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The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual

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Plants of Pennsylvania is an exhaustive taxonomy of the fauna of the keystone state. Both native and introduced species are included. It is not light reading, but as a reference it is excellent.

The cover artwork is not representative of the text, which contains only line drawings of good quality. The book is well indexed, by both scientific and common names, and probably is the best entrance point for most readers. I found the glossary particularly helpful. It has illustrations and definitions of hundreds of mostly obscure botanical terms that a few of us forgot and most of us never learned.

The Plants of Pennsylvania is not a beginners book for plant identification of Pennsylvania Flora, but with a little hard work and another book called Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary anyone who can use Newcomb's Wildflower Guide can use The Plants of Pennsylvania. To use this book, you need to understand how to use dichotomous key and have a basic understanding of botanical identification terminology or use the book Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary with it. If you are serious about plant identification and correctly identifying native and non-native plants in and around Pennsylvania, you need to use this book, or spend a few hundred dollars buying the botanical series called Flora of North America. The Plants of Pennsylvania is far superior and more comprehensive than those field guides with the line drawing and color pictures once you learn how to use it.

The item arrived on time, as described. It was wrapped and was packaged well. I would buy from this vender again. Waiting for spring so I can use it.

this book looks great and should be a real aid for us in identifying the trees on our farm in pennsylvania.