Vickery's Folk Flora
This book is a dictionary of British plants and their folklore. It demonstrates that plant folklore in the British Isles is thriving, adapting, and evolving, even in urban areas.
Each entry includes:
- The plant’s English, scientific, and local names.
- A brief description and distribution of the plant, and a history of its introduction to the British Isles (for cultivated plants).
- Information on the folklore and traditional uses of the plant, arranged in a sequence starting with general beliefs, customs, medicine, other uses, and legends about individual representatives.