620 Wild Plants of North America: Fully Illustrated
Naturalists, birders, students, teachers, conservationists, environmental consultants, wildlife biologists and botanists—amateur and professonal alike—will find this picture book of plant anatomy to be an invaluable reference alongside local floras and field guides.
620 Wild Plants of North America describes, in beautiful detail, the characteristic features of 89 families of vascular plants—including trees, shrubs, vines, wildflowers, grasses, sedges, horsetails, and club-mosses—using labeled ink drawings, text and range maps. The author's drawings are from plants in the field and freshly picked specimens. The text outlines habitat, flowers, fruit, seeds, leaves and stems. The range maps cover central North America from the three Prairie Provinces south to northern Texas and from Iowa west to Idaho. With its detailed, labeled drawings, 620 Wild Plants opens the door to understanding the unique morphological features of plants in all of the major families represented in the flora of central North America.
Includes: over 5,000 detailed, labeled line drawings; scientific names, including synonyms, and common names; detailed descriptions of habitat, flowers, leaves and stems; range maps for the northern Great and Central Plains; glossary, reference list and index.

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620 Wild Plants of North America: Fully Illustrated
Naturalists, birders, students, teachers, conservationists, environmental consultants, wildlife biologists and botanists—amateur and professonal alike—will find this picture book of plant anatomy to be an invaluable reference alongside local floras and field guides.
620 Wild Plants of North America describes, in beautiful detail, the characteristic features of 89 families of vascular plants—including trees, shrubs, vines, wildflowers, grasses, sedges, horsetails, and club-mosses—using labeled ink drawings, text and range maps. The author's drawings are from plants in the field and freshly picked specimens. The text outlines habitat, flowers, fruit, seeds, leaves and stems. The range maps cover central North America from the three Prairie Provinces south to northern Texas and from Iowa west to Idaho. With its detailed, labeled drawings, 620 Wild Plants opens the door to understanding the unique morphological features of plants in all of the major families represented in the flora of central North America.
Includes: over 5,000 detailed, labeled line drawings; scientific names, including synonyms, and common names; detailed descriptions of habitat, flowers, leaves and stems; range maps for the northern Great and Central Plains; glossary, reference list and index.

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620 Wild Plants of North America: Fully Illustrated

620 Wild Plants of North America: Fully Illustrated

by Tom Reaume
620 Wild Plants of North America: Fully Illustrated

620 Wild Plants of North America: Fully Illustrated

by Tom Reaume

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Naturalists, birders, students, teachers, conservationists, environmental consultants, wildlife biologists and botanists—amateur and professonal alike—will find this picture book of plant anatomy to be an invaluable reference alongside local floras and field guides.
620 Wild Plants of North America describes, in beautiful detail, the characteristic features of 89 families of vascular plants—including trees, shrubs, vines, wildflowers, grasses, sedges, horsetails, and club-mosses—using labeled ink drawings, text and range maps. The author's drawings are from plants in the field and freshly picked specimens. The text outlines habitat, flowers, fruit, seeds, leaves and stems. The range maps cover central North America from the three Prairie Provinces south to northern Texas and from Iowa west to Idaho. With its detailed, labeled drawings, 620 Wild Plants opens the door to understanding the unique morphological features of plants in all of the major families represented in the flora of central North America.
Includes: over 5,000 detailed, labeled line drawings; scientific names, including synonyms, and common names; detailed descriptions of habitat, flowers, leaves and stems; range maps for the northern Great and Central Plains; glossary, reference list and index.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780889772144
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Publication date: 12/15/2009
Series: Canadian Plains Studies , #1
Edition description: Illustrate
Pages: 784
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 11.10(h) x 2.10(d)
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