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The Winter Garden: Planning and Planting for the Southeast
The Winter Garden Planning and Planting for the Southeast Author:Peter Loewer, Larry Mellichamp, H. Peter Loewer A fully illustrated, full color guide to using some 80 wild medicinal plants found in North America. Includes descriptions and photographs of each plant species as well as information on where to find and how to use them. Matches a variety of illnesses with the plants that treat them, discusses how medicinal plants work and how and what part... more »s of the plants should be gathered, and describes and illustrates toxic wild plants to avoid. Includes information for: Hawthorn, Adam's Flannel, Yarrow, Cinquefoil, Shepherd's Purse, Pussywillow, St. John's Wort, Huckleberry, Black Cherry, Bladderwrack, Watercress, Tansy, Barberry, Horseradish, Great Burdock, Curled Dock, Mallow, Stinging Nettle, Black Elder, Elecampane and 60 others. Includes scientific and common names for each plant.« less