Wildflowers and Weeds

I have the 1972 edition of this book, and have used it for many years. The plants are grouped by family with a color photo of each plant. The descriptions are very short, stating the common and scientific names, months of bloom, height, and habitat for each plant. For some plants, it also gives a description of a similar species which is not illustrated. The book covers the Great Lakes area, including all of Michigan & Wisconsin & parts of Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario & Quebec. If you're an amateur looking at a non-woody plant in this region and want to identify it, chances are it will be in this book. The photos are very clear and easy to use for identification. There is a kind of chart/key to guide you to the plant families. Highly recommended! (The authors are Courtenay and Zimmerman, not Courtena.)

Everyone should have this book in their personal library. This is the best book I have ever seen on wild plant identification. I use it regularly to identify and know the difference between native wild plants and weeds making sure not to destroy the beneficial plants.I have learned a lot about plant identification from this book and wish it was more available. Everyone I know would have a copy.

I do volunteer prairie restoration and this book is currently used by many people in the field. The people who use it a great deal say it is the best for plant ID. I have a list of 13 people who are looking for a copy of this book and it is highly recommended. Anyone know how to get 13 copies of this book or get the publisher to put it back in print?P. Schulte Mokena IL

most of the weed i.d. books i've seen are line drawings but this one (i assume by courtenay and zimmerman tho it doesn't say) is very good-nice clear pictures with easy quick info and many sub species are listed as well-sure wish i could buy this book to stock for my customers who are now growing wildflowers and have no clue which are flowers and which might as well be plucked from the area-