A poem compiled from the words of Lee Allen Peterson, A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants.
Words that formed my young mind, words for the best places, the places where wild things are.
Woods, thickets, streambanks
ponds, quiet water, still water
running water, springs, brooks
gravelly streambeds
wet meadows, wet woods, swamps, low, wet ground, ditches
wet shady places
riverbanks
cool, moist, deciduous or evergreen woods
rich, moist woods, mossy woods
ravines
rocky woods, openings, clearings
rich rocky woods
dry sandy woods, roadsides, old fields, dunes
dry woods, prairies
shores, cliffs
barnyards, cultivated fields, fencerows, pastures
rich distrurbed soil
escaped from gardens
lawns
waste places
railroad banks, borders of fields
bogs, tundra, peaty soil, wet or dry acid soils, barrens
moist, sandy soil
rich sandy soil
pine barrens
wet, sandy shores, saltmarshes
edges of salt marshes
cool woods, open slopes
newly cleared woods, fire desolated areas, burned areas
young woods
mud
shallow, fresh, or brackish water
dry, open sunny places
rocks, low-tide mark, low-water mark and below
submerged ledges, washed ashore, piers
rocks exposed to wave action.
Stay tuned for the next edition: Warnings.
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