North American Range Plants (Fifth edition)

Stubbendieck, James; Hatch, Stephan L. & Butterfield, Charles H.

ISBN 10: 0803292430 / ISBN 13: 9780803292437

Editore: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London, 1997

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Fifth edition, illustrated with attratctive line drawings, large octavo, pp xvi, 501, bottom corners curved slightly from sitting on a shelf awkwardly, paperback, covers slightly faded, a remainder mark on the fore-edge. [North American Range Plants has established itself as an essential source in the identification of important range plants. The fifth edition, which includes fifteen new plants, reflects increased interest in wetland plants as well as changes in nomenclature and refinement of distribution information. The two hundred plants described were selected on the basis of their abundance, desirability, or poisonous properties. These plants comprise the Master Plant List for the International Range Plant Identification contest, sponsored by the Society for Range Management. Each plant description includes characteristics for identification, an illustration of the plant with enlarged plant parts, and a general distribution map for North America. Each species description includes nomenclature, life span, origin, season of growth, inflorescence, flower or other reproductive parts, vegetative parts, and habitat.

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• Titolo: North American Range Plants (Fifth edition)
• Editore: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0803292430
• ISBN 13: 9780803292437
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Disegnatore: Rhodes, Kelly L.; Jansen, Bellamy Parks; Meier, Debra
• Edizione: quinta edizione o successive
• Condizione: Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Floras
  • Grasses

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Riassunto

North American Range Plants has established itself as an essential source in the identification of important range plants. The fifth edition, which includes fifteen new plants, reflects increased interest in wetland plants as well as changes in nomenclature and refinement of distribution information. The two hundred plants described were selected on the basis of their abundance, desirability, or poisonous properties. These plants comprise the Master Plant List for the International Range Plant Identification contest, sponsored by the Society for Range Management.

 

Each plant description includes characteristics for identification, an illustration of the plant with enlarged plant parts, and a general distribution map for North America. Each species description includes nomenclature, life span, origin, season of growth, inflorescence, flower or other reproductive parts, vegetative parts, and habitat.

Informazioni sull?autore

James Stubbendieck is a professor of rangeland ecology in the Department of Agronomy and Charles H. Butterfield is a research technologist with the Range Science Program, both at the University of Nebraska. Stephan L. Hatch is a professor of grass taxonomy and curator of the S. M. Tracy Herbarium at Texas A & M University.