Charlotte Erichsen-Brown

Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants

A Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chronological historical citations document 500 years of usage of plants, trees, and shrubs native to eastern Canada and northeastern United States. Also complete identifying information, 343 illustrations. " . . . you can't go wrong." -- "Botanic & Herb Reviews."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780486259512
• ISBN-10: 048625951X
• Artikelnr.: 22438864

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Erichsen-Brown

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Evergreen Trees -including the larch which drops its needles Deciduous trees -including shrubby willows Shrubs and Vines -including cherry and hawthorn trees Wet Open Places -seasonally wet meadows
lake and stream banks
swamps and acid bogs or all moist open places. This section starts with plants that float in the water
moves to those that like water on their roots and then to those at water's edge. Also found in wet open places but discussed under other section are St. John's wort
raspberries
cleavers
violets
may apples
pepper grass
goldenrods and stinging nettles Woods and Thickets -all kinds of wooded areas
ranging from climax forests
through open woods
to the edges of woods and including generally areas where plants are shaded by higher trees or shrubs and coniferous swamps. Also found in woods and thickets but discussed under other sections are jack in the pulpit
wood nettle
jewel weed
wild lettuce
columbine
cinquefoils
Indian hemp
chenopods
certain goldenrods
blackberries and raspberries Dry Open Places -fields
fence rows
sides of roads
recently burnt-over land
pockets of soil in crevices in open rock and generally areas that are unshaded and dry in summer conditions. Also found in dry open places but discussed in other sections are some of the St. John' worts
asters
rattlesnake plantains
seneca snakeroot
racemed milkwort
golden and pale corydalis Glossary Sources Cited General Index Botanical Index