Las Yerbas de la Gente: A Study of Hispano-American Medicinal Plants Volume 60 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780932206589)

Karen Cowan Ford provides a guide to five extensive collections of medicinal plants from the Southwest U.S. and Mexico that are housed at the Ethnobotanical Laboratory (now part of the Archaeobiology Laboratories) at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Five appendices, which form the bulk of the book, include information on the Spanish and botanical names of the plants, where they were collected, and their historical use. Also included is a glossary of Spanish names of medicinal plants and a dictionary of botanical names.

Author: Karen Cowan Ford
ISBN-10: 0932206581
ISBN-13: 9780932206589
Publisher: U of M Museum Anthro Archaeology
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1975
Pages: 437
Format: Paperback