Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States
$84.95
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2016
Summary
Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States is the first field guide devoted exclusively to Georgia’s wildflowers, while also including a large number of plants found in neighboring states. Botanist Linda G. Chafin has organized the scientific information in a clear, logical, and accessible way. The guide includes nontechnical species descriptions and comparisons with similar plants, information on the habitats and natural communities that support Georgia’s wild…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780820348681 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0820348686 |
| Author: | Linda G. Chafin, Hugh Nourse, Carol Nourse |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
| Imprint: | Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 1.01kg |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 154mm x 231mm |
| Series: | Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books |
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Critics Review
Those interested in the wildflowers of the American southeast now have an impressive new field guide… to help them with their identifications.
In exploring and enjoying Georgia’s amazing diversity of wildflowers and other native flora, a good field guide is invaluable to help identify, understand and learn more about the plants. Now, we have the first guidebook ever devoted exclusively to the state — Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States… . The well-organized field guide is written and laid out in a manner that will appeal to professional botanists as well as budding naturalists — and to anyone curious about what they are seeing in Georgia’s woods, fields, wetlands and even along roadsides.
– Charles Seabrook * Atlanta Journal-Constitution *Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States is meant to be just that—a book meant to travel, literally, a field guide hikers in Georgia and nearby states can take along on their explorations, and will let them find pretty quickly what that pretty flower is, off the highway, off the Appalachian trail or deep in a south Georgia bog.
– Lee Shearer * Athens Banner-Herald *Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States… is a friendly invitation to share knowledge you have wished you had every time you’ve wondered at an unknown flower along the roadside or on a walk in the woods.
– Pete McCommons * Flagpole *Those interested in the wildflowers of the American southeast now have an impressive new field guide… to help them with their identifications.
– John E. Riutta * The Well-Read Naturalist *Linda G. Chafin
LINDA G. CHAFIN is Conservation Botanist at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia and author of Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Georgia) and Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida.
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