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Author Stewart, Amy.

Title Wicked plants : the weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities / Amy Stewart ; etchings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs ; illustrations by Jonathon Rosen.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  581.65 STEWART    Billed
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  581.65 STEWART    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  581.65 STE    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  581.65 STE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  581.65 STEWART    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  581.65 STEWART    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  581.6 STEWART    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  581.65 STE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  581.65 STEWART    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  581.65 STEWART    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xvii, 235, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 19 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-[236]).
Contents Aconite -- Arrow poisons -- Ayahuasca vine and chacruna -- Betel nut -- Castor bean -- Ordeal poisons -- Coca -- Coyotillo -- This houseplant could be your last -- Deadly nightshade -- Death camas -- Deadly dinner -- Ergot -- Fatal fungus -- Habanero chili -- Henbane -- The Devil's bartender -- Iboga -- Jimson weed -- Botanical crime families -- Khat -- Killer algae -- Stop and smell the ragweed -- Kudzu -- Lawn of death -- Mala mujer -- Here comes the sun -- Manchineel tree -- Don't look now -- Mandrake -- Marijuana -- Oleander -- Forbidden garden -- Opium poppy -- Dreadful bouquet -- Peacock flower -- Peyote cactus -- Psychedelic plants -- Poison hemlock -- Purple loosestrife -- Weeds of mass destruction -- Ratbane -- Rosary pea -- The terrible toxicodendrons -- Sago palm -- More than one way to skin a cat -- Stinging tree -- Meet the nettles -- Strychnine tree -- Suicide tree -- Carnivores -- Tobacco -- Toxic blue-green algae -- Duck and cover -- Water hemlock -- Water hyacinth -- Social misfits -- Whistling thorn acacia -- Guess who's coming to dinner -- White snakeroot -- Don't tread on me -- Yew.
Subject Poisonous plants.
Dangerous plants.
Added Author Morrow-Cribbs, Briony.
Rosen, Jonathon.
ISBN 9781565126831
1565126831
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