California Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Evergreen Huckleberries to Wild Ginger

Table of Contents:
Preface -- Introduction: Foraging in the Golden State -- Seasonal Gathering Guide for California -- Wild Edible Plants of California -- Angled onion -- Beavertail cactus -- Big leaf maple -- Black nightshade -- Bladderpod -- Blue camas -- Blue dicks -- Blue elderberry -- Blue flax -- Blue palo verde -- Blue wildrye -- Borage -- Bracken fern -- Bull clover -- Butterfly mariposa lily -- California bay laurel -- California blackberry -- California black oak -- California bottlebrush grass -- California brome -- California buttercup -- California hazelnut -- California juniper -- California oatgrass -- California oniongrass -- California wild grape -- California wild rose -- Candy flower -- Cattail -- Chalk buckwheat -- Chaparral yucca -- Checkerbloom -- Chickweed -- Chuparosa -- Common mallow -- Common tarweed -- Cow parsnip -- Coyote mint -- Creek monkeyflower -- Curly dock -- Desert ironwood -- Douglas fir -- Evergreen huckleberry -- Farewell to spring -- Fawn lily -- Fennel -- Foothills palo verde -- Giant blaring star -- Golden chia -- Golden currant -- Golden prettyface brodiaea -- Goldfields -- Gray pine -- Hairy bittercress -- Harvest brodiaea -- Himalayan blackberry -- Holly leaf cherry -- Honey mesquite -- Indian ricegrass -- Kellogg's yampa -- Lady fern -- Lambsquarters -- Lemonade berry -- Madrone -- Manzanita -- Meadow barley -- Meadowfoam -- Milkmaids -- Miner's lettuce -- Mormon tea -- Mountain mule's ears -- Mountain pennyroyal -- Mountain sorrel -- Narrowleaf mule's ears -- Nasturtium -- Nevada stickleaf -- Nootka rose -- Northern California black walnut -- Ocotillo -- Oregon grape -- Perennial pickleweed -- Point Reyes checkerbloom -- Prickly pear -- Purple sage -- Purslane -- Pussy ears -- Red huckleberry -- Red maids -- Redwood sorrel -- Redwood violet -- Salal -- Saltbush -- Sheep sorrel -- Sierra mint -- Silverweed -- Singleleaf pinyon pine -- Soaproot -- Sourberry -- Springbank clover -- Stinging nettle -- Sugar bush -- Sugar pine -- Swamp onion -- Tall coastal plantain -- Tanoak -- Thimbleberry -- Thistle sage -- Tidy tips -- Torrey pine -- Tree mallow -- Rule -- Valley oak -- Vetch -- Vine maple -- Wapato -- Watercress -- Western serviceberry -- Wild ginger -- Wild hyacinth -- Wild radish -- Woodland strawberry -- Wood rose -- Yellow pond lily -- Yerba buena -- Yerba santa -- Metric Conversions -- Resources -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Photography Credits -- Index.

Marc Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 326) and index.

Jacket Description/Back:
A passionate wild foods and native plants expert, Judith Larner Lowry tracks down local varieties and traditions. Along the way she shows you what to look for, when and where to look, and how to gather in a responsible way.

• An A to Z guide for foraging year-round
• Detailed information for safe identification
• Suggestions for sustainable harvesting and wild food gardens
• Tips on preparation and use

• Clear, color photographs
• Identification tips
• Guidance on how to ethically harvest
• Suggestions for eating and preserving

A handy seasonal planner details which plants are available during every season.

Contributor Bio:Lowry, Judith Larner

Judith Larner Lowry has been the proprietor of Larner Seeds, specializing in California native plants and seeds, for the last 35 years. Lowry designs and plants native plant gardens, gives talks, and contributes to Orion magazine, BayNature magazine, and numerous other journals. She lives with her husband in Bolinas, California.