Toxic Plants of North America

By George E. Burrows and Ronald J. Tyrl

Covers both wild and planted toxic plants found in the North American continent north of the Tropic of Cancer. Addresses animal and human intoxications with critical information like plant morphology and distribution, clinical signs and pathologic changes of toxicity, and treatment. Includes glossary of botanical, toxicological, physiological, and chemical terms; a comprehensive index; and extensive bibliography.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813822661
• ISBN13: 9780813822662
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 1340 Pages
• Weight: 7.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 2.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

An invaluable reference.

The hefty price tag of this paperback may limit it to college-level collections, but there it's appropriate and important for any collection strong in environmental science, veterinary science, agricultural science or botany. The organ or body system affected by the plant poison serves as a point of reference here, with chapters organized with vets, livestock owners and students in mind. Each coverage begins with the system and moves to an explanation of the toxic plants that can affect it. Color photos of each plant round out the details. An invaluable reference. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

Excellent sourcebook on poisonous plants

Toxic Plants of North America is a grandiose work, fruit of many years of intense labor, as one can confirm just by leafing through its hunderds of pages. More than just an academic resource work, this treatise is one of the very few that can actually be used as a textbook for a course on poisonous plants.Burrows and Tyrl's book is one of the most ambitious projects ever to be undertaken about North American toxic flora since 1964. Indeed a newer source of information was long overdue.The book has also many salient features including its clarity, objectivity and a usually neglected feature in other publications, which is the inclusion of pertinent information about poisonous plants of Mexico.I highly recommend this book as a text for courses dealing with poisonous plants offered by Universities in their colleges of Animal Science, Range Ecology and Veterinary Medicine.Toxic Plants of North America is destined to be a definitive work on the subject.