This guide describes 590 species, with detailed information on flowering season, related species, range, and habitat. More than 100 plant drawings supplement these descriptions, and more than 200 color photographs show flowers as they appear in the field.
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Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars. These editions include updated material by Michael O'Brien, Paul Lehman, Bill Thompson III, Michael DiGiorgio, Larry Rosche, and Jeffrey A. Gordon.
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: Northern Arizona and New Mexico to British Columbia (Peterson Field Guide) (Paperback)
I ordered this book in preparation for my own trip to Colorado & Wyoming because I love my Peterson's Guide for Wildflowers for the Eastern US. This was a horrible disappointment. The flowers are organized by botanical families and species, instead of the usual organization by color and appearance. The key in the back is supposed to be organized by pairs of questions, but the numbering system is confusing beyond use and whoever put it together apparently doesn't know how to indent. I hope to prevent someone else from wasting their money on this book.
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: Northern Arizona and New Mexico to British Columbia (Peterson Field Guide) (Paperback)
I have to agree with Laura. I purchased several books in preparation to the Colorado San Juans and this was far and away the worst field guide I have ever bought. The few genera and species that are pictured and described are OK, but how do you do justice to the entire mustard family by including only 3 genera? The key is a joke for us casual enthusiasts.
Peterson field guides can be excellent - I love my Southwestern and Texas Wildflower Guide, although it too needs updating of botanical names.
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This review is from: A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: Northern Arizona and New Mexico to British Columbia (Peterson Field Guide) (Paperback)
I agree completely with Laura Gifford's comments. The organization by family rather than by color and appearance is unhelpful for the amateur who really just wants a quick ID. The pictures aren't very clear either. The Peterson Guide to Eastern Wildflowers is the way this guide should have been organized.
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Description: This cattail with flat straplike leaves (3-6 ft. long) and a spongy, jointless, unbranched stem is not easily confused with any other plant except those of the same genus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
half dozen occur, higher mts, little forage value, barbed prickles, flowering season, capillary bristles, involucral bracts, clasping leaves, underground rootstocks, leaflike bracts, compound umbels, snow recedes, lowest valleys, whitish flowers, fleshy taproot, dense raceme, ovary inferior, numerous stamens, long raceme, unbranched stem, corolla lobes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Mexico, Rocky Mts, Buttercup Family, Evening Primrose, Figwort Family, White Phlox, Dogtooth Violet, American Indians, Leafy Spurge, Moss Campion, South Dakota, Wild Hyacinth, Yellow Fritillary, Big Sagebrush, Arrowleaf Balsamroot, False Solomonseal, New Jersey, Old World, Pacific Coast, Parry Primrose, Purple Saxifrage, Scarlet Gilia, Sky Pilot, Sticky Geranium, Continental Divide New!
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Description: This cattail with flat straplike leaves (3-6 ft. long) and a spongy, jointless, unbranched stem is not easily confused with any other plant except those of the same genus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
half dozen occur, higher mts, little forage value, barbed prickles, flowering season, capillary bristles, involucral bracts, clasping leaves, underground rootstocks, leaflike bracts, compound umbels, snow recedes, lowest valleys, whitish flowers, fleshy taproot, dense raceme, ovary inferior, numerous stamens, long raceme, unbranched stem, corolla lobes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Mexico, Rocky Mts, Buttercup Family, Evening Primrose, Figwort Family, White Phlox, Dogtooth Violet, American Indians, Leafy Spurge, Moss Campion, South Dakota, Wild Hyacinth, Yellow Fritillary, Big Sagebrush, Arrowleaf Balsamroot, False Solomonseal, New Jersey, Old World, Pacific Coast, Parry Primrose, Purple Saxifrage, Scarlet Gilia, Sky Pilot, Sticky Geranium, Continental Divide New!
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