Weeds : : in Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants

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First printed in Great Britain in 2010 by Profile Books Ltd. as Weeds: how vagabond plants gatecrashed civilisation and changed the way we think about nature.
Thoroughwort -- Adonis -- Knotgrass -- Waybread -- Self-heal -- Love-in-idleness -- Gallant-soldier -- Burdock -- Grelda -- French willow -- Triffid -- The Shoreditch orchid.
Weaving together natural history, botanical science and insight from his own travels, a nature writer reveals the many hidden truths behind these scourges of lawns and gardens, and explores how weeds have been portrayed from the Bible all the way to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

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Weeds in History, Literature, and Today submitted by sdunav on August 8, 2011, 11:21am Mabey combines ecological, historical, and literary perspectives in a way that I really enjoyed - and he is very accurate and perceptive! - but sometimes it is difficult to match the English common names with the American ones. There is a plant index in the back, but is alphabetical by English common names, so I had to scan down to see the accompanying Latin names to figure out quite a few species. Despite years of studying Chenopodium species (including quinoa), I had no idea that C. album is "fat-hen" in the UK. It's a much cuter name than goosefoot or lamb's quarters.