San Antonio College Library

Explores the lore and legend of the bluebonnet, its musical and artistic significance, and its role in Texas' culture. Includes instructions on how to grow the plant.

We live surrounded by the beauty and the bounty of the plant world, but we rarely pause to think about the crucial roles that plants play in nearly every aspect of human life and society. This book is a wide-ranging introduction to the science behind the essential functions performed by plants that affect our everyday lives.

For professional botanists, agriculturalists, horticulturalists and others.

"In this fascinating book, celebrated author Judith Sumner rescues from the pages of history the practical experience and botanical wisdom of generations of Americans. Crossing the disciplines of history, ethnobotany, and horticulture - and with a flair for the colorful anecdote - Sumner underlines a part of the American story often ignored or forgotten: how European settlers and their descendants made use of the "strange" new plants they found, as...