American root drugs

Alice Henkel and Beverly Thomas Galloway

Ginseng in the hardwood shade. Goldenseal worth its weight in silver. Skunk-cabbage, sweet-flag and wild turnip, the roots American diggers hauled out of the woods for the druggist's counter. Henkel's Bureau of Plant Industry guide shows you each plant, where it grows, when to dig it and what the trade paid, with the field detail of someone who actually knelt in the leaf litter. A working portrait of the forest as a living pharmacy. Take it on your next walk and read the ground differently.