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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 582.130974 EAN: 9780316604420 ISBN: 0316604429 Label: Little, Brown and Company Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 490 Publication Date: April 13, 1989 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Studio: Little, Brown and Company Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Detailed but hard to followIt's a great book for serious wildflower lovers, but it's somewhat hard to follow. As a non-professional plant lover I found the book useful, but had a difficult time finding the info I needed without a lot of page turning. Rating:  - You will like this bookAlthough this fieldbook at first seems a first cousin to the Peterson guide it differs in one very significant way -- it has a key which even those who never took (or don't remember) Plant Taxonomy 390 can use without frustration-- what does "hispid" mean anyway? Anyone can key a plant to at least a short list of probables without difficulty. And the drawings (which I usually prefer to photographs) are clean and clear. My approach (having had Plant Taxonomy many years ago) is to have lots of books ... Read More Rating: - Highly recommendedIf you are looking to identify wildflowers of the northeast, this is the best pocket field guide out there. It includes more species than other pocket field guides and uses a systematic approach of identification. It may take a little practice to get a handle on the system, but once you do, you will be identifying wildflowers in lickety-split time. There will be no more leafing through 50+ pages of yellow flowers to find the one you're looking at. This book will walk you through a key ... Read More Rating: - Only for Northeast USA wildflowers!This is a nice system for systematically identifying a wildflower, BUT it only covers the Northeast from Wisconsin down to Kentucky over to Virginia and up to Maine. Rating: - RI Master Gardener Advanced EducationAs the RI Master Gardener Advanced Education Coordinator, I have used this book for two years in workshops delivered to our membership. The "Locator Key" and identification system is easy to use (easier than using the weed identification systems) and the drawings and descriptions are clear. Would recommend to anyone interested in identifying wildflowers or "weeds." 
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