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Hardcover Wild Flowers of North Carolina Book

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ISBN: 0807810649

ISBN13: 9780807810644

Wild Flowers of North Carolina

Name: Comprehensive, colorful guide, but hard to use
Item: Wild Flowers of North Carolina
Rating: 4
Author: Thriftbooks.com User

by Anne H. Lindsey, C. Ritchie Bell, William S. Justice, et al.

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Book Overview

This book contains four hundred full-color photographs of wildflowers, trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, and weeds; it also describes habitat, range, size, months of bloom, and features for identification. Covering the Carolinas, Virginia, and parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, this book is designed for easy transportation into the field.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807810649

ISBN13:9780807810644

Release Date:December 1968

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:217 Pages

Weight:1.24 lbs.

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Comprehensive, colorful guide, but hard to use

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago

This guidebook to wild flowers in North Carolina has about 500 species illustrated, each with a description and a small photograph of the flower and plant. The guide deserves high marks for the number of species included and the scholarship which went into describing each by location, blooming date, and other information. Brief tidbits concerning medicinal uses, edibiity, and folklore of the plant are included in many descriptions. Indexed are both scientific and common names of each plant. However, the guide is nearly worthless for the field identification of flowers. There needs to be some sort of key or pattern to help with identification. There seems no rhyme nor reason I can discern with the order in which the flowers are described. It would be a lot better if the flowers were grouped by blooming date and color, e.g. yellow flowers that appear in May should be together as should purple flowers blooming in September. So, if you want to go into your backyard and identify what is blooming there you will need a field guide, not this book. Smallchief

Wild Flowers of NC

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago

Excellent reference book for use in describing flowers growing in North Carolina at certain times of year.