Reddit reviews Weeds of the Northeast

I'd honestly start with a non-magical book first. A regular old guidebook to the local weeds in your area. This is the one I have used for years, specific to my locale. You're just starting out, you might as well start out with things in abundance you can collect ritually, yourself, since it will be imbued with more intention, and most of this stuff is a good half (or more) based in intention (just don't ingest anything you're not sure of, I've been working with wild plants for 30+ years and even I am not always sure).


Practically every single place is going to have their own local plants with magical and/or healing properties that are equivalent to what you will find in a formal book aimed at practitioners of witchcraft. Pair it with something like the Master Book of Herbs, and just kind of ignore the stuff that is not local to you or easily obtained for now. You can always grow your library later. You can always grow your knowledge of "all appropriate herbs, even ones hard to come by" later. Methodology first.

As others have said, that’s definitely not knotweed. I bought this book as a new homeowner and it has been an invaluable resource: Weeds of the Northeast https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801483344/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_1FEiDbCDH6Q2Q