Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees and Shrubs of Texas (Texas Monthly Field Guide Series) [Paperback]

Delena Tull (Author), George Oxford Miller (Author)

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the photos are of good quality and, though smallfish, offer enough deatil for identifilcation purposes (Gretchen Heber American Statesman, Austin, Tx ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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• Paperback: 344 pages
• Publisher: Texas Monthly Pr (November 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877191956
• ISBN-13: 978-0877191957
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,318,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More than just a great little field guide...., June 14, 2001

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Jack B. Keller, Jr. - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs of Texas (Gulf Publishing Field Guide Series) (Paperback)

I own several field guides to Texas wildflowers, and I find this one to be the best among them. There are books with bigger and better photographs, but none come close to having the nearly 400 color photos this one has. This one also has maps of growing areas for each plant identified and very clear descriptions of each plant. It even has sections on Texas' endangered species and landscaping with native plants.

The book divides the plants into five sections for easy use. The wildflowers are further divided into colors to help find and identify them quickly. The five sections are (1) herbaceous wildflowers, (2) vines, (3) trees and shrubs, (4) cacti, agaves, yuccas and other succulents, and (5) miscellaneous plants, weeds and growths on trees. These are followed by appendices on how to identify common plant families and "plant watching" as a hobby (collecting plants, how to make a plant press and save your specimens, and a sample wildflower documentation sheet). Finally, there are three glossaries and an index.

While some might complain that the plant photographs are not printed with the specimen entries (they are grouped together in the center of the book), this is really quite handy. Each photo is numbered identically with the entries, so matching the photo with the description is really very simple. Indeed, it is quite easy to find the flower by its photo and then look up the corresponding plant description by the photo number.

All in all, this is the only wildflower field guide Texans will need. If you want a desk reference, that's another matter.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Reference for Texas and Louisiana, June 6, 2006

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Frank Dutton (Many, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees and Shrubs of Texas (Texas Monthly Field Guide Series) (Paperback)

This is a good book on wildflowers, vines, shrubs, trees of Texas and adjoining parts of Louisiana. Pictures are generally very good and are grouped by color and in a section by themselves. Each picture has a number reference and looking up the number gives you plant ID information and a range map. My biggest criticism of the book is that it just doesn't cover enough species - for what it does cover, it is excellent.