Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada

Author: Andrew MacKinnon
Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing
ISBN: 9781551055725
Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Canada is home to a vast diversity of plants that have helped nourish and heal our people for thousands of years. Find out about: * First Nations uses of plant species * Gathering and preparing wild plants for a variety of uses * Historic European uses of plant species * Plants for everything from clothing to shelter * The fundamentals of survival - food and medicines * Clear descriptions of the plants and where to find them * Warnings about plant allergies, poisons and digestive upsets * A special section identifying poisonous plants and species that are similar * More than 530 colour photographs and 125 illustrations.

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.

Useful Wild Plants of the United States and Canada

Author: Charles Francis Saunders
Publisher: New York : R.M. McBride
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description

Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie

Author: Kelly Kindscher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
Provides information on identification and uses of edible prairie plants.

Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants Alaska, Canada and Pacific Northwest Rainforest

Author: Carol R. Biggs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966919202
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
"These beautifully photographed, full-color, pocket-size field guides are the perfect companion for hikers, trail bikers, campers, and anyone else who enjoys getting out and seeing what nature has to offer. All the plants pictured and described in the two volumes, with three or four exceptions, range throughout the temperate rainforest of North America."

Plants of the Rocky Mountains

Author: Linda Kershaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781772130294
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This outstanding field guide features 1,362 plants. Highlights of each account include edible plants, native uses of plants, habitat and ecology, similar species and origin of the plant's name. The book also includes a wildflower photo chart, over 900 color photographs, and more than 700 line drawings.

Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies

Author: Linda Kershaw
Publisher: Publishing Partners
ISBN: 9781772130188
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Throughout human history, plants have provided us with food, clothing, medicine and shelter. The Rocky Mountains are home to a diversity of plant species that have helped native peoples and settlers survive through the centuries. EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE ROCKIES describes 333 common trees, shrubs, flowers, ferns, mosses and lichens that have been used by people from ancient times to the present. This comprehensive guide contains: * More than 700 color photographs and illustrations * An introduction explaining the use of wild plants, including gathering, preparing and cooking * Food, medicinal and other uses for each species * Clear descriptions of the plants and where to find them * Warnings about plant allergies, poisons and digestive upsets * A special section at the end detailing 46 of the more common poisonous plants in the Rockies region.

Edible and Medicinal Plans of the Northwest

Author: J. Duane Sept
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780973981988
Category : Medicinal plants
Languages : en
Pages :

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Edible & Medicinal Plants of Canada

Author: Andrew MacKinnon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicinal plants
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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.