Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families

2-celled acrid alkaloids Alternate leaves antispasmodic Aster family astringent bark berberine berries Bigfoot bisexual bitter blood boiled bracts Buttercup capsule celled ovary Densmore diaphoretic diarrhea Dicot digestive diuretic dried eaten edible Sturtevant effect emmenagogue expectorant female flowers Fern flavonoids flour flowering plants fruit fungus genera genus glycosides grass herbal herbs irritating Key Words laxative leaves are edible lichen Lily Lust MALLOW Medicinally menstruation mildly Moerman monocot Montana Moore Moss mucilage mucilaginous numerous stamens nuts Olsen opposite leaves ORDER ovary oxalic acid petals pistil plant is edible poisonous pollen potherb poultice produce properties raw or cooked resins roots salad or potherb saponin Schauenberg sedative seeds are edible sepals sepals and petals separate sepals shrubs single-celled ovary sometimes species spores stalk stamens starchy stems stimulate Subfamily sugar tannic acid toxic trees Tribe typically united petals united sepals usually volatile oils wild Willard World-wide