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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illustrator); Amy Stewart; Drawings by Jonathon Rosen

Stewart takes on more than 200 of Mother Nature's most appalling creations and offers this A-to-Z compendium of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.


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A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations. It's an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. You'll learn which plants to avoid (like exploding shrubs), which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome (like the vine that ate the South), and which ones have been killing for centuries (like the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln's mother). Menacing botanical illustrations and splendidly ghastly drawings create a fascinating portrait of the evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.

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  • Title Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities
  • Author Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illustrator); Amy Stewart; Drawings by Jonathon Rosen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill
  • Date 2009-05-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781565126831 / 1565126831
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.25 x 5.7 x 0.8 in (18.42 x 14.48 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Poisonous plants, Dangerous plants
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009006192
  • Dewey Decimal Code 581.65

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/2009, Page 10
  • Scientific American, 08/01/2009, Page 78

About the author

Briony Morrow-Cribbs studied studied art at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, and currently lives in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she owns and operates Twin Vixen Press. Amy Stewart is the award-winning author of six books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world. She is the cofounder of the popular blog Garden Rant and is a contributing editor at Fine Gardening magazine. She lives in Portland with her husband Scott Brown, a rare book dealer. When she isn't writing, she's making art, which you can see on Instagram, or teaching art and writing classes online.
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