Identify wild berries and fruits in eastern North America with this pocket-size guide.
If you're fascinated by native plants or the practice of foraging, then learning to identify berries and fruits is essential. While this is not a guide to edible plants, Berry Finder by Dorcas S. Miller is a great tool for getting started with plant identification. This handy, easy-to-use booklet can help you identify native plants with fleshy fruit in the eastern half of North America.
The booklet provides a dichotomous key to identifying ripe berries and berry-like fruits. Simply answer a series of simple questions about the plant type, leaf pattern, leaf margin, and fruit color. Along the way, professional illustrations by Cherie Hunter Day help to guide you to a positive identification.
Book Features:
- Step-by-step guide to identifying wild berries and fruits
- More than 180 species of plants, shrubs, and trees
- Professional line illustrations with key markings for identification
- Small format that fits into a pocket or pack
This guide is applicable to eastern Canada and the US states of Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and parts of Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Species List
- Herbs
- Wild Calla
- Lily of the Valley
- Trillium
- Clintonia
- Indian Cucumber-Root
- Bunchberry
- Green Dragon
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit
- Wild Strawberry
- Blue Cohosh
- Ginseng
- Feverwort or Wild Coffee
- Asparagus
- Twisted Stalk
- Fairybells
- False Solomon's Seal
- Three-leaved or Star-flowered Solomon's Seal
- Blackberry
- Lily
- Pokeweed
- Tiger Lily
- Ground Cherry
- Black Nightshade
- Horse Nettle
- Cloud Berry
- Goldenseal
- Strawberry Blight
- Indian Strawberry
- Baneberry
- American Spikenard
- Cabbage Palmetto
- American Yew
- Crowberry
- Red Cedar
- Dwarf Juniper
- Tailing Juniper
- Vines and Creeping Shrubs
- Partridgeberry
- Climbing Honeysuckle
- Carrion Flower
- Greenbrier
- Supplejack
- Bittersweet
- Redberry Moonseed
- Matrimony Vine
- Snowberry Wintergreen
- Cranberry
- Bearberry
- American Ampelopsis
- Redberry Wintergreen
- Sand Cherry
- English Ivy
- Grape
- Bitter Nightshade
- Canada Moonseed or Cupseed
- Virginia Creeper
- Peppervine
- Shrubs and Small Trees
- Fly Honeysuckle
- Dogwood
- Mistletoe
- Snowberry or Wolfberry
- Fringe-Tree
- Coralberry
- Privet
- Buffaloberry
- Flowering Dogwood
- Common Buckthorn
- Forestiera
- Beautyberry
- Sheep Laurel
- Cranberry Viburnum
- Southern Arrowwood
- Northern Wild-Raisin
- Hobblebush
- Waxmyrtle or Bayberry
- Silverberry
- Elderberry
- Japanese Barberry
- Common Spicebush
- Daphne
- Mountain Holly
- Leatherwood
- Bumelia
- Alternate-Leaved Dogwood
- Blueberry
- Huckleberry
- Farkleberry
- Deerberry
- Bilberry
- Inkberry or Gallberry
- Holly
- Wild Plum
- Cherry
- Buckthorn
- Juneberry Shad Serviceberry
- Chokeberry
- American Barberry
- Firethorn
- Flowering Raspberry
- Thimbleberry
- Currant
- Hawthorne
- Gooseberry
- Bristly Black Currant
- Devil's Club
- Poison Ivy
- Poison Oak
- Poison Sumac
- Red Raspberry
- Rose
- Sumac
- Dewberry
- Blackberry
- Mountain Ash
- Bristly Sarsaparilla
- Hercules Club
- Trees
- Devilwood
- Persimmon
- Redbay
- Tupelo or Sour Gum
- Sassafras
- American Holly
- Red or White Mulberry
- Hackberry
- Chinaberry
- Soapberry