Texas Range Plants (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series) [Hardcover]

Stephan L. Hatch (Author), Jennifer Pluhar (Author), Keith Westover (Illustrator)

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" . . . one of the easiest-to-understand references I''ve seen."--Richard Mize, agribusiness editor

(Richard Mize, agribusiness editor )

About the Author

Stephan L. Hatch is professor of grass systematics and curator of the S. M. Tracy Herbarium, Texas A&M University.Jennifer Pluhar, who lives in Canyon Texas, is a range management consultant, with interests in cattle feeding and livestock investments, and a 4-H leader who has worked extensively with 4-H and FFA youth plant-identification teams. Hatch and Pluhar are in charge of the University Plant Identification Contest at the annual meetings of the international Society for Range Management.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 344 pages
• Publisher: TAMU Press (October 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890965382
• ISBN-13: 978-0890965382
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,080,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent starter book., August 15, 1999

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This review is from: Texas Range Plants (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series) (Paperback)

This book is well illustrated and can serve as an excellent resource for those wanting to know about range plants. This book would be useful to ranchers, students, laymen, and technicians. If one wanted to carry just one book to the field to identify and learn basic things about a variety of plants, this would be the one.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Local plants, May 23, 2010

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This review is from: Texas Range Plants (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series) (Paperback)

I was happy to find a reference book to cover many of the plants not covered in wild flower,tree,or shrub field guides. In some of the field guides they will say that this so-and -so plant may be "poison". If a plant is poisonous this book will tell you what the compound is and how much it takes to kill your cows, sheep, or goats. The illustrations are black and white pencil drawings so its not just a flower with a fuzzy green glob. You can make out the leaf and stem shape.
The author can get technical for me sometimes but most anyone can get lots of info here. Also, I didn't know there are so many kinds of grass.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Range plants, November 9, 2008

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This review is from: Texas Range Plants (W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series) (Paperback)

This is a great supplement to any library of someone who needs to identify plants in Texas. It isn't all inclusive, but there are very few books that come close to being all inclusive. It's helped with some plants that weren't in other books in my library.