num_pages: 400
description: From the front flap:Here are 400 wild flowers of North America, shown actual size in beautiful true-to-life full color, with detailed descriptions and with full information as to family, geographical range, the nature of the environment in which the flowers are found, etc. Common names and their variations, as well as standard botanical classification and nomenclature, are given for all flowers. A Ready Identification Chart lists the flowers by their distinctive features and facilitates identification of all the flowers represented and their related species. A detailed Glossary provides full explanation of botanical terms.This encyclopedic work is based on an authoritative publication of the Smithsonian Institution: The Mary Vaux Walcott color plates in this book are reproduced by permission from the famous portfolio set “ North American Wild Flowers” by Mary Vaux Walcott as published by the Smithsonian Institution. The magnificent and completely accurate paintings, which are accorded top-ranking by artists as well as botanists throughout the country, have been supplemented by additional paintings by Dorothy Falcon Platt.
language: English
title: Wild Flowers of America: 400 Flowers in Full Color
publisher: Random House