Moerman, Daniel E.

Native American medicinal plants : an ethnobotanical dictionary / Daniel E. Moerman. - Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2009. - 799 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Abridged version of: Native american ethnobotany / Daniel E. Moerman. c1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 522-527) and indexes.

Plant use by Native Americans -- Plants used as drugs -- Appreciating the common knowledge of our past -- Sources of information on plant usages -- Drug usage categories -- Native Americans -- Organization of the information -- Scientific plant names -- Common plant names -- Ethnobotanical information -- Catalog of plants.

9781604690354 (hardback) 9780881929874 (pbk.)

2008050291


Medicinal plants--North America--Dictionaries.
Materia medica, Vegetable--North America--Dictionaries.
Indians of North America--Medicine--Dictionaries.
Indians of North America--Ethnobotany--Dictionaries.
Ethnobotany--North America--Dictionaries.

RS171 / .M64 2009

615/.32103

QV 13 / M694na 2009