Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide
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- ISBN13: 9780316604420
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product Description
An ingenious new key system for quick, positive meadow identification of wildflowers, flowering shrubs and vines in paperback for the first time. 1,075 drawings, 175 in color.
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Because color is one of the main identifying characteristics of wildflowers, it doesn’t make sense to print the drawings in black and white. Sorry, but this book didn’t work for me.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The first copy I ordered was missing some pages and had others in the incorrect order. One quick email to the seller resulted in a fresh, new, and perfect copy sent to me. I was impressed with this level of customer service, and recommend the seller highly.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Living in Texas, we didn’t find that a guide devoted to wildflowers establish east of the Mississippi River to be overly helpful. The line drawings are nice, and telling where the plants are likely to be establish is helpful. The publishers might have mentioned the point locality of this guide.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I bought an ancient (hardcopy) edition of this in the 80s and I still use it. You can key many flowers down to a famlily or group of species (or even species). Then use your state’s/region’s huge thumpin’ botany book, internet plant atlas, or meadow ecologist to find the species. Botanists are dismayed that it doesn’t have a dichotomous key–which means it’s fantastic. I have used it in Kentucky, Virginia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and North Florida. I carry it in my vehicle to keep it handy.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Yes, it is for the Northeastern US and Canada, and it covers that area rather well. I live in North Carolina. Most of the plants are here although we have additional species not covered. But I can usually get close enough that I can then go for the extreme detail of Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. (I have both editions of this Souteastern bible and both editions of the companion Wild Flowers of North Carolina that has color photos).
If I reflect I know the plant I can look in the pointer for the botanical or the common name and then go to persons descriptions. The key is brilliant and simple to use (I don’t have to keep going back to the glossary for every additional term). If I don’t have the plant in front of me I can check variations quickly.
The plant drawings provide detail that photographs usually don’t. If you’re just looking for color then the additional guides should be sufficient, but this guide provides the detail I don’t get from the additional guides.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5