North American Wildland Plants
Subtitle: A Field Guide
Edition: 6th Ed edition
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: January 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780803243064
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Plant life: general; Science; Forage plants; Range plants; Science/Mathematics; North America; Identification; Environmental Science; Life Sciences - Botany; Science / Botany
Description: "North American Wildland Plants is the sixth edition of North American Range Plants. This comprehensive reference contains the salient characteristics of the most important wildland plants of North America and will help individuals with limited botanical knowledge as well as natural resource professionals to identify wildland plants. The two hundred species of wildland plants in this book were selected because of their abundance, desirability, or poisonous properties. Each of the illustrations has been enhanced to maximize the use of this book as a field guide. Each plant description includes characteristics for identification, an illustration of the plant with enlarged parts, and a general distribution map for North America. Each species description includes nomenclature; life span; origin; season of growth; inflorescence, flower or spikelet, or other reproductive parts; vegetative parts; and growth characteristics. Brief notes are included on habitat; livestock losses; and historic, food, and medicincal uses."--BOOK JACKET.