Wicked Plants
The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities
By Amy Stewart; Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illustrator); Jonathan Rosen (Illustrator)
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Hardcover, 9781565126831, 235pp.)
Publication Date: May 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Compact Disc, Compact Disc, MP3 CD, Paperback
Categories: Plants - General
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the June 2009 Indie Notables“Master gardener and historian Amy Stewart sheds sunlight on the darkest, deadliest (but seemingly innocuous) flora around the world. You never know what might be growing in your neighbor's yard!”
-- Emily Stavrou, Schuler Books & Music, Grand Rapids, MI
Description
Stewart takes on more than 200 of Mother Nature's most appalling creations and offers this A-to-Z compendium of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.
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