Screen LibraryGrasses, sedges, rushes : an identification guide /
This elegant and easy-to-use guide is an updated and amended revision of Lauren Brown's seminal Grasses: An Identification Guide, which was first published in 1979. While maintaining the spirit and goals of the original edition--a portable, straightforward, and user-friendly guide for naturalis...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This elegant and easy-to-use guide is an updated and amended revision of Lauren Brown's seminal Grasses: An Identification Guide, which was first published in 1979. While maintaining the spirit and goals of the original edition--a portable, straightforward, and user-friendly guide for naturalists and plant enthusiasts--the new edition features more than one hundred grasses, sedges, and rushes that are presented with line drawings and color photographs, concise descriptions, and details on the uses of various plants throughout history.-- |
| Item Description: | "An earlier version of this book was published as Grasses : an identification guide in 1979 by Houghton Mifflin Company"--Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 250 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300236774 (paperback) : 0300236778 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | QK495 |
| CLC: | Q949.71 |
| Call Number: | Q949.71/B878-1 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- The American prairie: ecology and history -- How to use this book -- Glossary -- Identification key -- Species descriptions and illustrations -- Some identification aids -- A word on rare and invasive species -- If you do not find something in this book. |