_Jimmy Fike’s photographic depictions of edible botanicals have a ghostly, poetic quality. Aesthetically, the work conjures nineteenth-century scientific illustrations, Gothic wallpaper, and the dead flowers you might find pressed between the pages of an old book. But his art is also practical: The Alabama-born, Arizona-based photographer and botany buff uses color to highlight which parts of the plant are actually safe to eat. His decade-long project—memorialized in book form with Edible Plants: A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America (Indiana University Press, 2022)—is thus both a working tool for aspiring foragers and an arresting archive of ephemeral beauty. “Functionally, the images direct viewers to free food,” Fike writes, “but upon deeper engagement begin to illustrate our symbiotic relationship to botanical life, offering a reorientation to the natural world, a renewed sense of connection, community, and wonder.” His catalog includes one hundred and seventy species and counting, the product of diligent field work in sixteen states. We’re excited to share a few previously unpublished specimens—like fireweed, which pops up around meadows, streams, and roadsides across much of the continent, including North Carolina and Tennessee. Fike accents the otherwise monochrome rendering with a rich green for the narrow leaves and a vivid pink for the spikes of flowers that top the stalks. The resulting image is a feat of texture and atmosphere.