Botany for Herbalists

An essential guide to herbal botany for budding and experienced herbalists

Botany for Herbalists artfully combines history, science, and technique to provide a foundation in botanical knowledge for herbalists. In this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated book in four parts, educator and herbalist Holly Poole-Kavana provides detailed information on:

• The importance of traditional and contemporary indigenous land practices
• An examination of the plant life cycle from seeds to flowers, including plant anatomy and functions
• Practical applications for the herbalist, including harvesting techniques and apothecary considerations
• Essential information on plant evolution, classification, nomenclature, and identification
• Comprehensive profiles of the most common medicinal plant families

A crucial book for anyone from the plant-curious to the herbal medicine practitioner, Botany for Herbalists truly unifies botany and herbalism in an unprecedented way.

• “We have needed a book like Botany for Herbalists for centuries. For anyone hoping to understand and see plants on a deeper level, Holly Poole-Kavana’s book takes a delightful, insightful, respectful, and integrative approach to the world of plant botany, identification, and their structures and functions…This is a book that educates while gladdening your heart and connecting you to place.”
  Maria Noël Groves, Clinical Herbalist at Wintergreen Botanicals and author of Body into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self Care