More than 500 excellent color photos and easy-to-follow keys will help you identify nearly 700 wildflower and fern species found in Kentucky and surrounding states (including Southern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, Western West Virginia and Virginia, Northern Tennessee, and Eastern Missouri).
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"A most excellent guide." -- Choice
"The definitive volume on wildflowers in Kentucky." -- Southern Living
"The definitive volume on wildflowers in Kentucky." -- Southern Living
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Good guide to KY Wildflowers and Ferns,
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This review is from: A Guide to the Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky (Kentucky Nature Studies) (Hardcover)
This is a very good book showing many of the native wildflowers in the state of Kentucky. The pictures are very good and the plant information and descriptions are excellent. There are a few photos that are not ideal for identifying some species and the book arrangement is somewhat clumsy if this book is used as a field guide. It would have been better if the flowers were arranged by color. Other than that, this is a great book and a popular pick of my students when they have to identify native species for a wildflower collection.
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excellent beginner's book,
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This review is from: A Guide to the Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky (Kentucky Nature Studies) (Hardcover)
Not only is this book an excellent source for identifying Kentucky wildflowers, it is an excellent source for identifying wildflowers, ferns, etc., for the Central Basin and Smoky Mountains in Tennessee as well.
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wonderful plant book,
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This review is from: A Guide to the Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky (Kentucky Nature Studies) (Hardcover)
This is a very good book for plant enthusiasts living in and around Kentucky. It is a classic in the field. Very useful and well written.
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Acquaintance with wildflowers and ferns can be a source of deep enjoyment, a pleasure available to all and not exclusively a privilege of botanists. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mesophytic woods, noncalcareous areas, sporangium clusters, woods throughout the state, eastern knobs, dry open woods, open oak woods, united corolla, rich moist woods, infrequent elsewhere, fern family, noncalcareous soil, woodland borders, corolla lobes, figwort family, bluebell family, upper axils, involucral bracts, symmetrical flowers, waterleaf family, perianth parts, winged petioles, fragile fern, pink family, spreading lobes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mississippian Plateau, Cumberland Plateau, Inner Bluegrass, United States, Cumberland Mountains, Late April-early May, Gray's Manual, New York, Series Seven, Eighth Edition, June Another, Late March-early April, Series Three, July Another, Late May-early June, May Fruit, North America, Late July-August, Late September-October, The Indian New!
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Acquaintance with wildflowers and ferns can be a source of deep enjoyment, a pleasure available to all and not exclusively a privilege of botanists. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mesophytic woods, noncalcareous areas, sporangium clusters, woods throughout the state, eastern knobs, dry open woods, open oak woods, united corolla, rich moist woods, infrequent elsewhere, fern family, noncalcareous soil, woodland borders, corolla lobes, figwort family, bluebell family, upper axils, involucral bracts, symmetrical flowers, waterleaf family, perianth parts, winged petioles, fragile fern, pink family, spreading lobes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mississippian Plateau, Cumberland Plateau, Inner Bluegrass, United States, Cumberland Mountains, Late April-early May, Gray's Manual, New York, Series Seven, Eighth Edition, June Another, Late March-early April, Series Three, July Another, Late May-early June, May Fruit, North America, Late July-August, Late September-October, The Indian New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Ohio River (Rivers of North America) by Tom Jackson on page 6
- The Mississippi River (Rivers of North America) by Jen Green on page 6
- Flora of West Virginia by P. D. Strausbaugh on page 327
- Northern Kentucky (KY) (Black America) by Eric R. Jackson on page 6
- Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas by Albert E. Radford on page 327
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- Appalachian Wildflowers by Thomas E. Hemmerly in Back Matter
- Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky by Thomas G. Barnes in Front Matter
- Gardening with Native Wild Flowers by Samuel B. Jones Jr. in Back Matter
- Gardening for the Birds by Thomas G. Barnes on page 93
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