This handbook series provides detailed information on herbs and other species of ecological, medicinal, and economic, and other importance. For each book, the author provides the common and scientific names of the different plants discussed and describes the habitat in which particular plants thrive. Where applicable, the medicinal uses of species are highlighted, along with other uses of significance. To aid in accessing information, the authors lists the entries alphabetically, and they address the ecological significance of the different species. These books are tremendously useful to food producers, food technologists, chemists, pharmacognosists, farmers, and those in research and development of food and medicinal plants.