Wildcraft your way to wellness with this expansive guide to ethical and safe foraging, providing detailed information on how to use wild Southwestern plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves! In Southwest Medicinal Plants, John Slattery is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 112 of the region's most powerful wild plants. You'll learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include Clear, color photographs Identification tips Guidance on how to ethically harvest Suggestions for eating and preserving Lists of what to forage for each season, making the guide useful year-round! Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in Arizona, southern California, southern Colorado, southern Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, western and central Texas, and southern Utah. "A wonderful guide that will diversify our diets and lure us into the natural world." --Brad Lancaster, cofounder of DesertHarvesters.org