Wild Roots: A Forager's Guide to the Edible and Medicinal Roots, Tubers, Corms, and Rhizomes of North America

Meyers misses the point. Wild Roots was never intended to be a field guide. Wild Roots is a celebration of useful and interesting wild roots. There are dozens of books that illustrate the upper parts of the plants. This book illustrates, with beautifully detailed drawings, the underground parts of 60 wild plants (and mentions a dozen or more that are not illustrated). The area of focus is eastern North America from southern Canada into the Deep South. It is strange that Meyers would say the book is useless outside of the Appalachians. Ten of the plants in the book are found all the way out to the west coast and practically all of them are found in Meyers' home state of New York. It's not a field guide; it is a celebration. It has been in print for more than 30 years and some consider it a classic.