North American cornucopia : top 100 indigenous food plants / / Ernest Small

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910477116903321
• Autore: Small Ernest <1940->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, Florida : , : Taylor & Francis, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xlix, 743 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 581.632
• Soggetti: Plants, Edible - North America; Endemic plants - North America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Acerola -- American Chestnut -- American Ginseng -- American persimmon -- Anise Hyssop -- Aronia -- Azolla (Mosquito Ferns) -- Bergamot -- Bilberry -- Black Walnut -- Blackberries and Dewberries -- Blue Honeysuckle -- Blue Waxweed -- Blueberries -- Buffaloberries -- Buffalo Gourd -- Butternut -- Cabbage Palmetto -- Cactus Pear -- California Bay -- Camas -- Canada Garlic -- Cattails -- Cherries: North American Species -- Chinkapin -- Chive -- Chufa -- Cloudberry -- Coast Tarweed -- Cranberry -- (American) Cranberry Bush (Highbush Cranberry) -- Crowberry -- Devil's Claw -- Duck Potato -- Dwarf Cape Gooseberry -- Dwarf Glasswort -- Elder -- Epazote -- Evening Primrose -- Fiddlehead Fern (Ostrich Fern) -- Golden Chia -- Golden Currant -- Grapes -- Groundnut (Apios) -- Hawthorns (Including Mayhaws) -- Hazelnuts -- Hickories -- Hog Peanut -- Honewort -- Hop -- Huckleberries -- Jerusalem Artichoke -- Jojoba -- Joshua Tree -- Juniper -- Labrador Tea -- Lingonberry -- May-Apple -- Maypop -- Mesquite -- Mexican Oregano -- Mountain Mint -- Nettle (Stinging Nettle) -- Nodding Onion -- Northern Gooseberry -- Ogechee Lime -- Oregon Grape -- Paper Birch -- Paradise Tree -- Pawpaw -- Pecan -- Pinon Pine -- Plums: North American Species -- Pokeweed -- Prairie Turnip -- Raspberries -- Red Mulberry -- Reed (Common) -- Roses -- Saguaro -- Salal -- Salmonberry -- Saskatoon -- Sassafras -- Saw Palmetto -- Scotch ; Lovage -- Scurvy Grass -- Sea Grape -- Spicebush -- Squash (Cucurbita pepo Squash) -- Strawberries: North American Species -- Sugar Maple -- Sunflower -- Sweet Gale -- Tepary Bean -- Wild Leek (Ramp) -- Wild Rice -- Winter Purslane -- Yampah -- Yerba Buena.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Presenting detailed scholarship, a thoroughly accessible style, and numerous entertaining anecdotes, North American Cornucopia: Top 100 Indigenous Food Plants is a full-color book dedicated to the most important 100 native food plants of North America north of Mexico that have achieved commercial success or have substantial market potential".