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Learn to identify common backyard weeds! Hundreds of full-color photos with easy-to-understand text make this a great visual guide to learning about more than 150 species of weeds -- toxic, edible or otherwise interesting -- found in the Upper Midwest, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The species (from Dandelion to Purslane) are organized by type, then by flower color, so you can identify them by their visual characteristics. Plus, learn about how each weed spreads, how to control it and its possible beneficial uses. The information, presented by expert forager Teresa Marrone, is perfect for beginners but also useful for more experienced home gardeners.



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Teresa Marrone

Teresa Marrone became interested in foraging and wild foods while attending college in northern Wisconsin, where a number of her classmates hunted everything from mushrooms to blueberries to deer. After moving to Minneapolis, she entered the word of printing and publishing, becoming managing editor for The Hunting & Fishing Library series of outdoors-themed books. Her first book, Dressing & Cooking Wild Game, was published by the HFL in 1987, and remains in print to this day. Since then, as an independent author, she has written over a dozen additional cookbooks. She is also the author/photographer for a series of photographic field ID guides on wild berries and fruits (published for 4 regions of the US) and is also co-author of a growing series of photographic field ID guides for mushrooms.



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