Ready Hour Edible Wild Foods Playing Cards

This deck from Ready Hour features 48 different edible plants found in the North American wilderness. The Ready Hour Edible Wild Foods Playing Cards deck is full of valuable, survival information. Sometimes, you have to forage off the land for food!

Each edible plant is shown in a full-color photograph for easy identification. A map identifies the geographic areas where the plant grows in the wild. The card face explains warnings, characteristics, uses, plant parts, aliases and special cooking hints. For example, the stems, leaves, flowers, and hips of roses can be eaten raw, sautéed or steamed.

Each Ready Hour Edible Wild Foods card deck comes with a key chain to keep the cards handy during hikes and camping trips. This deck is ideal for hikers, campers, scouts, survival experts, gourmet cooks and parents wanting to teach their children about the abundance of wild food around them. These Ready Hour Wild Foods Playing Cards have traditional suit marks and can be used for many fun card games or poker.

The cards measure 3.5 x 2.5 inches, same as a standard playing card. 

Some of North American plants and trees noted on the playing cards include:
Amaranth
Aspen
Balsamroot
Birch
Broadleaf Plantain
Bull Thistle
Burdock
Cattail
Chamomile
Chickweed
Chicory
Cleavers
Clover
Common Mallow
Curly Dock
Dandelion
Day Lilly
Evening Primrose
Fireweed
Fir
Goldenrod
Henbit
Lambsquarters
Maple
Milkweed
Miners Lettuce
Mint
Mullein
Nodding Onion
Ox-Eye Daisy
Pineapple Weed
Prickly Pear
Purslane
Salsify
Sego Lilly
Shepherd's Purse
Softstem Bulrush
Spring Beauty
Stinging Nettle
Thyme
Trout Lilly
Wild Lettuce
Wild Mustard
Wild Rose
Wild Strawberry
Willow
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