Edible Plants : A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America

"For over a decade, artist Jimmy Fike traveled across the continental United States in an epic effort to photograph wild edible flora. Edible Plants is the culmination of that journey, featuring over 100 photographs that Fike has selectively colorized to highlight the comestible part of the plant. While the images initially appear to be scientific illustrations or photograms from the dawn of photography when plants were placed directly on sensitized paper and exposed under the sun, a closer look reveals, according to Liesl Bradner of the Los Angeles Times, "haunting [and] eerily beautiful" photographs. Beyond instilling wonder, Fike's contemporary, place-based approach to landscape photography emphasizes our relationship to the natural world, reveals food sources, and encourages environmental stewardship. His clever and beautiful method makes it easy to identify both the specimen and its edible parts and includes detailed descriptions about the plant's wider purposes as food and medicine. Sumptuously illustrated and delightfully informative, Edible Plants is the perfect gift for anyone curious about unlocking the secrets of native North American plants"-- Provided by publisher Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword by Millee Tibbs Foreword by Dr. Mark K. Wourms Preface Acknowledgments Agoseris Amaranth American Lotus American Speedwell Angelica Arrowleaf Balsamroot Asparagus Autumn Olive Ballhead Waterleaf Bedstraw Bracken Fern Broadleaf Plantain Bugleweed Burdock California Poppy Canadian Violet Cattail Chestnut Oak Chia Chickweed Chiming Bells Chokeberry Clover Cow Parsnip Curly Dock Dandelion Desert Hollygrape Desert Parsley Desert Trumpet Eastern Hemlock Eastern White Pine Echinacea Elderberry False Solomon’s Seal Field Mint Field Pennycress Filaree Gill-over-the-ground Ginkgo Ginseng Glacier Lily Gooseberry Greenbrier Ground Cherry Heal-all Hedge Mustard Henbit Hibiscus Hoary Mountain Mint Hooker’s Evening Primrose Horehound Indian Cucumber Ithuriel’s Spear Jojoba Juniper Kentucky Coffee Tree Lemonade Berry Lemon Balm Licorice Fern London Rocket Man-of-the-earth Manzanita Marsh Mallow Marsh Marigold Mayapple Mesquite Miner’s Lettuce Mock Strawberry Monkey Flower Nettle-leaf Goosefoot Oxeye Daisy Pale Touch-me-not Palo Verde Pawpaw Pickerelweed Pineapple Weed Prickly Lettuce Purslane Raspberry Salmonberry Sassafras Sea Beans Sego Lily Sheep Sorrel Shisho Shooting Star Silverweed Skunk Cabbage Soap Plant Solomon’s Seal Spicebush Spring Beauty Stonecrop Sumac Sunflower Swamp Hedge Nettle Walnut Wapato Watercress Water Lily Wild Ginger Wild Oats Wild Oregano Wild Radish Wild Rhubarb Wild Rose Wintergreen Wolfberry Wood Nettle Yampa Yellow Bells Yellow Wood Sorrel Yerba Santa

For over a decade, artist Jimmy Fike traveled across the continental United States in an epic effort to photograph wild edible flora. Edible Plants is the culmination of that journey, featuring over 100 photographs that Fike has selectively colorized to highlight the comestible part of the plant.

While the images initially appear to be scientific illustrations or photograms from the dawn of photography when plants were placed directly on sensitized paper and exposed under the sun, a closer look reveals, according to Liesl Bradner of the Los Angeles Times, "haunting [and] eerily beautiful" photographs. Beyond instilling wonder, Fike's contemporary, place-based approach to landscape photography emphasizes our relationship to the natural world, reveals food sources, and encourages environmental stewardship. His clever and beautiful method makes it easy to identify both the specimen and its edible parts and includes detailed descriptions about the plant's wider purposes as food and medicine.

Sumptuously illustrated and delightfully informative, Edible Plants is the perfect gift for anyone curious about unlocking the secrets of native North American plants.

For over a decade, artist Jimmy Fike traveled across the continental United States in an epic effort to photograph wild edible flora. __Edible Plants__ is the culmination of that journey, featuring over 100 photographs that Fike has selectively colorized to highlight the comestible part of the plant. Sumptuously illustrated and delightfully informative, __Edible Plants__ is the perfect gift for anyone curious about unlocking the secrets of native North American plants.