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Weeds : in defense of nature's most unloved plants / Richard Mabey.

by Mabey, Richard, 1941-

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Weeds -- History.

Horticulture -- Sociological aspects.

9780062065452 (alk. paper)

0062065459 (alk. paper)

xi, 324 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

First printed in Great Britain in 2010 by Profile Books Ltd. as Weeds: how vagabond plants gatecrashed civilisation and changed the way we think about nature.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-309) and index.

Thoroughwort -- Adonis -- Knotgrass -- Waybread -- Self-heal -- Love-in-idleness -- Gallant-soldier -- Burdock -- Grelda -- French willow -- Triffid -- The Shoreditch orchid.

Weaving together natural history, botanical science and insight from his own travels, a nature writer reveals the many hidden truths behind these scourges of lawns and gardens, and explores how weeds have been portrayed from the Bible all the way to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

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