Top products from r/Ethnobotany
We found 9 product mentions on r/Ethnobotany. We ranked the 8 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
2. Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West: A Guide to Identifying, Preparing, and Using Traditional Medicinal Plants Found in the Deserts and Canyons of the West and Southwest
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
3. Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Healing Arts Press
4. Pharmako Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
5. Pharmako/Poeia, Revised and Updated: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
North Atlantic Books
6. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Dangerous plants of the worldBotanical drawings & etchingsBeautiful hardcover edition
Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart is a good popular science read about toxic/illegal/invasive plant species and breifly covers the history, medicine, science, and myths & legends pertaining to each specimen. The mythology/legends of plants are in no way the focus of the book, but are sprinkled in here and there for them when it applies.
A quick amazon search led me to Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics : Embracing the Myths, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore of the Plant Kingdom. It was written in 1884, so is likely outdated but from the title it seems interesting at least.
I also came across this book that, according to its description, is an "entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the world’s most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore"
I have an older version of this https://www.amazon.com/Plants-Gods-Sacred-Healing-Hallucinogenic/dp/0892819790 which is quite good. I'd love to see the newer edition with color photos.
Pharmako/Poeia
Pharmako/Dynamis
Pharmako/Gnosis
Not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for, but they're great books.
It depends on soil type and moisture levels. Most of of those are indeed old world plants, though most of them can thrive in arid climates with water and proper soil. There are also many native analogues (same genus different species), and that book is a good jumping off point for their qualities.
For more regional herbals, this guy got me started. Or if you want the encyclopedia, this is unrivaled. There are more. But all of these, including Grieves, tells different parts of the same story.