Native American Ethnobotany

Native American Ethnobotany by Daniel E. Moerman. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780881924534.

An extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American Native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and more. Anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman has devoted 25 years to the task of gathering the accumulated ethnobotanical knowledge on more than 4,000 plants. More than 44,000 uses for these plants by various tribes are documented in this book. This is undoubtedly the most massive ethnobotanical survey ever undertaken, preserving an enormous store of information for the future.