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Weeds |
Martin
With names like fleabane, cancerjalap, and stinging nettles, you know there’s something about these plants that people don’t like.
This identification guide to “plants out of place” uses 145 pages of full-color illustrations and descriptive text to identify principle weeds and weed groups of the United States. It asks what are weeds and examines their ability to adapt to the most diverse and adverse circumstances, looks at the harm weeds cause; their cost to farmers, as a source of respiratory ailments and their interference with waterways.
Yet there are benefits to be gotten from some; their value in soil conservation, as a source of medicine and drugs, and as nourishment for wildlife. Provides common and scientific names, identifying characteristics, and range. Index.
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