This beautifully illustrated work is an invaluable reference which includes entries on more than 300 families of flowering plants, from Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae. Entries on each family consist of concise and readable accounts of the distribution, diagnostic features, classification, and economic uses of its members. More than 200 family entries are illustrated in full color, as are the comprehensive glossary and the informative introduction to the forms, structure, ecology, uses, and classification of flowering plants. Originally published in 1978, this new edition has been updated and corrected by Professor Heywood--one of the world's top authorities-- and is arranged taxonomically. The book serves as a classic reference that will be valued by naturalists, horticulturists, botanists, and everyone who enjoys the colorful elegance of plants.
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"Approximately 200 of the families are represented by exquisite, detailed, color illustrations that make the book well worth a place on a cocktail table. . . . suitable for any botany library, amateur or professional, personal or institutional." --C.T. Mason, Jr. (University of Arizona), Choice
"I was very happy to find this wonderful reference back in print. It is certain to excite another generation of plant lovers about the diversity of flowering plants." --Brittonia
"The exciting image of plants that this book presents could encourage students interested in plants to pursue careers in horticulture or other plant sciences. It is a fine addition to any horticultural library, and a book that anyone could turn to for the pleasure and enjoyment of learning more about flowering plants from around the world." --HortScience
"A quick, readable reference. . .Visually captivating. . . Detailed distribution maps vividly show global locations of all the plants."--American Herb Association Quarterly
"I was very happy to find this wonderful reference back in print. It is certain to excite another generation of plant lovers about the diversity of flowering plants." --Brittonia
"The exciting image of plants that this book presents could encourage students interested in plants to pursue careers in horticulture or other plant sciences. It is a fine addition to any horticultural library, and a book that anyone could turn to for the pleasure and enjoyment of learning more about flowering plants from around the world." --HortScience
"A quick, readable reference. . .Visually captivating. . . Detailed distribution maps vividly show global locations of all the plants."--American Herb Association Quarterly
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V. H. Heywood, Chief Scientist, Plant Conservation (retired), World Conservation Union.
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Great general reference,
This review is from: Flowering Plants of the World (Hardcover)
The book is a good, fundamental reference for flowering plants. I use it to supplement courses in botany and find it popular with my students. Indices & glossary are excellent, as are the figures for identifying features of reproductive and vegetative anatomy of plants.
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Intended as a coffee table book for every household, Heywood became in the 1970's the "botany bible" that opened the eyes of world-traveling naturalists to the magnificent diversity of the world's flowering plants . At long last we had a chance to identify that fantastic tropical tree and what it was used for economically. To this day, 40 years later, I consult Heywood daily with joy. I have bought crates of this book to distribute as gifts to my students. It is true that contemporary plant systematists are revolutionizing the world of plant taxonomy with new molecular data, and deride Heywood as obsolete. Family names and relationships are in a maddening confusing state of flux, will change tomorrow. Heywood provides great practical and professional information under the traditional family names.
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The flowering plants, known scientifically as the class Angiospermae, are the dominant group of vascular plants on earth today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
five fused carpels, single pendulous ovule, straight embryo, axile placentas, five imbricate sepals, small embryo surrounded, chief genera, anthers obtuse, copious endosperm, three fused carpels, bearing numerous ovules, known economic uses, five free sepals, epipetalous stamens, single locule, dehiscing fruit, flower showing stamens, numerous anatropous ovules, pendulous ovules, five locules, parietal placentas, two locules, bilocular anthers, ovary crowned, showing inferior ovary Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South America, North America, South Africa, New World, Old World, New Zealand, West Indies, United States of America, Northern Hemisphere, Central America, New Guinea, West Africa, Southern Hemisphere, Sri Lanka, New Caledonia, West Indian, East Africa, Canary Islands, Indian Ocean, American Indians, New South Wales, East Indian New!
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five fused carpels, single pendulous ovule, straight embryo, axile placentas, five imbricate sepals, small embryo surrounded, chief genera, anthers obtuse, copious endosperm, three fused carpels, bearing numerous ovules, known economic uses, five free sepals, epipetalous stamens, single locule, dehiscing fruit, flower showing stamens, numerous anatropous ovules, pendulous ovules, five locules, parietal placentas, two locules, bilocular anthers, ovary crowned, showing inferior ovary Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South America, North America, South Africa, New World, Old World, New Zealand, West Indies, United States of America, Northern Hemisphere, Central America, New Guinea, West Africa, Southern Hemisphere, Sri Lanka, New Caledonia, West Indian, East Africa, Canary Islands, Indian Ocean, American Indians, New South Wales, East Indian New!
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