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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 582.130979 EAN: 9780878422807 ISBN: 0878422803 Label: Mountain Press Publishing Company Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 221 Publication Date: 1992-04 Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Studio: Mountain Press Publishing Company Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Second purchase of this bookI lost my first copy of this book, so I had to replace it before the wildflowers started blooming. This is a wonderful book to have if you live or plan to visit the desert. Rating:  - a handy field guide to haveThis is an ok field guide to some, though certainly not all, of the flora in sagebrush communities. It offers good to mildly satisfactory photographs of the plants, and keys to help identify them should one get stumped (pun not intended). Rating: - Beautiful book with great field usabilityNo this book is not as comprehensive as Hitcock and Cronquist but it is so user-friendly that it is an essential for travel in sagebrush country, anywhere in the great basin. It serves as a great starting point to find a genus when a more comprehensive resourch is available for further clarification. The addition of natural history (ecosytem descriptions) and some ethnobotany make it even better. The color photos are great for quick ids of more common plants. Here in Central Oregon it is excellent. ... Read More Rating:  - locally goodI have used this book in two places: the Columbia Basin sagebrushcountry just east of the Washington cascades, and in south-central Idaho. For the Columbia Basin this book is very good. Anything that catches your eye is likely to be included, despite the book's slimness. In central Idaho the coverage is not so good, and you will end up wondering if what you're looking at is in the book. Just remember, as with all small, easy to use plant guides, there are probably five times as many plant species on the ... Read More Rating: - A Great Field Guide and ReferenceThis book is useful in many ways: as a field guide, reference, habitat identifier,uses of plants such as food or medicine (e.g. by local Native Americans), soil types, animals present, etc. It opens up the tremendous beauty of the steppe-shrub-sagebrush deserts of the West. Lovely photos. This so-called "barren land" is teeming with amazing diversity and color. It is also helpful for those of us attempting native plant (indigeous) gardens. I highly recommend it. 
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