Plant Identification


Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan
The Audubon Society Pocket Guides; Familiar Flowers of North America
Identifying Trees: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America
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The Great Savanna
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Beyond Beauty: Hunting the Wild Blue Poppy
Baskets and Calabashes, Palms and People  Crafts and Technologies: SomeTraditional Craftsmen and Women of the Western Grasslands of Cameroon. (Part 3) Utensils for Everyday Life
Field Guide to Common Trees & Shrubs of East Africa
Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests
Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
Medicinal Herbs of the Rocky Mountains: A Field Guide to Common Healing Plants
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
As I grow wiser and more skeptical, I realize that almost everything in nomenclature comes full circle. The question remains whether I can outlast the taxonomists.
Michael A. Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses

Bean mentions that the tree does not flower until 30 to 40 years of age. American references have stated 10 to 14 years. All authors, including this one, tend to pass along time-honored information without determining, first hand, the actual response in question.
Michael Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propogation and Uses

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