Fern Finder: A Guide to Native Ferns of Central and Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada (Nature Study Guides)
by Anne C. Hallowell
from Wilderness Press
A pocket guide to identifying native ferns that grow in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast, and eastern Canada. Like other plant guides in the "Finders" series, "Fern Finder" is a dichotomous key, which leads the user step-by-step through a series of choices to the species being identified. Heavily illustrated with line drawings.
Plants of the Tahoe Basin: Flowering Plants, Trees, and Ferns
by Michael Graf
from University of California Press
This is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the trees, ferns, and flowering plants of the Tahoe Basin. Covering more than 600 species, many of them rare, and with over 300 color photographs, here is the most complete and up-to-date wildflower guide available for this floristically rich region.
Michael Graf discusses native higher vascular plants: flowering plants, ferns and their allies, and conifers. He covers the Tahoe region from Desolation Wilderness in the west to the Carson Range in the east and includes Donner Lake and Pass, Sagehen Meadows, Castle Peak, Pole Creek, Shirley Canyon, Granite Chief, and Alpine Meadows in the north; and Hope Valley and Carson and Luther Passes in the south. Each of these areas represents extensions of Tahoe Basin plant communities, and the entire region offers spectacular wildflower viewing.
The book is arranged taxonomically, thereby helping readers to develop a basic understanding of plant families, genera, and species. Each species account includes size, bloom period, and preferred habitat, and a full description follows, including clues for identification, notes on where to view the plant, use by humans, and additional ecological information. An introductory section discusses the evolutionary principles of plant taxonomy and the geologic and climatic history of the Tahoe Basin, its vegetative ecology, and its environmental history from the time of the Washoe Indians to the present.
An appendix provides a family key, a glossary, and drawings of plant anatomy. Throughout the book, taxonomic information is based on the 1993 edition of the Jepson Manual. With its clear descriptions, beautiful photographs, and information on everything from pollination to conservation, this book should be in the backpack of anyone who loves wildflowers, from amateur to professional field biologist.
Rocky Mountain Flora: A Field Guide for the Identification of the Ferns, Conifers, and Flowering Plants of the Southern Rocky Mountains
The Front Range of Colorado is one of America's most famous and spectacular summer playgrounds. Thousands of people from all over the nation visit our Rocky Mountains each year to enjoy the scenery and the many types of recreational activities which the region provides. Not among the least of the scenic attractions to be found here are the lavish displays of wild flowers in the mountain meadows and alpine heights, the vast expanses of cool, green forested lands, the brilliant splashes of autumn color of our aspens and sumacs, and the endless rolling grasslands of the eastern plains. There are very few places in the United States where so many types of vegetation are crowded into such a relatively small area, and where in the space of a few minutes time one may alternately bake in the climate of the desert, and shiver in the climate of the far north.
Learning to recognize the plants is a first, faltering step toward understanding a flora. Endless vistas of opportunity to study emerge as one becomes aware that we really know little about our flora beyond the identity of the species. Their life histories, uses, migrations, significance to aboriginal cultures, and so on, are largely uncharted. Amateurs can find much satisfaction and may make real contributions to science by delving deeply into some small area of the field. In Great Britain and elsewhere the amateur has always been the forefront of biological science. Darwin and Mendel were distinguished amateurs. More Americans should join their company.
The Ferns of Florida: A Reference and Field Guide (Reference and Field Guides) (Reference and Field Guides)
by Gil Nelson
from Pineapple Pr
The first field guide in 25 years to treat Florida's amazing variety of ferns. Color plates feature more than 200 images, some of which include rare species never before illustrated in color. Includes notes on each species' growth form and habit, as well as general remarks about its botanical and common names, unique characteristics, garden use, and history in Florida.
A Guide to the Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky (Kentucky Nature Studies)
by Mary E. Wharton
from University Press of Kentucky
More than 500 excellent color photos and easy-to-follow keys will help you identify nearly 700 wildflower and fern species found in Kentucky and surrounding states (including Southern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, Western West Virginia and Virginia, Northern Tennessee, and Eastern Missouri).
Field Guide to the Ferns: And Other Pteridophytes of Georgia
by Lloyd H., Jr. Snyder
from University of Georgia Press
The Ferns and Fern-Allies of Costa Rica, Panama, and the Choco (Pteridologia, No 2)
Mosses Lichens & Ferns of Northwest North America
by Dale H. Vitt
from Lone Pine Publishing
How to Know the Ferns and Fern Allies
Ferns for American Gardens
by John T. Mickel
from MacMillan Publishing Company.
Heres the definitive book on the cultivation and ornamental use of hardy ferns and their allies. Written by the Curator of Ferns at the New York Botanical Garden, it describesin an alphabetical by genus formatmore than 400 types of ferns and many more subspecies, varieties, and cultivars. Each entry explains the ferns habit, frond size, color, hardiness zones, and ease of cultivation, and more. There are also chapters on fern structure and propagation, lists of specific ferns suited to varying growing condition, and an extensive source list, bibliography, glossary, and index of common names.Filled with more than 360 full-color photographs, Ferns for American Gardens is the ideal reference for gardeners eager to acquaint themselves with this wide-ranging and adaptable group of plants.John Mickel taught botany at Iowa State University for eight years before coming to the New York Botanical Garden as Curator of Ferns in 1968. Dr. Mickelwho has written extensively on the topic of ferns
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