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Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia and the Inland Northwest Paperback – February 15, 1999

by Ray Coupe (Author), Robert Parish (Author), Dennis Lloyd (Author)

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Over 675 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens commonly found in the region from the crest of the Rockies to the Coast Mountains, including the interior of Washington and Idaho. Detailed species descriptions are combined with concise drawings and color photographs to make plant identification easy.

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This publication is far more than a field guide. It is an enjoyable read in front of the fire when the region is snowbound. It is a succinct synthesis and essential reference for ethnobotanists, ecologists, and taxonomists. It is a source of fascinating botanical history of plants, plant-hunters, and plant names. It is simply a well researched and well written book. --Discovery Magazine, Vancouver, BC

About the Author

RAY COUPE is a forest ecologist who works in the Cariboo Forest Region for the BC Ministry of Forests. He has co-authored several books and numerous scientific papers on the plants of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. ROBERTA PARISH is a research scientist with the B.C. Ministry of Forests specializing in old growth subalpine forests. DENNIS LLOYD is a research ecologist for the B.C. Ministry of Forests who has spent the past 25 years studying the ecosystems of the southern interior of British COlumbia.

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Product Details

Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Lone Pine; Fourth Impression edition (February 15, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1551052199
ISBN-13: 978-1551052199
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #324,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #204 in Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Plants > Trees
- #457 in Books > Science & Math > Nature & Ecology > Reference
- #81866 in Books > Reference

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

Indispensable resource

By Paul on February 21, 2010

Format: Paperback

This is a truly excellent book and goes well beyond the normal expected for a field guide.

This book is so comprehensive and well illustrated with drawings and extremely high quality photos that an average observer could pick nearly any plant growing in the region covered* and identify it by simply flipping through the pages looking at pictures. For the more difficult to ID species the book is arranged taxonomically, has many dichotomous keys, and similar species are compared to each other on the same or nearby pages. This is all the more amazing because the habitats of the region are quite varied but the book excels at identifying from the alpine zone to the valley floors.

This guide in addition to accounts of trees, shrubs, and wildflowers has sections for all the mosses, lichens, ferns, liverworts etc, with the same level of detail and high quality photographs, allowing the beginning naturalist to progress from the more common species to the smallest and most inconspicuous.

In addition to detailed descriptions of the plants to aid in identification, each entry provides extensive additional information about the natural history of the plant. Much information about native uses of the plants edible, medicinal, and useful. On top of this, entries also sometimes have information about how to collect and propagate species to grow them in your own yard in support of native landscaping.

Finally, the book is of reasonable portable size and printed on durable high quality pages and construction and can be easily packed in the day pack or backpack on trips of plant observation, hiking, or picnic.Read more ›

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

What a Gem.

By roman van goor on June 15, 2000

Format: Paperback

I bought this book 3 years ago and totally love it.The plant info and the photographs are beautiful. A lot of the info comes from Natives and give the readers information on what the plants can be used for like remedies for toothaches etc. The photographs, over 1000 of them, are all done in colour and are absolutely beautiful. I would have paid 3 times the amount for this book. A must for the outdoorsman.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Very useful

By Right Here on October 23, 2009

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I already owned Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast by Pojar et al., but was sad I couldn't use it once I went over the pass. This book fills in my plant field guide gap! I haven't had the chance yet to use it as extensively as I've used Pojar, but it looks like the same useful format, clear photos, and descriptions of native uses and where the common and scientific names came from. The book is arranged first by growth form (tree, shrub, forb, etc.) and then taxonomically. So if I'm looking up a forb, I generally have to flip through almost the entire forb section to find what I'm looking for, but I'm really trying to get better at recognizing what family a plant is in, so I should get better at this eventually. Overall, love the book.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

A useful book

By T. Allyn on December 27, 2010

Format: Paperback

This is a good resource and a nice compliment to "Plants Of The Pacific Northwest Coast" by Pojar & Mackinnon. The one feature missing in this book is the individual plant range maps. Those are a useful part of "Plants Of The Pacific Northwest Coast" and their addition would improve this book.

The book does a very good job of covering the plants on the eastern side of the Cascade mountains. The climates are so different on opposite sides of the mountains that NW outdoorspersons really need to have both books.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Plants for Eastern BC, Washington, Idaho, Montana

By Lisa R. on February 25, 2014

Format: Paperback Verified Purchase

Text includes information on trees, shrubs & small trees, wildflowers, grass-like plants, ferns & their allies, bryophytes and lichens. The top edges of the pages are color-coded to easily locate sections. There is at least one clear photo per plant, often with an additional photo or illustration to show flower or seed detail. Descriptions include key points emphasized in bold type and comparisons to species that might be confused with said plant. Notes for each plant indicate whether it is edible, generally how it was used by Native peoples, if plant is a native or introduced species, and derivation of meaning for names. Additional specialty information included for some plant groups in the form of a key or conspectus
The area covered is indicated with two maps. The front inside cover's map shows rivers and larger cities. The one on the inside back cover shows color coded vegetation zones: Coast/Interior Transition, Fraser Plateau, Fraser Basin, Okanagan/Thompson Plateaus, Okanagan Basin, Wet Columbia Mountains, East Kootenays, and Southern Rocky Mountain Trench. This book is written with Eastern British Columbia as it's focus, with the border being the western edge of Alberta running down into top half portion of Washington, Idaho, and Western Montana. (I have found that many plants in my area, North Central Washington, are included in this text--which indicates that lands near borders of focus of book will find this text pertinent.
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This Field Guide Rocks.

By Booboorocksout on June 1, 2015

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I'm a botany major who lives and studies in Eastern Washington. I bought this book on a whim to take with me whenever my partner and I go camping. When I took Field Botany this spring I never anticipated that this book would be very useful. After all I had my Flora of the Pacific Northwest in hand. Ha. Don't get me wrong, I love my Flora but it was written in the seventies and the pictures are all drawings. Not to mention the fact that every other word is an abbreviation or obscure botany term (did you know there are at least 5 different words to describe something as hairy?). You need a whole extra book (Plant Identification Terminology is my hero) just to interpret the descriptions for various taxa.

This field guide, while it doesn't have every species you might see out there or all of the different varieties, is awesome. The organization is wonderful; I love that you can flip to the wildflower section and look for flowers that are similar to find a family that probably has your specimen in it. Also, when you're a student who has to collect and key out 50 plants in 10 weeks and there are specific families you need to have, knowing roughly what some of the representative species of each family looks like can be a life saver. I never would have found my Hydrophyllaceae or Caryophyllaceae without this book.

While you can get more comprehensive flower guides, I also really love that it includes common trees, shrubs, ferns and even the lowly bryophytes and lichens. I mean have you been to a ponderosa pine forest? It's lichen central, and with this book you might actually learn what some of them are. Oh and did I mention there is information on family key characters, where you'll find species, as well as a nifty tree shape guide? Really this book is just great.Read more ›

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