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is the book for
you
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Natural
history, folklore, historic and modern uses of
plants, name origins, horticulture, literature,
and even a bit of humor.
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74
chapters covering hundreds of North American
wildflowers, both natives and aliens.
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More
than 90 color photographs illustrating
interesting and popular wildflowers.
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Huge
bibliography with comments on each book and tips
on how to find out-of-print titles.
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Guide
to World Wide Web sites on wildflowers.
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Extensive
index.
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320
pages, hardbound, first published April 2003 by
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe-Pequot.
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Jack Sanders’s colorful tribute to
wildflowers is bursting with odd facts, ingenious
uses, and bizarre superstition about some of North
America’s most beautiful and common plants. There
are more than 10,000 varieties of wildflowers in
North America, some rare, some incredibly
plentiful. Each has a unique story.
There’s Bouncing Bet, a perennial common
along roads and railroad tracks,. It’s a
beautiful plant, but also a useful one. Its sap
makes a fine soap. Colonial beer makers used to
put a dab in to help the head on a brew. Doctors
used it to wash wounds.
Or Coltsfoot, which pops up almost alone in
winters, and was used in New England as a cure
for coughs. Asthmatics used to smoke it for
relief. For many. years, apothecaries in France
used Coltsfoot as a symbol, a surprising
pedigree; for a neglected “weed.”
More a companion than a field guide, The
Secrets of Wildflowers is must-have for
anyone who enjoys a walk in a meadow or a gaze
outside. --from the publisher
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Jack
Sanders is a former editor for Wildflower magazine
and has written about wildflowers for The New York
Times. The retired editor of The
Ridgefield Press, he lives with his wife,
Sally, in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
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