Find what you’re looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time. Grouped by color and by plant characteristics, 1,293 species in 84 families are described and illustrated. Included here are all the flowers you’re most likely to encounter in the eastern and north-central U.S., westward to the Dakotas and southward to North Carolina and Arkansas, as well as the adjacent parts of Canada.
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- WILDFLOWERS: NE & EASTERN
Excellent line drawings outdated plant names While most of the low scoring reviews complain about the lack of photos or colored pictures, that’s not my complaint. Photos are actually quite limiting for plant identification and color drawings can be misleading. Line drawings that show morphology are the best way to ID, and in that respect this book is excellent. Unfortunately, the botanical nomenclature is outdated. I already owned the 1968 printing (blue and white cover) and purchased this green covered one because it was dated 1998. The…
coloring book Service was great and fast. I will buy from them again. The book on the other hand I was very disappointed with. My old version had pictures that were drawn by very good artists and were in color. You would think that by now they would be replaced with color photos. Instead there are some colored drawings but, most of the pictures are outlines of the plants in black and white and in the corner of the page it orange, blue, red or etc. to tell you what the color should be. I suppose I could buy a…
Simple to use I especially like the Peterson Field Guide Series (A Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-central North America) for its ease of use!With most other guides you need to know many things about the plant/flower BEFORE you can ID it. And, for several of the most popular (Newcombs, especially) you really first must learn to use the key or just page thru the book and hope you find your flower/plant. Because Newcomb’s uses a series of keys, some people who have never tried to ID a…