Ace’s Favorite Plant Reference Books
Used for Tash Plants Videos
Georgia, Ada E. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and Troublesome Plants in the United States and Canada. New York: Macmillan, 1914. Full PDF available here!
Hutchens, Alma R. Indian Herbology of North America. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1991.
Judd, Walter S., Campbell, Christopher S., Kellogg, Elizabeth A., Stevens, Peter F., and Donoghue, Michael J. Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach. 4th ed. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, 2016. [Shoutout to Dr. Alan Weekly & the UNC CH Local Flora class!]
Burgess, Rebecca. Harvesting Color: How to Find Plants and Make Natural Dyes. New York: Artisan, 2011.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013.
Mabey, Richard. Food for Free. London: Collins, 1972.
Kaishian, Patricia Ononiwu. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2025.
Roach, Mary. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013
This last one is technically not about plants, but a prominent application of plants to human culture and life is our consumption of them by way of the alimentary canal, and this book goes into some plant-y details in that regard.