Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart.

Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, and alarm even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.

Hardcover
236 pages
ISBN: 978-1-56512-683-1

About the author: Amy Stewart tends a poison garden of her own in northern California. She is the award-winning author of four books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world. 

Image description: The cover has a bright green background and has a black decorative pattern with gold thorns on it. The title is printed in a black banner in gold letters at the top of the cover, the subtitle is printed in a gold medal in the center of the cover, and the author's name is printed in a black banner in gold letters at the bottom of the cover.