A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants: Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guide Series, 40) - Hardcover

Foster, Steven; Duke, James A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395353092 ISBN 13: 9780395353097

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T), 1990

Synopsis

The first comprehensive pocket-size guide to medicinal plants shows how to identify 500 of these plants.

About this title

About the Author:

Steven Foster has written numerous books and magazine articles on the medicinal use of herbs. He is the coauthor of the Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America.

From School Library Journal:

YA-- A comprehensive guide to understanding the medicinal value of plants, trees, and shrubs. The book includes a well-planned index, attractive plates and illustrations, cross-references, and interpretative symbols regarding the plants' uses. The text is well researched. Each entry gives the common and scientific name, a short description of the plant, its general location, and its utility in the field of medicine. A book for anyone interested in the outdoors and/or who has an affinity with nature, and for students who are doing research on plant life. --Jeanette M. Lippencott, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T)
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0395353092
• ISBN 13: 9780395353097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384