Botanical knowledge of a group of college students in South Carolina, U.S.A.

Ethnobotany Research and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages 443-452

  Wagner, Gail E ^a  

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DOI: 10.17348/era.6.0.443-458     Document Type: Article

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