Medicinal Plant Coloring Book Signing
Saturday June 23 from 11:00 - 1:30
Join local "Plant Detective" radio show producer Beth Judy for
a book signing of her new Medicinal Plants of North America:
A Flora Delaterre TM Coloring Book. Since 1996, botanical gumshoe
Flora Delaterre has informed public radio listeners across the country
about medicinal plants on the weekly program "The Plant Detective,"
produced by Montana Public Radio. Now, Flora presents Medicinal
Plants of North America: A Flora Delaterre™ Coloring Book
for kids ages 7 and up (and colorists of all ages).
The book presents black and white drawings of 14 plants by botanical
illustrator DD Dowden plus information about past and current medicinal
uses of the plants, fascinating facts as well as scenes of Flora
Delaterre investigating plants. Plants include American Ginseng,
Calendula, Cranberry, Dandelion, Echinacea, Flax, Lobelia, Marsh
Mallow, Mayapple, Milk Thistle, Pleurisy Root, Saint Johns Wort,
White Willow, and Yew. Beth Judy has written and produced The Plant
Detective since 1995. For many years she worked as a freelance publications
services provider (writing, editing, proofreading, indexing) and
radio producer.
Today, in addition to her work on The Plant Detective, Beth is
a freelance writer specializing in writing for kids. She loves her
community of Missoula and her state of Montana.
A few favorite fun facts from Beth’s new book:
• Willow bark is the natural pain reliever
that brought us aspirin. In addition, all bats used in the game
called cricket are made of willow wood. There's even a species known
as cricket-bat willow that's grown on special plantations.
• Milk thistle is both a noxious weed and a valuable liver
protectant.
• Brightly colored pleurisy root soothes inflammation and helps
people cough up mucus. It's also called butterfly weed because butterflies
love it, including the caterpillars of monarch butterflies.
• American Indian peoples used mayapple, native to North America,
to cure warts. Doctors still use medicine from mayapple for warts,
and it's also found in two chemotherapy drugs, etoposide and teniposide.
Teniposide is used mainly to treat childhood leukemia.
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