Mississippi Trees & Wildflowers: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

Mississippi’s vascular plant list tops 3100, owing in large part to the Magnolia State’s moist, temperate climate and diversity of ecosystems, including tallgrass prairies, swamps, oak savannas, sandy beaches, and brackish marshes. Fittingly, the state tree/wildflower is the magnolia, which can be found in areas rich in sunlight. Plants exude much of a landscape’s character, so many people look to flora to forge deeper connections with the land. This is challenging when there are so many pl...