Yellow pond lily -- Flowers -- Black locust -- Cattail -- Orange day lily -- Redbud -- Sweets -- Indian strawberry -- Pawpaw -- Cordials -- Blueberries -- Mushrooms -- Oyster mushroom -- Chicken of the woods -- Puffballs.