The lush Pacific Northwest coast is home to a multitude of edible and medicinal flora, from marine plants to be harvested in tide pools to edible mushrooms ready to be gleaned from the forest floor. This compact, full-color forager’s guide offers clear photography, descriptions, safety tips, and traditional culinary and medicinal uses for wild-growing native and introduced species in the region, including:
• Big leaf maple—the source of a delicious West Coast maple syrup
• Yellow morel mushrooms—a favorite of foragers, but not to be confused with the poisonous false morel
• Sea asparagus—perfect in salad or with seafood
• Evening primrose—an introduced species used to treat a variety of ailmentsPractical and user-friendly, Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast is an indispensable guide for beginning and experienced foragers alike.
- ISBN10 0295748044
- ISBN13 9780295748047
- Publish Date 31 May 2020 (first published 1 April 2020)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 December 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Washington Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English