A Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-central North America"If you want to know: How to identify all the principal wildflowers of the Northeast. Their recognition features, common and scientific names, ranges, habitats, and flowering seasons. The universal characteristics of their families. A Field Guide to Wildflowers is the most complete and useful book you can carry into the field, with effective coverage of the United States westward to the Dakotas and southward to North Carolina and Arkansas, as well as the adjacent parts of Canada. 1293 species in 84 families -- the flowers you're most likely to encounter. Descriptions face illustrations -- all information on each species can be seen at a glance. Grouped by flower color -- White, Yellow, Red, Blue, Brown -- and by plant characteristics for easy matching of picture with specimen. Easy-to-learn family symbols in margins provide a quick check. Peterson Identification System shows the points to look for, with arrows and italics. Illustrated glossaries define plant parts and show leaf shapes and arrangements"--Back cover. |
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A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-Central ..., Volume 1 Roger Tory Peterson,Margaret McKenny No preview available - 1968 |
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Alien APRIL-JUNE ASTER AUG.-OCT axils basal leaves blue bogs bracts Canada Canada south color plate COMPOSITE FAMILY COMPOSITE OR DAISY CRANESBILL DAISY FAMILY Compositae downy Dry soil England south fields Flower clusters flower heads FRINGED GOLDENROD green greenish hairy heart-shaped Illinois Indiana Jersey south JOHNSWORT JULY-AUG JULY-OCT JULY-SEPT JUNE-AUG JUNE-JULY JUNE-OCT JUNE-SEPT leaf axils leaflets Liliaceae lobes LOOSESTRIFE Maine south Manitoba marshes Massachusetts south MAY-AUG MAY-JULY MAY-JUNE meadows Michigan Minnesota Missouri narrow Note Nova Scotia Nova Scotia south Ohio Ontario open woods ORCHIS paired pale Pennsylvania petals PHLOX pink pink-red plant Polygonaceae prairies purple purplish Quebec south racemes Ranunculaceae rays roadsides Sandy soil Scrophulariaceae seedpods sepals sessile showy Similar slender smooth south in mts south to Missouri species spikes stalkless stalks stamens stem Swamps thickets tiny toothed TRILLIUM umbel usually VIOLET violet-blue Virginia waste ground waste places whitish whorls WILD Wisconsin yellow York south