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Books · Field guides
Peterson Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants
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Lee Allen Peterson · Updated August 2026
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Why it earned a place
Portable keys, habitat notes, and comparison species create a useful foundation for supervised field learning.
- Best for
- Building identification vocabulary and confirming common regional plants
- Material / format
- Paperback · 330 pages · ISBN 9780395926222
- Know before buying
- Never eat a wild plant from a single-source identification
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Selection notes
A first reference, never the final word.
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