Flora of North America: North of Mexico Volume 20: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, Part 7: Asteraceae, Part 2 [Hardcover]

Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Flora of North America North of Mexico | Publication Date: May 11, 2006

To be published in 30 volumes, Flora of North America represents the first and only comprehensive taxonomic guide to the extraordinary diversity of plant life blanketing our continent north of Mexico. The collaborative effort of more than 30 major U.S. and Canadian botanical institutions, this ground-breaking scholarly series revises and synthesizes literally thousands of floristic monographs and regional floras published over the last three centuries.

In addition, this series distills the original herbarium, laboratory, and field work of hundreds of contributors -- all of them leading botanists and taxonomic authorities who have joined forces to develop this century's premier tool for identifying, understanding, and conserving North America's priceless floristic heritage.

Concise, easy to use, and beautifully bound and illustrated, Flora of North America is an indispensable working resource for botanists, conservationists, ecologists, agronomists, foresters, range and land managers, horticulturists -- anyone with a series interest in the distribution, habitat, morphology, and survival of the wide-ranging plant life around us.

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Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Following the first two volumes (LJ 1/94), which covered background essays and ferns, Volume 3 of the Flora covers the magnolia and hamamelid families: 128 genera and 741 species of plants. The scope of the set now has expanded to 30 planned volumes, with Volumes 3-26 to cover angiosperms, 27-29 to cover bryophytes, and Volume 30 as an index/bibliography. Libraries wanting the most complete and up-to-date scientific overview of plant families in North America will buy the complete set. For those with a special interest in magnolias, witch hazels, and related species (laurels, peppers, buttercups, barberries, poppies, elms, walnuts, mulberries, myrtle, and more), Volume 3 can stand alone, with its own taxonomic keys, index, and bibliography. This is a scientific overview of the species, not a gardening guide; identification keys, a summary of growth habitats and characteristics, genetic analysis, economic uses, and conservation status are all presented. Taxa believed to have become extinct in the past 500 years are also included. There are also a few black-and-white illustrations. Further information about the Flora of North America Project is available at . Highly recommended for specialized botany and horticulture collections.?Laura E. Lipton, Miller Horticulture Lib., Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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"Likely to be regarded as a major event in botany. Its volumes provide more authoritative and useful treatments than do the regional accounts, which hitherto have been the only available source for scientists, conservationists, land managers, agriculturalists, foresters, prospectors for medicinal plants, and amateur naturalists." --The New York Times

"What you get here is a lot more than what you see.... authoritative. This is a dictionary of plant species, the working vocabulary of plant biodiversity, as essential to its knowing, productive users as any big dictionary." --Scientific American

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 690 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (May 11, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195305647
• ISBN-13: 978-0195305647
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,272,680 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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