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Best for the Field,
By melystu (near Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers: When & Where to Find Them (Spiral-bound)
This book--mine's the older 1977 ed. , 5th printing--is far and away THE BEST field guide to take to the woods on your walk! The photographs are excellent closeups for identification purposes, the descriptions are short, fact-filled, seasonal, and to the point. The book is site-specific to the Southern Appalachians. I have other books purporting to help me identify plants seen in the woods, but I always end up with this one and FIND THE ANSWER! Published by the University of Tennessee Press.
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Fast & Easy-to-use Guide Organized by Bloom-Time,
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This review is from: Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers: When & Where to Find Them (Spiral-bound)
The focus of this excellent wildflower guide to flowers found in the Smokies is to tell WHERE and WHEN to find them in bloom. The book relies upon color plates for ID and is limited enough (only 144 pages) to allow a quick scan of all the photos when searching to ID that elusive flower. Although not nearly so complete as THE AUDUBON GUIDE TO EASTERN WILDFLOWERS (my overall favorite), this book has become my LOCAL favorite for use during outings in the Smokies.Wildflower enthusiasts of all types should have this book in their pocket when hiking in the Smokies. It will save you time because it focuses only on about 225 flowers found in the Smokies. If you've located in the book one or two types of flowers in bloom in the area where you are hiking then you'll be within 5 or 6 pages of the correct location for all the other flowers in bloom at that particular time! Other nice features of the book include the ring binding which allows it to open easily, the manner in which all color plates are on the right side so as to allow thumbing thru in search of the correct plate and the excellent close-up color photos of the flowers. My primary complaint is that the book doesn't offer photos of MORE species of flowers--hey there are over 1,500 species in the Smokies--but this book is rarely a disppointment for me, an avid wildflower enthusiast who spends at least one or two days/week hiking in the Smokies during warm weather months.
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Great Smokey Mountains Wildflowers,
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This review is from: Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers: When & Where to Find Them (Spiral-bound)
This book is the standard for wildflowers in the Smoley Mountains. I knew about this book before I purchased it, so I knew what to expect up front. The book is hard to find at a decent price and in excellent condition. I was able to get both so I am very pleased with my purchase. I have been photographing wildflowers for a few years and good books on the subject are a plus. Thanks to Amazon.com I have been able to purchase several books on the subject of wildflowers with complete confidence. I have never been dissapointed. Also I have purchased cameras and other products with no problems at all. Thanks, Curleyq
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