Seed Identification Manual

by Alexander Campbell Martin

This book was first published by the University of California Press in 1961 and is an attempt to provide an answer to the long-standing need for reference work dealing exclusively with seed identification. The immediate aim of the manual is to help agriculturalists, foresters, wildlife biologists, and others interested in land-use programs to identify the seeds in their particular fields of interest. The authors have, in the main, restricted the content of the description to those characteristics useful for identification. The descriptions are, to the extent possible, nontechnical and therefore useful to a broader range of interests and skills.

220 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Alexander Campbell Martin (1897-1987)

Biography from the Golden Guide, Flowers, 1950 edition
ALEXANDER C. MARTIN, Ph.D., is an authority on plants used by wildlife, and on the identification of plants by seeds and fruits. He is the author of three Golden Guides, Flowers, Trees and Weeds, and for thirty years was research Biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service in the Department of Interior.
Born in Turkey of missionary parents, Dr. Martin was interested in native plants there as a child and the interest has been sustained throughout his life. At one time he worked with Luther Burbank, and hybridizing is still one of his major interests. Dr. Martin has authored several books in the field of natural history, including a manual on seed identification.