Author: Steven Foster
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395988145
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
At a time when interest in herbs and natural medicine has never been higher, the second edition of this essential guide shows how to identify more than 500 healing plants. 300+ color photos.
A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America
Author: Steven Foster
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395988145
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
At a time when interest in herbs and natural medicine has never been higher, the second edition of this essential guide shows how to identify more than 500 healing plants. 300+ color photos.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395988145
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
At a time when interest in herbs and natural medicine has never been higher, the second edition of this essential guide shows how to identify more than 500 healing plants. 300+ color photos.
A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America
Author: Lee Peterson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395926222
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
More than 370 edible wild plants, plus 37 poisonous lookalikes, are described here, with 400 drawings and 78 color photographs showing precisely how to recognize each species. Also included are habitat descriptions, lists of plants by season, and preparation instructions for 22 different food uses.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395926222
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
More than 370 edible wild plants, plus 37 poisonous lookalikes, are described here, with 400 drawings and 78 color photographs showing precisely how to recognize each species. Also included are habitat descriptions, lists of plants by season, and preparation instructions for 22 different food uses.
Medicinal Plants of North America
Author: Jim Meuninck
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493077872
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This exquisitely detailed, full-color field guide provides the identification details and practical information needed to find and properly use many of the medicinal plants and wild plant foods that provide chemicals necessary for optimum health and disease prevention. The book takes the user from simple and familiar plants ones that are less common and more difficult to identify. Each of the 122 plant entries includes a color photograph, plant description, and location. Plants are grouped according to how common or rare they are, as well as to where they are found: prairies, woodlands, mountains, deserts, and wetlands. Relevant facts about each plant include toxicity, historical uses, modern uses, as well as wildlife/veterinary uses. Additional information featured in this extraordinary field guide: explanations of how each plant affects the human body; cultural and ethnic uses of medicinal herbs and cooking spices; others creatures who consume the plants; a list of most recommended garden herbs; web site resources, and much more.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493077872
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This exquisitely detailed, full-color field guide provides the identification details and practical information needed to find and properly use many of the medicinal plants and wild plant foods that provide chemicals necessary for optimum health and disease prevention. The book takes the user from simple and familiar plants ones that are less common and more difficult to identify. Each of the 122 plant entries includes a color photograph, plant description, and location. Plants are grouped according to how common or rare they are, as well as to where they are found: prairies, woodlands, mountains, deserts, and wetlands. Relevant facts about each plant include toxicity, historical uses, modern uses, as well as wildlife/veterinary uses. Additional information featured in this extraordinary field guide: explanations of how each plant affects the human body; cultural and ethnic uses of medicinal herbs and cooking spices; others creatures who consume the plants; a list of most recommended garden herbs; web site resources, and much more.
Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants
Author: Bradford Angier
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811742806
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
First-ever revision of a classic guidebook. Information on each plant's characteristics, distribution, and medicinal qualities as well as updated taxonomy and 15 new species. How to identify and use wild plants for medicinal purposes.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811742806
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
First-ever revision of a classic guidebook. Information on each plant's characteristics, distribution, and medicinal qualities as well as updated taxonomy and 15 new species. How to identify and use wild plants for medicinal purposes.
Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants
Author: Charlotte Erichsen-Brown
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048625951X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Chronological historical citations document 500 years of usage of plants, trees, and shrubs native to eastern Canada, northeastern U.S. Also complete identifying information. 343 illustrations. "...this is the best Dover reprint relative to medicinal plants in fifteen years...you can't go wrong." — Botanic & Herb Reviews.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048625951X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Chronological historical citations document 500 years of usage of plants, trees, and shrubs native to eastern Canada, northeastern U.S. Also complete identifying information. 343 illustrations. "...this is the best Dover reprint relative to medicinal plants in fifteen years...you can't go wrong." — Botanic & Herb Reviews.
A Field Guide to Eastern Forests, North America
Author: John C. Kricher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395928950
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Provides an introduction to patterns of forest ecology, looks at each of the major forest types of eastern North America, examines changes that occur as abandoned fields turn into forests, features background on the process of adaptation and natural selection, and describes forest changes in each of the four seasons.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395928950
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Provides an introduction to patterns of forest ecology, looks at each of the major forest types of eastern North America, examines changes that occur as abandoned fields turn into forests, features background on the process of adaptation and natural selection, and describes forest changes in each of the four seasons.
A Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants, North America, North of Mexico
Author: Steven Foster
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395936085
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Describes dangerous mammals, reptiles, spiders, insects, flowers, shrubs, trees, and mushrooms.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395936085
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Describes dangerous mammals, reptiles, spiders, insects, flowers, shrubs, trees, and mushrooms.
Edible Wild Plants
Author: Thomas S. Elias
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402767159
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Presents a season-by-season guide to the identification, harvest, and preparation of more than two hundred common edible plants to be found in the wild.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402767159
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Presents a season-by-season guide to the identification, harvest, and preparation of more than two hundred common edible plants to be found in the wild.
A Field Guide to Wildflowers
Author: Roger Tory Peterson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395911723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This book is a guide to the wildflowers in the Northcentral and Eastern regions of the United States.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395911723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This book is a guide to the wildflowers in the Northcentral and Eastern regions of the United States.
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America
Author: Roger Tory Peterson
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328771431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A new edition of the classic, best-selling field guide from Peterson Field Guides For decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birdsof Eastern and Central North America has been a popular and trusted guide for birders of all levels, thanks to its famous system of identification and unparalleled illustrations. Following the Spring 2020 update to Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, this guide will feature updated text and range maps, and art updated to reflect current knowledge in ornithology.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328771431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A new edition of the classic, best-selling field guide from Peterson Field Guides For decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birdsof Eastern and Central North America has been a popular and trusted guide for birders of all levels, thanks to its famous system of identification and unparalleled illustrations. Following the Spring 2020 update to Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, this guide will feature updated text and range maps, and art updated to reflect current knowledge in ornithology.