Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Wildflowers

Name: Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Wildflowers
Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
SKU: 11723
Price: 18.56 USD
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Author: Margaret McKenny
ISBN: 9780395911723

Edited By: Roger Tory Peterson

By: Margaret McKenny, Roger Tory Peterson

Illustrated By: Roger Tory Peterson

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / 1998 / Paperback

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Identify thousands of wildflowers that spring up in Northeastern and North-Central North America. Text descriptions are accompanied by detailed drawings that highlight important distinctives with color illustration plates in the center that showcase some in full-color. Grouped by color and plant characteristics, 1,293 species in 84 families are described & illustrated. Geographical boundaries include eastern and north-central US westward to the Dakotas and southward to North Carolina and Arkansas, and adjacent parts of Canada. 420 pages, indexed. Interior of covers show a ruler for field measurements. Common plant terms with illustrations are also shown.

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Title: Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Wildflowers
By: Margaret McKenny, Roger Tory Peterson
Illustrated By: Roger Tory Peterson
Format: Paperback
Vendor: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Publication Date: 1998
Weight: 14 ounces
ISBN: 0395911729
ISBN-13: 9780395911723
Stock No: WW11723

Publisher's Description

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Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time. 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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ROGER TORY PETERSON, one of the world’s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars.