Has anyone read _Useful Wild Plants..._ by Scooter Cheatham

The Useful Wild Plants of Texas, the Southeastern and Southwestern United States, the Southern Plains, and Northern Mexico by Scooter Cheatham is an incomplete volume of books by a man who has dedicated his life to ethnobotany and who is currently studying and writing this series of volumes.

The books can be ordered here:
https://usefulwildplants.org/order

but the books each volume is a bit pricey and currently there are only 4 volumes and the c's still are incomplete.  I am just wondering if anyone has seen or owns one of these books and if they are worth the price.


PS
I found an older book written by the same author. The book can be borrowed and read for free here:
https://archive.org/details/usefulwildplants0000chea

Welcome to Permies!

I have not, but I love local knowledge of areas. I'm in the Northeast and have a few New England type books myself.

How did you stumble onto this book?

Right most people wouldnt be interested in a book like this unless they lived in the area. Other books do exist the thing is that These books cost considerably more and it is looking like there will be many volumes.

I came across the book series because of an issue of Texas coop power magazine I was given. The article is called "make your Shelf Useful" and it talks a bit about the author Scooter Cheatham and how he has "dedicated his life to voluminous books that document uses for Texas plants"  

Then it goes on to talk about some useful plants such as Beebrush, hackberry, inland sea oats, ragweed and trumpet creeper.

Daniel, dude, I myself have also been keepin my eyeballs peeled for one or more volumes of this series for an affordable price, but thus far to no avail. THE best deal I've seen on any of these was the 2nd volume that popped up a while back on an online used bookstore-can't remember which one-and that was at $90...............I've never found a better price, haha.

Man though I would love to have all four of the volumes of this series dedicated to the wild plants of Texas. This is quite an interesting subject, and even more so because of the rate at which people are flooding into Texas from other areas, buying up real estate, and so much of our land being rapidly "developed" (if you want to call an ever-increasing expanse of concrete, "speculative" housing, and slews of carwashes "improvements", haha) because there is less and less time left to take notice of some of these plants.

Keep an eye out dude, and maybe one or both of us will eventually land good deals on these books. Shoot though, they are such a niche interest, and so low overall book count, that what ones are out there are mostly owned and kept by folks, because those folks wanted them specifically because of possessing an interest in this subject.

You what is really crazy is that this series is four volumes in, and not even out of the "c's" yet.................Haha. Wild.