Take the High Country woods with you. These printable field cards come from The Holler Handbook, Volume 3: Medical Herbalism of the Appalachian Mountains, by Ashe County author Stephanie Woodie.

Every card has

• How to identify the plant
• Where to look in the Blue Ridge
• When to find it
• Traditional mountain uses
• A safety and look-alike caution
• Mountain lore and room for your own notes

38 native plants in 4 color-coded groups

Forest Floor: ginseng, goldenseal, black cohosh, bloodroot, wild ginger, blue cohosh, mayapple, Solomon’s seal, maidenhair fern, angelica. Meadow & Creek: yellowroot, boneset, skullcap, jewelweed, Joe-Pye weed, bee balm, mountain mint, pennyroyal, passionflower, nettle. Trees & Shrubs: sassafras, spicebush, wild cherry, slippery elm, red oak, witch hazel, white pine, elderberry, pokeweed, blackberry, greenbrier. Wild Edibles & Fruit: ramps, sochan, violet, wood sorrel, serviceberry, persimmon, wild blueberry.

Also included: The Ridge Runner’s Rules safety card, a High Country harvest calendar, and a blank field-notes card.

Format: PDF, 21 pages, two 5×7 cards per landscape Letter page with crop marks. Print on cardstock.

For education and heritage only, not medical advice. Never use a wild plant unless you are certain of its identity. This is a digital download; nothing will be shipped.