Common Marsh, Underwater and Floating-leaved Plants of the United States and Canada (Dover Books on Nature)

Hotchkiss, Neil

ISBN 10: 048622810X / ISBN 13: 9780486228105

Editore: Dover Publications (edition Revised), 2011

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• Titolo: Common Marsh, Underwater and Floating-leaved Plants of the United States and Canada (Dover Books on Nature)
• Editore: Dover Publications (edition Revised)
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 048622810X
• ISBN 13: 9780486228105
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: Revised.
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

What is that plant you've seen in a marshy ditch alongside the road? What is that strange-looking vegetation that you see over the side of your canoe, or along the shore? Without this book, you may have difficulty in finding answers to such questions, for although arrowheads and cattails are known by most sportsmen, birdwatchers, wild-food buffs and biologists on their trips to the marshes of America, guides for other common plants are not easily available. In this unique collection, 295 illustrated marsh, underwater and floating-leaved plants are compiled in an up-to-date guide for accurate and quick identification.
The guide contains two publications prepared by Neil Hotchkiss, Wildlife Biologist of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, for the Department of the Interior: Common Marsh Plants of the United States and Canada, with 164 illustrated species, and Underwater and Floating-leaved Plants of the United States and Canada, with 156. Twenty-five plants which take on new forms according to environment appear in both publications.
Plants are arranged in groups to appearance; illustrations within the general groupings make quick identification possible. At least one scale drawing at life, 1/2, 1/4, or 1/16 size is given for each plant; most plants are illustrated by three separate drawings showing full view, seed pods or flowers, and other distinguishing marks. Common name, scientific name, synonyms, habitat, distribution, size, and identifying characteristics such as stem, leaves, seeds, scales, spikelets, flowers, and growing pattern are given for each species with resemblances between species clarified. Wide borders allow ample space for notes made either in the field or at home. This book will increase the pleasure of a walk through the marsh and will give a closer look at the plants that grow in the marshes, float on the water or grow underneath it.

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Introduction "Group 1. Plants with upright or upslanted leafless stems; or similar plants with long, narrow leaves coming from the lower part of the stems; flowers usually individually inconspicious, but crowded and numerous" Softstem Bulrush Hardstem Bulrush Slender Bulrush Southern Bulrush Swamp Bulrush Saltmarsh Fimbristylis Baltic Rush Soft Rush Soldier Rush Needlerush Bog Rush Blackgrass Seaside Arrowgrass Southern Arrowgrass Flowering-rush Common Threesquare Olney Threesquare Torrey Threesquare Ricefield Bulrush Bluntscale Bulrush Rush Fuirena Spikerushes Slender Spikerush Dwarf Spikerush Trianglestem Spikerush Water Spikerush Common Spikerush Walking Spikerush Blunt Spikerush Saltmarsh Spikerush Squarestem Spikerush Northern Jointed Spikerush Southern Jointed Spikerush Gulf Spikerush Cattails Broadleaf Cattail Narrowleaf Cattail Southern Cattail Blue Cattail Burreeds Big Burreed Eastern Burreed Shining Burreed Slender Burreed Floating Burreed Little Burreed Sweetflag Swamp-lily "Group 2. Plants with upright or upslanted stems with grass-like leaves on two sides (one plane); flowers individually inconspicuous between scales which overlap in two rows to form spikelets, the spikelets clustered toward the top of stems" Phragmites Tufted Hairgrass Whitetop Reed Mannagrass Western Mannagrass Low Mannagrass Water Mannagrass Sharpscale Mannagrass Bearded Sprangletop Wildrice Giant Cutgrass Rice Wild Millet Walter Millet Reed Canarygrass Rice Cutgrass Sloughgrass Saltgrass Coast Dropseed Giant Setaria Sacciolepis Jointgrass Maidencane Water Panicum Prairie Cordgrass Big Cordgrass Saltmeadow Cordgrass Saltmarsh Cordgrass California Cordgrass "Group 3. Plants with upright stems with grasslike leaves on three sides; flowers individually inconspicuous between scales which usually overlap in several rows to form spikelets, the spikelets clustered toward the top of stems" Sedges Beaked Sedge Slough Sedge Lake Sedge Lyngbye Sedge Pacific Sedge Saltmarsh Sedge Alkali Bulrush Tuberous Bulrush Saltmarsh Bulrush Redroot Cyperus Twig-rush Sawgrass Everglade Beakrush "Group 4. Plants with uprights, sprawling, or horizontal stems with singly placed, non-grasslike, lance-shaped or wider, untoothed leaves; flowers clustered at the end of stems or single or clustered at the base of leaves" Smartweeds Water Smartweed Marsh Smartweed Nodding Smartweed Swamp Smartweed Dotted Smartweed Southern Smartweed Hairy Smartweed Halberdleaf Tear-thumb Longleaf Mudplantain Roundleaf Mudplantain Floating Waterprimrose Marsh Dayflower Marsh Boltonia Atlantic Sea-blite Tidemarsh Waterhemp Annual Saltmarsh Aster Perennial Saltmarsh Aster Group 5. Plants with upright, sprawling, or horizontal stems with paired, whorled, or otherwise clustered, lance-shaped or wider, untoothed leaves; or plants with leafless stems and paired or whorled branches; flowers single or clustered at the end of stems, in stalked heads along stems, or single or clustered at the base of leaves Marestail Water Horsetail Glassworts Slender Glasswort Bigelow Glasswort Woody Glasswort California Glasswort Marsh-purslane Goldenpert Purple Loosestrife Swamp Loosestrife Waterwillow Creeping Rush Lemon Bacopa Alligatorweed Jaumea Saltwort Saltflat-grass Frankenia Seaside Gerardia Saltmarsh Loosestrife Little Sea-pink Big Sea-pink Coast Milkweed Sea-oxeye Coast Bacopa "Group 6. Plants with both their lance-shap or wider, untoothed leaves and the stalks of their solitary flowers or flower clusters coming from underground stems or underwater stems" Spatterdock American Lotus Arrow-arum Pickerelweed Arrowheads Northern Arrowhead Broadleaf Arrowhead Engelmann Arrowhead Hooded Arrowhead Long-barb Arrowhead Bur Arrowhead Slender Arrowhead Delta Duckpotato Bulltongue Broadleaf Waterplantain Narrowleaf Waterplantain Upright Burhead Creeping Burhead Damasonium Sea-lavender Goldenclub American Frogbit Water-hyacinth Waterlettuce Group 7. Plants with tooth-edged to deeply divided leaves or leaflets Marsh Cinquefoil Waterparsnip Bulblet Waterhemlock Nodding Beggarticks Marsh Mermaidweed Cutleaf Mermaidweed Parrotfeather Water-parsley Marsh Hibiscus Saltmarsh Pluchea Mock-bishopweed Marsh Eryngo Saltmarsh Mallow