"The Concise Encyclopedia of Favorite Wild Flowers," like the two previous volumes in this series, is intended to be a gardener's helper and reference book. It is for those who wish to grow native plants in a semi-naturalistic or informal setting around their homes. It is not a field guide for accurate identification of native plants in the wild - many excellent ones for this purpose can be found in libraries and bookstores. The purpose of this book is to give gardeners a choice among a hundred kinds of wild flowers suitable for growing in today's home garden. There are, of course, many more. Some may already be known to the reader; many others are listed in catalogs of native-plant specialists and in books devoted to the wild flowers of particular regions. Each plant is presented here under its most familiar common name; its other common names, as well as its botanical name, are also given, and all will be found in the Index. [From the Author's Introduction] This description may be from another edition of this product.
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