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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stewart, Amy
Other Authors: Morrow-Cribbs, Briony
Rosen, Jonathon
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Poisonous plants.
Dangerous plants.
Physical Description:xvii, 235 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 19 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Aconite
  • Arrow poisons
  • Ayahuasca vine and chacruna
  • Betel nut
  • Castor bean
  • Ordeal poisons
  • Coca
  • Coyotillo
  • 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
  • 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
  • White snakeroot
  • Yew
  • Poison gardens.