Weeds of the West (Paperback)

by Larry C. Burrill (Author), Steven A. Dewey (Author), David W. Cudney (Author), B. E. Nelson (Author), Tom D. Whitson (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

Review
Weeds of the West is an extensive (640 pages), easy-to-use guide written by seven Extension Specialists and published by the Wyoming Agricultural Extension. 900 color photographs show more than 350 weed species occurring in 12 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The authors describe early growth stages, stages of maturity, and features for the positive identification for each weed. An invaluable reference for all serious gardeners and commercial farmers. The Able Gardener Kathleen Yeomans Storey Communications Schoolhouse Road, Pownal, VT 05261 0-88266-789-0 $16. 95 (pb) 0-88266-790-4 $27. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Description
Weeds of the West is the foremost guide to identifying weeds in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. This easy-to-use guide contains over 900 brilliant color photographs showing the early growth stages, mature plants and features for positive identification of each weed discussed. Over one-third of this edition is newly revised and expanded with over 300 new photos. This full-color, easy-to-use guide describes important weed species from parsley to sunflower in the Western United States

Learning to identify unwanted plants around the home, farm or ranch will be much easier with this book published by the Western Society of Weed Science and co-sponsored by the Cooperative Extension of the United States. Weeds of the West will help you identify weeds that compete with native plants, horticultural and agricultural crops, as well as those that can poison livestock and people. Weeds shown were chosen for abundance, ability to reproduce, compete, spread rapidly. Descriptions, habitats and characteristics of each plant are also included in this handy reference guide.

Written by seven Extension Specialists and published by the University of Wyoming Agricultural Extension, Weeds of the West is the incomparable guide to everything you need to know about western weeds.

Product Details

• Paperback: 630 pages
• Publisher: Western Society of Weed Science; 5th edition (January 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0941570134
• ISBN-13: 978-0941570138
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #181,429 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overpriced by the phony publisher, March 23, 2004

By	Kenneth Asher (Bend, OR United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Weeds of the West (Paperback)

This is a wonderful book. The only problem is it is badly overpriced by "DIANE" who states she is the publisher.
The real publisher is the University of Wyoming and this 9th edition priced at $45.00. The real publisher didn't realize they had to get a new ISBN number for the new edition. So the 9th edition bears the old ISBN number 0-941570-134.
Perhaps Amazon could assign a number with the publisher's correct price of $45, not $60.00

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Photos extraodinaire!! Easy to identify., November 10, 2001

By	B. J. Lewis "write design" (Eagle Point, OR United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A must-have book for gardeners, hikers, rural residences. 100% color photos make it great to ID weeds about the house. Categorized by family so pretty easy to find. Books that have art renderings of plants just don't ID a plant for me, and I'm an artist!
Any negative about the book would be that it could use more descriptive type about the plant.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my very favorite books, May 19, 1999

By A Customer

I acquired this book when it was first published and have been recommending it to everyone. Great pictures. After planting packages of wildflower seeds I did not know which of the little plants were the flowers or weeds. This book straightened me out. The baby weeds were so cute, I was going to remove the wrong plants. My copy is almost worn out, the cover is falling off. I wish they would use better glue. (And I do treat my books well)