Poisonous Plants Of California

00 This highly informative volume describes California's native, naturalized, and cultivated plant species which can be poisonous and describes how to recognize them, where they are found, and what symptoms they produce. This highly informative volume describes California's native, naturalized, and cultivated plant species which can be poisonous and describes how to recognize them, where they are found, and what symptoms they produce.

This book is filled with fascinating facts, recipes and stories about common plants found growing wild in northern California. Every vacant lot, park, open space and empty field contains some of the characters in this book.Get ready to meet a variety of common weeds with uncommon stories. There will be sinister plants with deadly reputations, and friendly vegetables disguised as weeds. Over fifty detailed drawings will help you to recognize some of the plant personalities. And this is important, because after reading you will want to get off that couch and meet these plants.These weeds grow all around, from Sacramento to San Francisco, Monterey to San Jose. we are surrounded by a silent plant community. Learn what it has to say to you between the covers of this book.

A Materia Medica for the wild plants of the area. full color collage photos for each of 100 plants. Detailed information for each plant in each body system, preparation information when available, notes about survival and magical uses, Entymology of scientific name. Tabbed color thumb indexes for part of body affected, medical actions, time of bloom and flower color. Organized by Scientific name with English and Spanish common names. Chapters on History of Herbalism, Healing and How Plants Work, Comparative Energy Systems, Plant Chemistry, Placebo and Nocebo effects. Illustration of Plant Anatomy, Scientific Terminology, Glossary, Name Index. A serious reference book of California flora for herbalists and emergency survival. 286 Pages on quality paper.

Knowledge of poisonous plants in the United States and Canada; Poisonous principles in plants; Algae; Fungi; Freshwates algae; Marine algae; Molds, molds, smuts, and rusts; Ergot; Lichens; Mushrooms or toadstools; Ferns; Horsetails; Gymnosperms; Angiosperms; Dicots; Monocots; Grass tetany (phytogenic hypomagnesemia).

An A-Z guide to poisonous plants in the Southwest and northwest Mexico features an illustration of each plant, accompanied by a description and information on distribution, toxic parts, what poisons they contain, symptoms of poisoning, and more.

Discusses about thirty poisonous plants, their toxic effects on humans and animals, and how they can be used beneficially.