Book Description
Describes flowers, leaves, size, habitats, and known ranges for over 1500 wildflowers.
Author : Frank D. Venning
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2001-04-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781582381275
Describes flowers, leaves, size, habitats, and known ranges for over 1500 wildflowers.
Author : David M. Brandenburg
Publisher : National Wildlife Federation F
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781402741548
Presents a comprehensive field guide that covers more than seven hundred species of wildflowers in North America, providing common and scientific names; flowering season; leaf, stalk, and blossom descriptions; and range maps.
Author : Ronald J. Taylor
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Desert plants
ISBN : 9780878423767
Desert Wildflowers of North America leads visitors and certified desert rats alike through the flora of the blooming desert. This illustrated full-color guide contains profiles of more than 500 species of plants. The simplified botanical key and illustrated glossary help even novice wildflower admirers to identify desert plants with confidence.
Author : Catherine H. Howell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 142621281X
With this basic beginner's field guide to North American wildflowers, all who enjoy nature and the outdoors can identify common wildflowers, from backyard weeds to dainty forest blossoms. In a logical, user-friendly, highly visual format, this new title offers key facts about 160 of the most common wildflowers and weeds, coast to coast, including Canada and Alaska. To help with identification, each of the 160 entries has both a color photograph showing the plant in context and a color illustration showing the blossom close-up. This book is the perfect starting point for anyone, young or old, interested in learning how to identify wildflowers.
Author : Timothy Coffey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780395515938
This highly entertaining reference book presents the popular lore, social history, and practical uses of nearly seven hundred native flowers.
Author : Roger Tory Peterson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780395911723
This book is a guide to the wildflowers in the Northcentral and Eastern regions of the United States.
Author : Wilbur H. Duncan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820327471
Richly illustrated with over 600 color photographs, this guide describes more than 1,100 wildflowers that can be found east of the Mississippi--in our woods and parks, along mountain trails or dunes, and even floating in streams. Whether you are a resident or a visitor, an amateur naturalist or a professional botanist, this guide will be a welcome addition to your library, classroom, or backpack. Wildflowers of the Eastern United States is Thorough: Covers more than 1,100 species of wildflowers found from Maine to northern Florida, including forbs, grasses, rushes, and sedges. More than 700 of these species also are found west of the Mississippi. Useful: Includes both common and scientific names. The succinct descriptions and color photographs provide the most easily recognizable characteristics necessary for positive identification of each species. Accessible: Keeps language as simple as possible so that hobbyists as well as specialists will find the book accurate and easy to use. A glossary and line drawings define and illustrate botanical terminology, and the authors provide a brief guide to plant structure. Informative: Describes range, blooming season, and typical habitat for each species. A list of plants with unusual characteristics is a further aid to identification.
Author : Carol Levine
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780300065602
A guide to identifying herbaceous weeds and wildflowers as they are found in winter in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, featuring illustrated in-depth entries on 391 species of herbaceous plants, and briefer mentions of 191 similar species.
Author : John Eastman
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0811740196
A guide to plant life in open dryland habitats. Fascinating fact and folklore. Detailed, beautiful drawings.
Author : Damian Fagan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1493057820
This user-friendly field guide to 600 wildflowers found in North America is organized by color and alphabetically to enable wildflower enthusiasts and nature lovers to identify and learn about the natural and cultural history of flowering plants. Color photographs accompanied by plant descriptions, range, flowering periods, and other natural history notes such as historical uses, etymology, pollinator associations will entice and educate readers from coast to coast.