Wildflower Walks and Roads of the Sierra Gold Country
Author : Toni Fauver
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
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Author : Toni Fauver
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
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Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781565794405
Spokane-based author and award-winning photographer Charles Gurche has been capturing Washington's wonderland of wildflowers on film for years. In this practical guide, he now reveals his favorite places to witness the state's unparalleled floral shows. Through his detailed trail descriptions and gorgeous full-color images, Gurche spotlights the state's 50 best day hikes for wildflower viewing. These excursions, located throughout the state, enable hikers of all fitness levels to experience Washington's diverse backcountry at its finest -- and to identify its many colorful and intriguing wildflower species. Driving directions deliver hikers to each trailhead, and color maps illustrate the trail routes. Washington's Best Wildflower Hikes is the ultimate guide for outdoor enthusiasts who wish to discover where to go for their next wildflower trek, what trailside species they are likely to encounter, and when to catch Washington's floral gems in peak bloom. Book jacket.
Author : Hugh Clarke
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1775846415
Written with the non-specialist in mind, this guide is a must-have for flower lovers, hikers, tour guides and tourists – anyone interested in identifying the wild flowers that grace the Cape Peninsula. Quick ID Guide: Wild Flowers of the Cape Peninsula covers the most remarkable and commonly seen wild flowers of Table Mountain, Silvermine and Cape Point. The book was originally published as Common Wild Flowers of Table Mountain in 2007, then revised in 2013 to include the flowers of Silvermine. This new edition offers: 360 (previously 208) of the region’s most remarkable and commonly seen wild flowers; clear photographs of all featured flowers and concise, informative text; flowers grouped according to colour, to help with quick ID; walking routes in the Peninsula’s famed reserves, plotted on 3 clear maps; illustrated glossary of terms. Sales points: Easy-to-use, colour-coded format for quick ID; colour photograph of each flower described; well-plotted flower walks with clear route maps; all the flowers most likely to be seen on these walks; no previous botanical knowledge is necessary!
Author : Thomas Ellsworth Hemmerly
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820321646
This informative field guide covers the wildflowers of the entire Appalachian region, which stretches from Quebec to northern Alabama, encompassing the Catskills of New York, the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, and many mountain ranges in between. Using this book, readers will learn to identify this region's wildflowers by shape, color, family, and habitat. Ecologist and botanist Thomas E. Hemmerly encourages us to "read the landscape" in order to learn about plants' habitats, distribution, and use. In his brief, introductory chapters, he describes ecosystems such as mountain forests and wetlands to provide a context for the information on individual plant species that will be valuable to both professional scientists and amateur naturalists. Practical: The 378 color plates, grouped by color for clear reference, appear alongside plant descriptions for ease of identification.Informative: Each entry includes a description of the plant's habitat, abundance, and geographical distribution, along with information about its ethnobotanical, economic, or medicinal uses. An appendix lists and describes the best places in the Appalachians for "botanizing."User-Friendly: Diagrams of leaf and flower shapes are a further aide to plant identification.The Appalachian Region: Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
Author : Dennis Horn
Publisher : Lone Pine International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category : Wild flowers
ISBN : 9781551059020
"The official field guide of the Tennessee Native Plant Society."
Author : Norma Bangel Wallman
Publisher :
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Indiana
ISBN : 9780615883199
This pictorial field guide to over 300 wildflowers uses more than 400 photo and non-technical descriptions to assist the beginning enthusiast with wildflower identification. While the focus of the book is Holliday Park, may wildflowers are common throughout central Indiana, across the state, and, maybe, in your own back yard.
Author : Stan Tekiela
Publisher : Adventure Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2001-11-16
Category : Wild flowers
ISBN : 9781885061379
You've seen Ohio's beautiful wildflowers. Now learn to identify them. This is your field guide to 200 of Ohio's wildflowers. Full-page photographs and an easy-to-read format present the information that's critical to accurate identification. And the species are organized by color, so when you see a purple flower, simply turn to the purple section of the book. Wildflower identification has never been easier
Author : Mary Vaux Walcott
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Botany
ISBN :
"Lifesize illustrations and descriptive paragraphs on the origin and botanical classification of American wild flowers."--Amazon.com.
Author : John HARRIS (a Cornish Miner.)
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 1875
Category :
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Author : Richard Dowden
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Wild flowers
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