Rocky Mountain Wildflowers


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With this pack-perfect book, 92 flowers are featured that are most likely to be seen in the Cascade and Olympic Mountains. Flowers are grouped by colour and general location with the Latin and common names given. Detailed and enchanting color photographs by Bob and Ira Spring make wildflower identification and tips on photographing a breeze.




A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers


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This guide describes 590 species, with detailed information on flowering season, related species, range, and habitat. More than 100 plant drawings supplement these descriptions, and more than 200 color photographs show flowers as they appear in the field.




Rocky Mountain Wildflowers


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Pocket-sized guide describes and pictures, in full color, 80 of the most common wildflowers in the Rockies.




Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountain Region


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for loving where you live. Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountain Region is a comprehensive field guide for anyone wishing to learn about the amazingly diverse wildflowers of the region. Organized by flower color and shape, and including a range map for each flower described, the guide is as user-friendly as it is informative. This must-have book is perfect for hikers, naturalists, and native plant enthusiasts. Covers the entire Rocky Mountain range from Canada south to New Mexico, separated into Northern Rockies, Middle Rockies, and Southern Rockies Describes and illustrates nearly 1,200 commonly encountered species Includes perennials, annuals, biennials, vines, shrubs, and subshrubs, both native and non-native 1,245 superb color photographs and 1,189 range maps User-friendly organization by flower color, shape, and petal count




Northern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers


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Field guide to more than 300 wildflowers conveniently arranged for easy identification. Includes vibrant color photos and descriptions.




Northern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers


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Field guide to more than 300 wildflowers conveniently arranged for easy identification. Includes vibrant color photos and descriptions.







Rocky Mountain Wildflowers


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This blooming guide features 95 wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains that will most likely be seen by visitors, and features quotes from early frontier explorers and naturalists who wrote about them. 177 photos. 8 maps.




Southern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers


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Published in cooperation with the Rocky Mountain Nature Association. This book describes 200 wildflowers common to the Rocky Mountains.




Rocky Mountain Wildflowers


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* Superb photos of the most "showy" Rocky Mountain wildflowers * Wildflowers from New Mexico up through Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Alberta. * Excellent descriptions by horticulturist Jim Ells The Rocky Mountains, from northern New Mexico through southern Alberta are collectively referred to as the "spine of the continent." Along the flanks of this spine you will find a starting array of stunningly beautiful wildflowers in the life zones from the foothills at 5,000 feet to alpine zone at 11,000 feet. Rocky Mountain Wildflowers is the author's selection of the 150 most "showy," beautiful, colorful, and striking wildflowers based on years of observation. The range of wildflowers runs from the deep red Plains Prickly Pear to pink Showy Milkweed in the foothills to delicate purple Fairy Slippers and the pink Woodland Pinedrops in deep moist subalpine forests and to the Alpine Buttercups and Yellow Avalanche Lillys at treeline. Every great Rocky Mountain wildflower is included. Each plant is described by its common name, its scientific name and then by the appearance of the stem, leaves and flower and the most likely plant life zones where the flower may be found.