Edible and Useful Wildplants of the Urban West: Medicinal, Edible, Dry, and Landscape Uses for the Wildplants of Denver and Other Western Cities - Softcover

Edible and Useful Wildplants of the Urban West: Medicinal, Edible, Dry, and Landscape Uses for the Wildplants of Denver and Other Western Cities

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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Knopf, Jim - Drawings (illustrator). First Edition First Printing Stated. 330 Pages Indexed. Light wear to front cover. Interior text and illustration pages are bright, tight, and white. Black and white illustrations on almost all pages. Without plants, our cities would be ugly places of asphalt, steel, and concrete. Fortunately, nature provides more wild plants than people could ever sow and maintain, thus filling in vacant lots and waste places and healing the scars of disturbed areas. Every city, regardless of size and location, has its share of wild plants. Although this book is focused on Denver, other large cities in the west share many of the same plants. Of course, there are regional variations. For example, the growing season in Los Angeles, the aridity of Phoenix, and the rainfall in Seattle account for the presence or absence of certain wild plants. Wild plants help give the West its unique character. Most of the West is not as lush and green as the East, but it has a stark beauty and other traits that make it exciting and interesting. In many ways, as you study the dispersal of plants, you are studying the very history of the West. Although much of the West has been lost to asphalt and irrigation, contemporary city dwellers can still find the wild west in vacant lots, waste places, roadsides, alleyways, and abandoned fields. Seller Inventory # 20459

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