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Edible and Useful Plants of the Southwest : Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona /

All around us there are wild plants useful for food, medicine, and clothing, but most of us don?t know how to identify or use them. Delena Tull amply supplies that knowledge in this book, which she has now expanded to more thoroughly address plants found in New Mexico and Arizona, as well as Texas....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tull, Delena (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: 3M Company
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : University of Texas Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Plates; List of Illustrations; Preface to the Revised Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; What's in This Book?; Vegetation Regions; Why Use Botanical Terminology?; 1. Edible and Useful Wild Plants of the Southwest; Cautions and Notes on Using Wild Edibles; Why Bother with Wild Foods?; Native Plants for Agriculture; Grazing from the Wild: Tips and Precautions; Edible and Useful Wild Plants By Family, Including Recipes; Alismataceae-Water-plantain Family; Arrowhead-Sagittaria Species; Amaranthaceae-Amaranth Family; Amaranth-Amaranthus Species.
  • Lamb's-quarters-Chenopodium SpeciesOrach, Four-wing Saltbush-Atriplex Species; Tumbleweed-Salsola Species; Amaryllidaceae-Amaryllis Family; Onion, Garlic, Chives-Allium Species; Anacardiaceae-Sumac Family; Sumac-Rhus Species; Asparagaceae-Asparagus Family; Agave, Mescal, Lechuguilla-Agave Species; Beargrass-Nolina Species; Blue Camass-Camassia scilloides; Sotol-Dasylirion Species; Yucca-Yucca Species; Asteraceae-Composite Family, Sunflower Family; Chicory-Cichorium intybus; Dandelion-Taraxacum officinale; Goldenrod-Solidago odora; Lettuce-Lactuca Species; Ragweed-Ambrosia trifida.
  • Sow Thistle-Sonchus SpeciesSunflower-Helianthus Species; Maximilian Sunflower-Helianthus maximiliani; Thistle-Cirsium Species; Bixaceae-Lipsticktree Family; Yellow Show, Saiya-Amoreuxia Species; Boraginaceae-Borage Family; Sandfood-Pholisma Species; Cactaceae-Cactus Family; Cholla-Cylindropuntia Species; Tasajillo-Cylindropuntia leptocaulis; Prickly Pear-Opuntia Species; Saguaro Cactus-Carnegiea gigantea; Strawberry Cactus-Echinocereus stramineus, Echinocereus enneacanthus; Caryophyllaceae-Pink Family; Chickweed-Stellaria media; Cleomaceae-Cleome Family; Bee Plant-Cleome species.
  • Clammyweed-Polanisia dodecandraCommelinaceae-Spiderwort Family; Dayflower-Commelina Species; Spiderwort-Tradescantia Species; Crassulaceae-Orpine Family, ; Sedum, Stonecrop-Sedum Species; Cucurbitaceae-Gourd Family; Buffalo Gourd-Cucurbita foetidissima; Cyperaceae-Sedge Family; Nut-grass-Cyperus Species; Euphorbiaceae-Spurge Family; Bull Nettle-Cnidoscolus texanus; Cassava-Manihot Species; Noseburn-Tragia Species; Fabaceae-Legume Family; Acacia, Huisache, Catclaw-Acacia Species; Alfalfa-Medicago sativa; Black Locust-Robinia pseudoacacia; Desert Ironwood-Olneya tesota; Groundnut-Apios americana.
  • Hog Peanut-Amphicarpaea bracteataHoney Locust-Gleditsia triacanthos; Indian Breadroot, Scurf Pea-Pediomelum Species; Kudzu-Pueraria Species; Mesquite, Tornillo-Prosopis Species; Redbud-Cercis canadensis; Retama-Parkinsonia aculeata; Tepary Bean-Phaseolus acutifolius; Fagaceae-Beech Family; Oak-Quercus Species; Fouquieriaceae-Ocotillo Family; Ocotillo-Fouquieria splendens; Juglandaceae-Walnut Family; Hickory-Carya Species; Pecan-Carya illinoinensis; Walnut-Juglans Species; Lamiaceae-Mint Family; Henbit-Lamium amplexicaule; Liliaceae-Lily Family; Lily-Lilium Species.