Common Edible & Useful Plants of the West [B0024]

1976, 64-page PB with some creased pages. Relates how the Indians, pioneers, and the early Spanish-Americans used many common wild plants for food, and medicinal uses - and also for making shelters or artifacts. Young Bracken fern shoots substitute for asparagus, clover for tea. Try a decoction made from mugwort next time you get poison oak. Plants are listed in categories such as water plants, shrubs, herbs, trees, vines with black & white drawings to help in identification. Warning is given to avoid poisonous plants.

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "It may be very old, but believe me, the plants haven't changed! Muriel Sweet gives you GREAT information. This is a book for anyone who wants to know the edible plants of the west and what plants NOT to eat in the west! Muriel also gives information on how the food was cooked and eaten, and oftentimes adds some other uses as well. A great book."; "How many of us could survive without a grocery store? We moronic humans need to remember where our food comes from, and quit relying on pollution-spewing diesel trucks to bring it to us."