Florida EthnobotanyWinner of the 2005 Klinger Book Award Presented by The Society for Economic Botany. Florida Ethnobotany provides a cross-cultural examination of how the states native plants have been used by its various peoples. This compilation includes common names of plants in their historical sequence, weaving together what was formerly esoteri |
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Alabama applied Asteraceae Bahamas bark Bartram Belize berry boiled Brazil Britton and Brown called Caribbean Carolina Cherokee Chickasaw Chiltoskey 1975 Choctaw common names considered Correll and Correll Creek Cuba decoction diarrhea diuretic Dominican Republic Dutch eaten edible English Europe Europeans Fabaceae Fernald fever Flora Florida flower Foster and Duke fruits Gaelic genus German Greek grows Guadeloupe Haiti Hamel and Chiltoskey herb Hispaniola Hocking Huastec indigenous infusion Iroquois Italian Jamaica known Koasati Latin leaf leaves Linnaeus Liogier Mabberley 1997 mangrove Martinique Maya medicine Menomini Meskwaki Mexico Mikasuki Millspaugh 1892 Moerman Morton Muskogee NaŽhuatl native O’odham Oaxaca Ojibwa Old World plants poisonous Porcher Potawatomi problems Puerto Rico recorded Roig root San Luis Potosı seeds Seminoles Sonora sores South southeastern southern Spanish species stems Sturtevant 1955 Swanton Taino tonic treat tree tribes tropical Veracruz vine Virginia Vogel wild wood word wrote yellow YucataŽn