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Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide collects poems, essays, and letters from the 1700s to the present that focus on wildflowers and their place in our culture and in the natural world. Editor Susan Barba has curated a selection of plants and texts that celebrate diversity: There are foreign-born writers writing about American plants and American writers on non-native plants. There are rural writers with deep regional knowledge and urban writers...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The Secrets of Wildflowers is destined to be an indispensable book for anyone who loves and admires the natural world. Few things in nature beautify the world more than wildflowers. Their countless colors and endless designs are found almost anywhere-from fields to woods, deserts to ponds, and even in junkyards, dumps, and cracks in the pavement.
The Secrets of Wildflowers, Jack Sanders's colorful tribute, is bursting with odd facts and wonderful...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This is a follow-up volume to Gracie's Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast. This new book treats 35 species of summer blooming wildflower some common, others less so concentrating on each species life history and, in the same manner as the earlier book, providing intriguing insights into the biology, ecology, folklore, and, where relevant, ethno-botany of each flower. Each species account is richly illustrated with a range of color photos"--
Author
Series
Peterson field guide volume 17
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The bestselling National Audubon Society field guides to North American wildflowers have been brought to a new level of beauty, accuracy, and usefulness. More than 700 new full-color photos, showing every species both in close-up and in its natural setting, highlight these updated guides. New introductions provide clearer and more complete explanations of how to identify each species.
20) How to know the wild flowers: a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common wild flowers
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English