The Field Guide to Weeds [Spiral-bound]

Lawrence J. Crockett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2004

After examining this lushly illustrated, eye-opening guide, no one will think of weeds as unattractive and unwanted plants anymore. Based on the book Wildly Successful Plants, by Lawrence J. Crockett, and featuring both photos and Joanne Bradley’s original line drawings, it includes wonderful insights and fascinating anecdotes. As you learn more about their characteristics, you’ll begin to admire such varieties as Honeysuckle, Morning Glory, Black-Eyed Susan, and other beautiful, useful, and fast-growing wild flowers generally classified as weeds. Find out all you need to know about Japanese Barberry, Blackberry Bramble, Tall Field Buttercup, and more. Every entry includes the common name, habitat, range, season, and a wealth of other facts.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 224 pages
• Publisher: Main Street; Spi edition (March 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402706944
• ISBN-13: 978-1402706943
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,288,908 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #17 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Biological Sciences > Botany
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent weed identification book, February 22, 2011

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When I purchased this book I was looking for one that described most of the common weeds, gave their common names, and had pictures or drawings of each weed so I could identify them. This book does more than that. It covers around 94 of the common weeds in North America. Each weed in the book has it's scientific name, a list of the common names it is typically called, a photo of the flower or seed head, a drawing of the plant (very good artwork), and several paragraphs of information about the weed, along with it's origin, range, habitat, and season. It contains plants like: common blackberry, poison ivy, foxtail, wild vetch, ragweed, plantain, reedgrass, downy bromegrass, tansy, mullein, and some that aren't always considered weeds, such as perennial ryegrass and red clover. You can take this book and walk around outside and identify many of the wild plants you see. If you want a field guide to weeds, I think this is a very good one.