📚 Edible Plants

The wild pantry: what the field and forest offer to eat, how to know it, and the boundary between salad and poison.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject edible plants in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Stalking the wild asparagus	Euell Gibbons	1962	11
	Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America	Merritt Lyndon Fernald	1943	9
	Food for Free	Richard Mabey	1972	9
	The Columbian exchange	Alfred W. Crosby	1972	8
	Vegetable substances used for the food of man	Edwin Lankester	1832	7
	Wild plants for survival in south Florida	Julia Frances Morton	1962	6
	The edible wild	Berndt Berglund	1971	6
	Eating and healing	Andrea Pieroni	2005	6
	Useful plants of Malawi	Jessie Williamson	1956	5
	Eat the weeds	Ben Charles Harris	1961	5
	Common edible and useful plants of the West	Muriel Sweet	1962	5
	Frutas comestíveis da Amazônia	Paulo B. Cavalcante	1972	5
	Earth medicine--earth foods	Michael A. Weiner	1972	5
	Herbs and medicinal plants	Madge Hooper	1984	5
	Herbs and how to know them	Mary Thorne Quelch	1946	4
	Eat the weeds	Ben Charles Harris	1955	4
	Fifty plants that changed the course of history	Bill Laws	2010	4
	Edible Seaweeds of the World	Leonel Pereira	2016	4
	Handbook of Phytochemical Constituent Grass, Herbs and Other Economic Plants	James A. Duke	2017	4
	Flora diaetetica: or, History of esculent plants, both domestic and foreign	Charles Bryant	1783	3
	Mushrooms and toadstools	Worthington George Smith	1867	3
	British edible fungi	M. C. Cooke	1891	3
	Vegetables of the Dutch East Indies (edible tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, and spices included)	Ochse, J. J.	1931	3
	Edible wild plants	Oliver Perry Medsger	1939	3
	Nature's garden for victory and peace	George Washington Carver	1942	3
	Flowers in Britain	Brimble, L. J. F.	1944	3
	Indian harvest	Jannette May Lucas	1945	3
	Useful plants of Nyasaland	Jessie Williamson	1955	3
	Folklore & odysseys of food & medicinal plants	Ernst Lehner	1962	3
	Edible native plants of the Rocky Mountains	Harold David Harrington	1968	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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