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u/squidboots · 9 pointsr/witchcraft

Seconding u/theUnmutual6's recommendations, in addition to u/BlueSmoke95's suggestion to check out Ann Moura's work. I would like to recommend Ellen Dugan's Natural Witchery and her related domestic witchery books. Ellen is a certified Master Gardener and incorporates plants into much of her work.

Some of my favorite plant books!

Plant Science:

Plant Physiology and Development (you can get away with the previous edition of this one!)
Botany for Gardeners
Essential Plant Pathology (do NOT get the first edition - the second edition is superior in almost every single way)
American Horticultural Society Plant Propagation: The Fully Illustrated Plant-by-Plant Manual of Practical Techniques

Foraging & Field Guides:
A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and central North America
Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt To Plate
The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants

Herbalism:
Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use (this is the first one I would recommend to novices)
The Herbal Apothecary: 100 Medicinal Herbs and How to Use Them
The Herbal Medicine Maker's Manual
300 Herbs: A Materia Medica
Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Ethnobotany:
A Modern Herbal Vol I and Vol II (these could belong in the above section or here - I love love love these books. I think they are a must for any hedge witch or green witch!!)
Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants and Trees
Whispers from the Woods: The Lore & Magic of Trees
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

I also encourage y'all to look into fungi as well. I work with both plants and fungi and I think they bring a fascinating and fulfilling aspect to my work. Plus, hunting for mushrooms is super fun! I can recommend field guide books for folks who are interested, they just tend to be very region-specific so I'm not going to list all of them here.

For general fungus reading I recommend the following:
Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds
The Fifth Kingdom
Mycelium Running
Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing & Working with Fungi
Mushrooms Demystified

u/thegamesensei · 8 pointsr/Survival

My personal recommendation is that if you want to get really into foraging then you need to pick up the three books that I consider the foragers holy books:

Wild Edible Plants by John Kallas

The Foragers Harvest and Nature's Garden by Samuel Thayer

Both of these books focus on North American foraging (but I assume that's OK with you considering that your books are US based).

I believe that John Kallas is from Oregon and as such many plants are based around that area and just generally west of the Mississippi. I have been able to find some of the plants that he listed in the book (I am from SE part of US), but some are not native/introduced so I will never find them while walking around.

Samuel Thayer is from Michigan area if I remember correctly and so his books focus on my side of the country. His two books are identical in style, but Nature's Garden was written after and contains more plants in number compared to his first. They are both fantastic resources to own.

The reason I prefer these three books is because they do not skip important information and contain many pictures, harvest date ranges, look-alike information, recipes/procedures, and a lot more. These books go out of their way to make sure you forage confidently and with plenty of information.

If you want to get into this hobby, as I have too recently, now is the perfect time to pick up these books and start getting familiar with plants because spring is right around the corner.

Hope this helped and good luck!

edit: grammar

u/eparker319 · 4 pointsr/botany

[This] (http://www.amazon.com/Edible-Wild-Plants-Foods-Adventure/dp/1423601505/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1463064183&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=edible+wild+plants) book will be very helpful as it not only teaches you how to identify edibles, nut also how to prepare and utilize them. It was written by a PhD in Ag from Michigan St. University.

u/BaleZur · 3 pointsr/foraging

Other's have been rather rude about this whole thing. If you are putting low effort into questions we can give you low effort responses--instead of being a toxic community. You'd think as a community we would be able to identify toxic stuff since a huge part of "can I eat this" is "should I be careful of anything that looks like this, but I really REALLY shouldn't eat".

In any case look into a few books.I've got https://www.amazon.com/Edible-Wild-Plants-American-Natural/dp/1402767153 and would recommend it as both a place to start, and reference material. There's a region guide to point you at specific plants to look up online. Once you know a specific plant, find a video ID guide of it online and watch a few, then use the book as reference material when in the field. I recommend https://www.youtube.com/user/EatTheWeeds for videos. He does stuff that's in Florida, but 60-70% of his stuff applies in the "mid-west" states.

You could also use https://www.amazon.com/Edible-Wild-Plants-Foods-Adventure/dp/1423601505 which only covers ~10 plants, but they are plants that can be found almost everywhere.

Before you eat anything, look up "poisonous look alikes *plant name*" where plant name is the name of what you think you've got in your hands (so likely a phone in a field with cell access)

If you need help ID'ing specific plants, come back to this sub.

u/halfascientist · 2 pointsr/askscience

I'm pretty sure it was this. Dunno anything about mushrooms--unfortunately, I hate them!

u/GoLightLady · 2 pointsr/whatsthisplant

http://www.amazon.com/Edible-Wild-Plants-Adventure-Series/dp/1423601505/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1375922689&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=edible+wild+plants

Great book

u/arbutus_ · 2 pointsr/foraging

[Plants of Coastal British Columbia: Including Washington, Oregon and Alaska by Jim Pojar]
(https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1551055325/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1977604502&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=1594853665&amp;pf_rd_m=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&amp;pf_rd_r=ZE56QP0A00SH8K6G23SM)This book here is my holy bible for foraging and IDs. I know you are in Oregon, but I'm on Vancouver Island which is practically in the US and as west coast as it gets. Many of the plants growing where I am grow in parts of Oregon too. Consider fining this book or one similar. IMO a good Id book with images is the most important thing to carry with you (aside from gloves and a pocket knife).

Here are a few books I do not own but have read or heard people recommend.

Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West by Michael Moore

Pacific Northwest Foraging by Douglas Deur

Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt to Plate by John Kallas

u/bellachowchow · 1 pointr/Survival

Wow.. thank you very much for all the great info. I've started learning some edibles, but I'm still wary because I wonder if I have a variety, or cousin which is toxic. Like Barberry, (berberis vulgaris). I've been trying to find some of that to try out a treatment on my Lymes. There are so many other plants that seem so similar, and some are toxic. I'm always worried I will mis-identify a toxic for one that isn't.

I really learned a lot from John Kallas's book: Edible Wild Plants. He has a really thorough write up on each edible, and lots of pics at all life stages. Recipes too. The one drawback to this is that there aren't as many species as I other books I have. But I do feel more confident wildcrafting the edibles he describes because there's lots of info and pics. One I really love is wood sorrel. Its so tasty.

I'd like to learn more about different plant families and their characteristics. I'll have to start researching that.

One last little thought/question I have is: toxic plants often seem to have medicinal properties in low doses. I find that really interesting. How prevelent is it in the plant world, that toxic plants are also curative? I would love to hear your thoughts on that.

cheers

edit: spelling of barberry.

u/heartlessgamer · 1 pointr/gardening

Here is a good book for identifying edible wild plants.

However, the only one I've been brave enough to try is boiled young poke weed leaves... which tasted terrible :P

u/rAtheismSelfPostOnly · 1 pointr/INTPBookmarks

u/ThePrimitive · 1 pointr/collapse

I like this one. It's not the most comprehensive, nor the most general, but I find its approach spot on.