If you want to know how the Indians, pioneers, and early Spanish-Americans used many of the common wild plants for food, building shelters, or making artifacts, this book has the answers. Remedies are included.
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Not A Good Primary Choice,
This review is from: Common Edible and Useful Plants of the West (Outdoor and Nature) (Paperback)
This small book contains 105 species and weighs 3.6 ounces on my scale and is 8.5"x5.5"-important for backpackers. I bought it because of its low price, light weight for backpacking, and as a second source to my "Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West" by Tilford which is excellent. Unlike the Tilford guide, the plants in this book are categorized according to trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, and water plants as all plant guides should be for easier look up. The sketches are only average which is a big problem with an identification book. Photographs are far superior to even the best drawings, but photographic paper is much heavier. The descriptions and common uses of the plants are also sketchy, but like the author says the book contains only the most important and common edible plants of the West. So I would not recommend the book for the beginner and only maybe for the more experienced forager for reminders on plant uses while out hiking because of the book's light weight.
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It is my hope that this small volume may prove to be of use to many who are interested in a short history, in nontechnical language, of some western plants, and of their uses by the Indians and others as food as well as medicine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coastal coniferous forest, streamside woodland, montane coniferous forest, sagebrush scrub, oak woodland, desert scrub Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sunflower Family, Rose Family, Carrot Family, Pea Family, New Mexico, Mustard Family, Pine Family New!
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It is my hope that this small volume may prove to be of use to many who are interested in a short history, in nontechnical language, of some western plants, and of their uses by the Indians and others as food as well as medicine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coastal coniferous forest, streamside woodland, montane coniferous forest, sagebrush scrub, oak woodland, desert scrub Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sunflower Family, Rose Family, Carrot Family, Pea Family, New Mexico, Mustard Family, Pine Family New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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