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Genre/Form: | Field guides Reference sources Identification |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Roger Tory Peterson; Margaret McKenny; National Audubon Society.; National Wildlife Federation.; Roger Tory Peterson Institute. |
ISBN: | 0395911729 9780395911723 0395183251 9780395183250 039508086X 9780395080863 |
OCLC Number: | 42035193 |
Notes: | "Sponsored by the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute." Includes index. |
Description: | xxviii, 420 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm. |
Contents: | Map of area covered by this book -- Introduction -- Glossary -- The families of flowers -- White or whitish flowers -- Yellow flowers -- Orange flowers -- Pink to red flowers -- Violet to blue flowers -- Green and brown flowers -- Green flowers -- Brown flowers -- Index. |
Series Title: | Peterson field guide series, 17. |
Other Titles: | Wildflowers Field guide to wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North America |
Responsibility: | Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny ; illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson. |
More information: | |
Local System Bib Number: | 36221 |
Abstract:
Grouped by color and by plant characteristics, 1,293 species in 84 families are described and illustrated. Included here are all the flowers you're most likely to encounter in the eastern and north-central U.S., westward to the Dakotas and southward to North Carolina and Arkansas, as well as the adjacent parts of Canada.
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