We include a number of widely used foraging and wildflower books for the state. Inclusion of a book does not signal an endorsement of everything it states, but we believe these are a safe and helpful starting place. Please use your best judgement when harvesting and eating wild plants. Consider visiting your local library for books for your region.
Alaska's Wild Berries and Berry-like Fruit by Verna Pratt. 1995. [Booklet]
Alaska's Wild Plants: A Guide to Alaska's Edible and Healthful Harvest by Janice Schofield. 1993. 2nd edition 2020.
Discovering Wild Plants: Alaska, Western Canada, the Northwest. by Janice Schofield. 1989.
Field Guide to Alaskan Wildflowers: Commonly Seen Along Highways and Byways by Verna Pratt. 1989.
Wild, Edible and Poisonous Plants of Alaska by Christine Heller. 1966. [UAF cooperative extension booklet]
Plants That We Eat: Nauriat Nigiñaqtuat: From the Traditional Wisdom of the Iñupiat Elders of Northwest Alaska by Anore Jones. 1983.
Wildflowers of Denali National Park by Verna E. Pratt and Frank G. Pratt. 1993.
Tanaina Plantlore, Dena'ina K'et'una: An Ethnobotany of the Dena'ina Indians of Southcentral Alaska by Priscilla Russell Kari. 1995.
Surviving on the Foods and Water from Alaska's Southern Shores by Dolly Garza. 2013.
Wild, Edible & Medicinal Plants: Alaska, Canada & Pacific Northwest Rainforest: An Introductory Pocket Trail Guide by Carol R. Biggs. 1999.
Naut'staarpet--Our Plants: A Kodiak Alutiiq Plantlore by Priscilla N. Russell. 2017.
Traditional Sugpiaq Medicinal Plants by Kathy Brewster. 2011.
Wildflowers and Other Plant Life of the Kodiak Archipelago by Stacy Studebaker. 2010.
Wildflowers of Unalaska Island: A Guide to the Flowering Plants of an Aleutian Island by Suzi Golodoff. 2003.
Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/All the Land's Surface is Medicine: Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska by Ann Fienup-Riordan, Alice Rearden, Marie Meade, and Kevin Jernigan. 2020.