Learn About Herbs

Learn to identify and use wild medicinal herbs and edible plants that grow all around us.


Medicinal, Edible and Useful Plant PDFs Online

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 USEFUL WILD PLANTS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

Handbook of Medicinal Herbs
By the beloved late herbalist James Duke. Almost 900 pages of herbal information!

My Wild Medicinal Plants Slides on PDF Feel free to print and keep!

Edible Wild Plants Native to NorthEast US and Eastern Canada

A Guide to Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated, Scientific and Medicinal Approach

WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants

A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie (Public Domain) 

Survey of Medicinal Herbs of Central Illinois Prairie and Woodlands PDF

Native Plants and Communities of East Central Illinois

Medicinal Herbs of Central Illinois ( And Nearby States)

Medicinal Plants of the Bible

Identification of Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac, and Poisonwood

Field Guide to Common Wetland Plants of West Virginia

HERBAL Manual The Medicinal, Toilet, Culinary and other Uses of 130 of the most Commonly Used Herbs

Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

Medicinal Uses for Herbal Teas

Natural Remedies for Common Health Conditions

Vegetables, Fruits& Herbs Bookgarden USU .edu A Guide to Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs
This book is a compilation of 58 researched-based fact sheets written and compiled by Utah State University faculty and students.

 Plant Identification Basics

Field Guide to Edible Plants I think these are Asian Natives.

Field Guide for the Identification and Use of Common Riparian Woody Plants of the Intermountain West and Pacific Northwest Regions