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Peterson field guide to medicinal plants and herbs of eastern and central North America

Title
Peterson field guide to medicinal plants and herbs of eastern and central North America / Steven Foster and James A. Duke ; photographs by Steven Foster.
Author
Foster, Steven, 1957-
Publication
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

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Additional Authors
Duke, James A., 1929-2017.
Description
xviii, 456 pages : color illustrations; 19 cm.
Summary
A reference to the medicinal plants and herbs of Eastern and Central North American includes specific remedies for asthma, headaches, colds, stomachaches, depression, and many other common ailments.
Series Statement
Peterson field guides
Uniform Title
  • Field guide to medicinal plants
  • Peterson field guide series.
Alternative Title
  • Field guide to medicinal plants
  • Field guide to medicinal plants and herbs of eastern and central North America
  • Medicinal plants and herbs of eastern and central North America
Subject
  • Medicinal plants > East (U.S.) > Identification
  • Medicinal plants > Middle West > Identification
  • Medicinal plants > Canada, Eastern > Identification
  • Plants, Medicinal
  • Phytotherapy
  • Medicinal plants
  • Canada
  • United States
  • Eastern Canada
  • Middle West
  • East United States
Genre/Form
  • Atlas.
  • Handbook.
  • Guidebooks.
Note
  • "Sponsored by the National Audubon Society, the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, and the National Wildlife Federation."
  • Revision of: Field guide to medicinal plants. 1990.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-425) and indexes.
Contents
How to use this book -- White or whitish flowers -- Yellow flowers -- Orange flowers -- Pink to red flowers -- Violet to blue flowers -- Green flowers -- Shrubs -- Trees -- Woody vines -- Ferns -- Grasses and grasslike plants.
ISBN
  • 9780547943985
  • 0547943989
LCCN
  • 2014434401
  • 99963097634
OCLC
  • ocn854944777
  • 854944777
  • SCSB-5802134
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries