Common Edible and Useful Plants of the West by Muiel Sweet

Description: If you want to know how the Indians, the Pioneers and the early Spanish-Americans used many of the common wild plants of the West for food, for building shelters or making artifacts, and as tonics or in other ways to help bring back or preserve health, this book is for you. Written in easy-to-understand language and with pictures of almost all the plants described, it details bits of extremely interesting and often almost forgotten lore of the old west in regard to the wild plants, Furthermore, if you are a Scout on a survival hike or are ever lost in the wilderness without civilized food, the knowledge in this book may be absolutely vital to you. The plants in the chief sections of this book are arranged in five categories for aid in easy identification: water plants and ferns and their allies, trees, shrubs, herbs and vines. Besides this the book helps you identify plants by color of flowers, arranged in categories; the color of the fruits, nuts or seeds; by habitat or living places of plants and by geographical regions

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Location: San Diego, California

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