The savannas, pinelands, and hardwood forests of the Atlantic Coastal Plain constitute one of the eastern United States' richest wildflower destinations. Botanists, naturalists, and wildflower enthusiasts alike are drawn to the region for its stunning array of flowering plants and for its extended blooming season. Few regions of the country match its ecological diversity. Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers will serve as a guide to the botanical treasures that can be found in this fascinating landscape. Perfect for both novice and professional, this valuable reference will enhance any visitor's next journey into the Atlantic Coastal Plain. This easy-to-use guide features: detailed descriptions and color photos of more than 300 plants, an introduction to the area's habitats and ecology, a tough, water-resistant cover and extradurable binding, made to withstand field use, a glossary of botanical terms, and a primer on plant characteristics.
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For more than twenty-five years, FalconGuide has set the standard for outdoor recreation guidebooks. Written by top outdoors experts and enthusiasts, each guide invites you to experience the endless adventure and rugged beauty of the great outdoors.
Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers is the most complete guide available to the botanical treasures of the savannas, pinelands, and hardwood forests of the coastal South. A fascinating landscape for botanists, naturalists, and wildflower enthusiasts alike, this spectacular region boasts an extended blooming season and a stunning array of flowering plants.
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Guaranteed binding - if this binding fails, the publisher will replace the book for free
Detailed descriptions and color photos of more than 300 plants organized by color and family
An introduction to the area's habitats and ecology
A glossary of botanical terms
A primer on plant characteristics and identification
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Gil Nelson is a writer, naturalist, field botanist, and educator in Thomasville, Georgia. He is a research associate in botany at the Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium at Florida State University and has written widely about Florida and the southeastern United States. His works include three field guides to Florida plants, a guide to native landscape plants, and coauthorship of two Audubon field guides. This is his tenth book. He is also the author of East Gulf Coastal Plain Wildflowers, published by The Globe Pequot Press.
Gil also teaches relational database programming and geographical information systems, with a particular interest in the design, development, and uses of relational database technology and GIS for the management and use of biological and botanical data. His hobbies and interests include hiking, wildflower and landscape photography, the phytogeography of the southeastern United States, plant ecology, and the structure and composition of natural vegetative communities.
Gil also teaches relational database programming and geographical information systems, with a particular interest in the design, development, and uses of relational database technology and GIS for the management and use of biological and botanical data. His hobbies and interests include hiking, wildflower and landscape photography, the phytogeography of the southeastern United States, plant ecology, and the structure and composition of natural vegetative communities.
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This review is from: Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers: A Guide to Common Wildflowers of the Coastal Regions of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Northeastern Florida (Wildflower Series) (Paperback)
I highly recommend this book to any wildflower enthusiasts in the region. A great addition to anyone's reference library.
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The South Atlantic Coastal Plain is an elongated 25-million-acre subunit of the more expansive Southeastern Coastal Plains, a collection of physiographic subdivisions of eastern North America that stretches from extreme southeastern Virginia southward across northern Florida and west to easternmost Texas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
field identification character, southern mixed hardwood forests, wet flatwoods, sandhill pinelands, scientific epithet, moist pinelands, other disturbed sites, wet roadside ditches, plain wildflowers, wet pinelands, sandy roadsides, considered imperiled, wet roadsides, aster family, dry pinelands, weedy tendencies, moist roadsides, spur petal, central disk surrounded, sandy woodlands, flowering scape, critically imperiled, erect perennial herb, disk flowers, sandy pinelands Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bloom Season, South Carolina, North Carolina, United States, Pea Family, Atlantic Coastal Plain, Orchid Family, Southeastern Coastal Plains, North America, American Indians, Broomrape Family, Longleaf Pinelands, Fall Line Hills, Butterfly Pea, Hooker's Milkwort, Rose Family, Bristly Locust, Carolina Rose, Common Grass-Pink, Fringed Meadow Beauty, Helmet Skullcap, Southern Colicroot, Swamp Rose, Whitetop Sedge, Clasping Milkweed New!
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The South Atlantic Coastal Plain is an elongated 25-million-acre subunit of the more expansive Southeastern Coastal Plains, a collection of physiographic subdivisions of eastern North America that stretches from extreme southeastern Virginia southward across northern Florida and west to easternmost Texas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
field identification character, southern mixed hardwood forests, wet flatwoods, sandhill pinelands, scientific epithet, moist pinelands, other disturbed sites, wet roadside ditches, plain wildflowers, wet pinelands, sandy roadsides, considered imperiled, wet roadsides, aster family, dry pinelands, weedy tendencies, moist roadsides, spur petal, central disk surrounded, sandy woodlands, flowering scape, critically imperiled, erect perennial herb, disk flowers, sandy pinelands Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bloom Season, South Carolina, North Carolina, United States, Pea Family, Atlantic Coastal Plain, Orchid Family, Southeastern Coastal Plains, North America, American Indians, Broomrape Family, Longleaf Pinelands, Fall Line Hills, Butterfly Pea, Hooker's Milkwort, Rose Family, Bristly Locust, Carolina Rose, Common Grass-Pink, Fringed Meadow Beauty, Helmet Skullcap, Southern Colicroot, Swamp Rose, Whitetop Sedge, Clasping Milkweed New!
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- North Carolina Disasters & Catastrophes! (Carole Marsh North Carolina Books) by Carole Marsh in Front Matter, page 89, and page 118
- The Natural Gardens of North Carolina (Chapel Hill Book) by B. W. Wells in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States by Wilbur H. Duncan in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas by Albert E. Radford in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina by Douglas Alan Rayner in Back Matter
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