Common Edible Useful Plants of the West (Outdoor and Nature)

Type

Book

Authors

Muriel Sweet

ISBN 10

0879610468

ISBN 13

9780879610463

Tags

Plants, Reference, New, Used & Rental Textbooks

Description

How the Indians, pioneers, and the early Spanish-Americans used many of the common wild plants for food, and medicinal uses, also including making shelters or making artifacts. This book has the answers Young Bracken fern shoots substitute for asparagus, clover for tea. Try a decoction made from mugwort next time you get poison oak. Plants are listed in categories such as water plants, shrubs, herbs, trees, vines with an illustration to help in identification. Warning is given to avoid poisonous plants. - from Amzon

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