North American Wildland Plants: A Field GuideU of Nebraska Press, 2017 - 536 páginas North American Wildland Plants contains descriptions of the salient characteristics of the most important wildland plants of North America. This comprehensive reference assists individuals with limited botanical knowledge as well as natural resource professionals in identifying wildland plants. The two hundred species of wildland plants in this book were selected because of their abundance, desirability, or poisonous properties. Each illustration has been enhanced with labels pointing to key characteristics to facilitate the identification of unknown plants. Each plant description includes plant characteristics, an illustration of the plant with enlarged parts, and a general distribution map for North America. Each species description includes nomenclature; life span; origin; season of growth; inflorescence, flower or spikelet, or other reproductive parts; vegetative parts; and growth characteristics. Brief notes are included on habitat; livestock losses; and historic, food, and medicinal uses. This third edition contains additional refinements in the nomenclature, distribution, illustrations, and descriptions of plants. |
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GRASSES | 29 |
GRASSLIKE PLANTS | 207 |
FORBS AND WOODY PLANTS | 221 |
Glossary | 435 |
Abbreviations for Nomenclature Authorities | 461 |
Checklist of Wildland Plants | 473 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
North American Wildland Plants: A Field Guide James L. Stubbendieck,Neal M. Bryan,Cheryl D. Dunn,Stephan L. Hatch Vista previa limitada - 2017 |
North American Wildland Plants: A Field Guide James Stubbendieck,Stephan L. Hatch,Neal M. Bryan,Cheryl D. Dunn Vista previa limitada - 2017 |
North American Wildland Plants: A Field Guide James L. Stubbendieck,Stephan L. Hatch,Neal M. Bryan,Cheryl D. Dunn Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
3–6 mm long abaxially abundant achenes acuminate adaxially apices acute basal bases blades botanist branches cattle cespitose characteristics growth habit ciliate cm long cm tall cm wide common name Cool growth form Cool inflorescence characteristics corollas culms cypselae dense diameter flat floral and fruit florets flowers forage values fruit characteristics inflorescences glabrous glumes gray grazing green growth characteristics habitats hairs hypanthiums inflorescence characteristics type involucres involute keeled lanceolate ligules livestock losses margins entire maturity medicinal midveins mm long Native Americans Native season nodes Nutt oblong obtuse open woodlands ovate panicles pedicels Perennial origin petals petiolate phyllaries pilose pistillate plants prairies pronghorn pubescent purplish racemes range of soil reproduces from seeds rhizomatous rhizomes rounded scabrous seeds floral sepals sessile sheaths sheep slender span spicate spikelets staminate starts growth stems subequal tomentose truncate twigs usually vegetative characteristics growth vegetative characteristics leaves veins Warm growth form Warm inflorescence characteristics