Botanica North America : the illustrated guide to our native plants, their botany, history, and the way they have shaped our world / Marjorie Harris.
TITLE:
Botanica North America : the illustrated guide to our native plants, their botany, history, and the way they have shaped our world / Marjorie Harris.
Publication Date:
2003
Publication Information:
New York : HarperCollins,
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
665 p. : ill., map.
Summary:
Did you know that the smell of sassafras blowing offshore convinced Columbus he was near land? Or that the American sycamore, which has the largest tree trunk in the eastern forest, can live for 500 to 600 years? Or that in the period before the American Revolution, patriots designated a sycamore tree in each colony as a "Liberty Tree" -- a meeting place for plotting against the British? These facts are just a few of thousands you'll find inBotanica North America, an encyclopedia of the wonderfully diverse North American native plants by noted Canadian garden writer Marjorie Harris.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780062702319
