Customer Reviews

Florida Wildflowers in Their Natural Communities

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This is an easy to use guide that provides quick identification of Florida wildflowers. The organization is intuitive. Each species treatment is thorough and the photography is top notch. This user highly recomends this book.

This reference guide is nicely divided into 8 terrestrial communities: Pine Flatwoods, Sandhills and Clayhills, Scrubs, Temperate Hardwood Forests, Coastal Uplands, Rockland Pinelands, Rockland Hardwood Hammocks, and Ruderal Sites. Each community is described and further subdivided. The descriptions and pictures of the typical plants in each community are are good and nicely organized.

This guide gives a good overview of the plant communities and the wildflowers found in them, as opposed to being a field guide whose only purpose is plant identification. The arrangement by community is very handy, and there are many fine photos. While you will get a nice education on habitat from this book, the lack of a key may be off-putting to some people.

The missing key does force one to know what community he or she is in (which is the point of the book) and then requires flipping through the pictures, which makes the book a bit unwieldy for me to use in the field. Since I can finally use a key fairly well, I will likely use Taylor's guide as a supplement to my favorite keyed guide.

I live on the Treasure Coast of Florida (between Sebastian and Hobe Sound) and up till now I relied on various websites to help me ID plants. Because this method of searching is very time consuming I thought it was time to invest in a field guide.

Armed with 20+ plants already identified I used these as my starting point. My search through the index of this book concluded with 3 listings out of 20+ plants. Such low results are a tremendous disappointment!

While time consuming, I will return to the internet for more current and accurate plant identifications.

I like to take this book in the field. The organization allows me to quickly scan what flowering plants I can expect to see in the habitat I'm in. This is especially useful for a lay person who doesn't yet know how to identify family or genus by sight.

Very good reference and wonderful photos! A must for any native plant grower or nature lover!

This book is very limited. You have to look at each page to ID the flower. Some pictures are not very clear, and some do not show the leaves. If the plant you look at is not excatly like the book's pix you can't be 100% sure of the plant's ID.

item was shipped and rcvd quickly, and although it was used, the book was in GREAT condition!