Describes the different kinds of roots and stems flowers may have and their importance in helping flowers to grow.

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing...

Simple text and photographs present the roots of plants, how they grow, and their uses.

Simple step-by-step text and photographs for seven plant experiments. Includes a materials list.

A botanical description of edible plants in the Rocky Mountain region, with ethnobotanical information about their historical uses and with recipes for cooking and the making of dyes.

Learning to identify unwanted plants around the home, farm or ranch will be much easier with this book published by the Western Society of Weed Science and co-sponsored by the Cooperative Extension of the United States. Weeds of the West will help you identify weeds that compete with native plants, horticultural and agricultural crops, as well as those that can poison livestock and people.

Contains profiles and photographs of over 550 medicinal plants, discussing their cultivation, therapeutic properties, and uses; provides guidelines for growing, harvesting, and storing medicinal plants; describes the healing traditions of various world cultures; and includes recipes for herbal preparations and self-treatment.

Notes on the habitats, biological classification, and identifying characteristics of more than one hundred ferns, trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs accompany instructions on their preparation and uses.