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Learn to identify wildflowers in Ohio with this handy field guide,
organized by color. With this famous field guide by award-winning
author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make wildflower
identification simple, informative, and productive. There's no need
to look through dozens of photos of wildflowers that don't grow in
Ohio. Learn about 200 of the most common and important species
found in the state. They're organized by color and then by size for
ease of use. Fact-filled information contains the particulars that
you want to know, while full-page photographs provide the visual
detail needed for accurate identification. Book Features 200
species: Only Ohio wildflowers! Simple color guide: See a purple
flower? Go to the purple section Fact-filled information and
stunning professional photographs Icons that make visual
identification quick and easy Stan's Notes, including naturalist
tidbits and facts This new edition includes updated photographs,
expanded information, and even more of Stan's expert insights. Grab
Wildflowers of Ohio Field Guide for your next outing-to help you
positively identify the wildflowers that you see.
This best-selling fungi field guide is now even better--with 30 new
North Woods species and several new fact-filled sidebars.
Exclusively for Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, Fascinating
Fungi features nearly 150 species in beautiful, detailed,
full-color illustrations. You'll meet the mushroom that vikings ate
before raids, a moose-dung-loving fungi, a mushroom that contains
rocket fuel propellant and much more!
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Cactus
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Dan Torre
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Cacti are full of contradictions. Although they can be found in
some of the harshest, driest and most barren environments on earth,
some are delicate tropical plants that grow high among the branches
of the rainforest canopy. Many examples bristle with
ferocious-looking spines, while others are completely bare. Nearly
all exhibit remarkable floral displays - some having flowers that
are even larger than the plant itself. Cacti have played a
prominent role in human history for thousands of years. Some
species were revered by ancient civilizations, playing a part in
their religious ceremonies; other varieties have been heavily
cultivated for food or for the production of the bright red dye
cochineal - which is actually derived from a parasitic insect that
feeds on the prickly pear cactus. Native to the American
continents, cacti have spread worldwide and have become an
important feature in many gardens and collections. Although not
often in the culinary forefront of people's minds, a number of
varieties of cacti are delicious to eat - it is a cactus that
produces 'dragon fruit', which is fast becoming one of the world's
more popular tropical fruits. In Cactus Dan Torre explores the
natural, cultural and social history of cacti, with particular
emphasis on how these remarkable plants have been represented in
art, literature, cinema, animation and popular culture around the
world. This is a highly original, entertaining and informative book
that will appeal to everyone with an interest in cacti.
Among Trees is for people looking to further enhance their
experience with the Japanese art of shinrin-yoku. Fully illustrated
with gorgeous photograph of the forest and its inhabitants, it
allows avid - and beginning - forest bathers to record and reflect
on their therapeutic trips into the woods. In addition to blank
pages for capturing the date, season, weather, and location of
specific outings, it will also feature simple, encouraging prompts.
These prompts will inspire the user to describe the texture or
shade of leaves, to explain the sounds of footsteps over different
materials on the trail, to draw the animal life seen and heard, and
much more. Inspirational quotes and sidebars on the benefits of
forest bathing pepper the pages for added motivation and depth.
Not since Lee's Flora of the Clyde Area (1933) has there been a
Flora covering Glasgow. This is the first ever Flora of the Glasgow
area that relates how plants have changed over time. It is based on
the results of some fifteen years' intensive research by members of
the Glasgow Natural History Society and other field botanists
working under the direction of Professor Jim Dickson, Dr Peter
Macpherson and Keith Watson. The survey led to discoveries of many
special plants, including some thought to be extinct, and revealed
sites of great scientific and conservation interest. The book also
uncovers some little known aspects of the city's natural, social
and economic history and their bearing on wild plants. The Changing
Flora of Glasgow is generously illustrated with photographs, maps,
and paintings, many of them in colour, and including several
sequences to show places and perspectives as they are now and how
they were some 250 years ago. It combines immaculate scholarship
with an accessible, entertaining style. An essential reference work
for botanists and plant lovers, it will also be a much-read
possession in homes in Glasgow and surrounding areas. With The
Changing Flora of Glasgow, you can: *Discover how and why Glasgow's
flora has changed since records began *Consult a catalogue of 1500
species *Identify plants previously thought extinct *Compare
Glasgow's plant life with that of other European cities *Explore
current conservation issues *Enjoy the lavish illustrations
All the makings of natural wonder in your backyard In 2003 Fred
Delcomyn imagined his backyard of two and a half acres, farmed for
corn and soybeans for generations, restored to tallgrass prairie.
Over the next seventeen years, Delcomyn, with help from his friend
James L. Ellis scored, seeded, monitored, reseeded, and burned
these acres into prairie. In A Backyard Prairie, they document
their journey and reveal the incredible potential of a backyard to
travel back to a time before the wild prairie was put into plow
rows. It has been said, 'Anyone can love the mountains, but it
takes a soul to love the prairie.' This book shows us how. The
first book to celebrate a smaller, more private restoration, A
Backyard Prairie offers a vivid portrait of what makes a prairie.
Delcomyn and Ellis describe selecting and planting seeds, recount
the management of a prescribed fire, and capture the prairie's
seasonal parades of colorful flowers in concert with an
ever-growing variety of animals, from the minute eastern
tailed-blue butterfly to the imperious red-winged blackbird and the
reclusive coyote. This book offers a unique account of their work
and their discovery of a real backyard, an inviting island of grass
and flowers uncovered and revealed. We often travel miles and miles
to find nature larger than ourselves. In this rich account of small
prairie restoration, Delcomyn and Ellis encourage the revival of
original prairie in our backyards and the patient, beauty-seeking
soul sleeping within ourselves.
This field guide will give nature enthusiasts instant access to the
diverse and beautiful flora of these New England states. Combining
400 color photographs with concise descriptions, it is written in
easy-to-follow nontechnical language. Color illustrations have been
carefully selected for their scientific accuracy and their
aesthetic quality.Comprehensive in scope, this guide book offers
descriptions of commonly encountered, rare, and even protected
species not seen in other guides. The authors provide keys to each
species based on observable characteristics of color, flower shape,
and leaf arrangement, allowing novices and experts alike to quickly
identify flowers. Nomenclature has been updated to reflect current
and correct usage.
'A beautiful and profound meditation on the way landscape shapes
art and life. I was entranced by The White Birch, a book that comes
close to encapsulating the vast enigma of Russia in the form of a
single tree' Alex Preston, author of Winchelsea and As Kingfishers
Catch Fire The birch. Genus Betula. One of the northern
hemisphere's most widespread and easily recognisable trees, and
Russia's unofficial national emblem. From Catherine the Great's
garden follies and Tolstoy's favourite chair to the Chernobyl
exclusion zone and drunken nights in Moscow, art critic Tom
Jeffreys leads us across Russia's diverse land to understand its
dramatically shifting identity. As we walk through lost landscapes,
discover historic artworks, explore the secret online world of
Russian brides, and relive encounters between some of Russia's
greatest artists and writers, we uncover a myriad of overlapping
meanings surrounding the humble birch tree. Curious, resonant and
idiosyncratic, The White Birch is a unique collection of journeys
that grapples with the riddle of Russianness.
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern
California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever
sustained-the coast redwood trees, " "Sequoia sempervirens.
Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been
destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are
among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods have trunks
up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty-five stories
above the ground, forming cathedral-like structures in the air.
Until recently, redwoods were thought to be virtually impossible to
ascend, and the canopy at the tops of these majestic trees was
undiscovered. In "The Wild Trees," Richard Preston unfolds the
spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny
group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost
world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly
beautiful, and unexplored.
The canopy voyagers are young-just college students when they start
their quest-and they share a passion for these trees, persevering
in spite of sometimes crushing personal obstacles and failings.
They take big risks, they ignore common wisdom (such as the notion
that there's nothing left to discover in North America), and they
even make love in hammocks stretched between branches three hundred
feet in the air.
The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses,
lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and
thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk
systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes
carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called "fire
caves." Thick layers of soil sitting on limbs harbor animal and
plant life that is unknown to science. Humans move through the deep
canopy suspended on ropes, far out of sight of the ground, knowing
that the price of a small mistake can be a plunge to one's death.
Preston's account of this amazing world, by turns terrifying,
moving, and fascinating, is an adventure story told in novelistic
detail by a master of nonfiction narrative. The author shares his
protagonists' passion for tall trees, and he mastered the
techniques of tall-tree climbing to tell the story in "The Wild
Trees"-the story of the fate of the world's most splendid forests
and of the imperiled biosphere itself.
"From the Hardcover edition."
Can you tell which plants are safe to eat? Which trees are best to
shelter under a storm? How do you tell a deciduous and coniferous
tree apart? In his charming new book, bestselling author of The
Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben takes you on a journey of
discovery. From learning what creatures lurk beneath tree roots to
finding your way around the woods without a compass, this is a
captivating guide to navigating the wonders of the wild.
Nearing the end of a lifetime in the boreal forest, a retired
forester writes a passionate plea for rational, science-based
forest management. The boreal forest is constantly changing, often
dramatically. We like to picture it as a stable, balanced system.
Really, it is anything but stable. The boreal forest is dynamic.
For over sixty years, forester Malcolm F. Squires has seen mature
forests within protected areas devastated by insects, moose, wind,
and wildfire. While the forests often return from this destruction,
they are never quite the same. A naturally balanced boreal forest
is a human notion that does not match the reality of nature. If we
don’t soon recognize and accept that reality and stop making
irrational demands that a forest be “protected” from change or
human management, we may be dooming them to disaster.
Aquatic Weeds: A Pocket Identification Guide for the Carolinas is a
practical resource containing color images and descriptions of
aquatic weed species commonly found in North Carolina and South
Carolina. Prepared by aquatic weed specialists and researchers at
NC State University, this guide provides information about each
species, including identifying characteristics, habitat, and
potential human-health concerns. This guide is printed on
water-resistant paper, making it the perfect field companion for
researchers and lake managers alike.
Soil Nematodes of Grasslands in Northern China presents research on
China's temperate grasslands, providing the findings and results of
a large field survey along a transect across the northern temperate
grassland. It examines nematode distribution patterns along the
transect from trophic group and family, to genus level, also
evaluating their relationship with climatic conditions, plant
biomass and soil parameters. The book then presents detailed
taxonomy information of nematodes to genus or species level,
providing keen insights into nematode diversity along the grassland
transect in north China. Final sections review the advances and
perspectives for the research of soil ecology on soil nematodes in
China, including recent major discoveries of soil microbial
diversity and eco-function during this field survey. This work will
help researchers predict the impact of global change drivers on
below ground soil biota and better understand the functioning and
services they provide in terrestrial ecosystems.
Fully revised and published in cooperation with Canyonlands Natural
History Association, Canyon Country Wildflowers is a comprehensive
field guide to the diverse flora of the Four-corners area of the
U.S., including Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. This
valuable reference is organized by color and family for easy plant
identification of more than 200 species--perfect for experienced
botanists and novices alike.
In the depths of the Cotswolds, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire,
lies one of the most beautiful tree gardens in the world, known as
Westonbirt Arboretum. Here you can find around 15,000 trees, each
one lovingly labelled. They offer the perfect, picturesque setting
for escaping from the pressures of everyday life. Now, for the
first time, 100 of the most popular British trees form the basis of
this beautiful pocket guide. Illustrated with artwork depicting the
tree and leaf, this covetable little book will educate and
entertain with wonderfully concise text by one of the world's
leading tree experts from the Arboretum. Pop this book in your
pocket for a great day out spotting some of the most celebrated
features of our landscape!
Flowers come in an unbelievable array of shapes and colors. Yet,
their leaf and fruit forms surpass even their floral splendor. From
Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae, this book features magnificent color
portraits of 200 flowering-plant families from around the world.
The deconstructed plant parts-flowers, leaves, stamens, and
fruits-are individually scanned and arranged side by side on black
background to provide unique insight into how plants grow and what
they look like. The addition of text describing the plant families,
and cross sections of the organs of some species, makes this book a
valuable resource for botanical artists and horticultural
enthusiasts.
Observing the plants of the forest floor - the flowers, ferns,
sedges and grasses - can be a vital way of understanding our
relationship with British woodland. They tell us stories about its
history and past management, and can be a visible sign of progress
when we get conservation right. For centuries, woodland plants have
also been part of our lives in practical ways as food and
medicines, and they have influenced our culture through poetry,
perfume and pub signs. In this insightful and original account,
Keith Kirby explores how woodland plants in Great Britain have come
to be where they are, coped with living in the shade of their
bigger relatives, and responded to threats in the form of storms,
fires, floods, the attentions of grazing herbivores and the effects
of the changing seasons. Along the way, the reader is introduced to
the work of important botanists who have walked the woods in the
past, collecting information on where plants occur and why.
In-depth profiles of some of our most important and popular ground
flora species provide extra detail and insight. Beautifully
illustrated, Woodland Flowers is a must for anyone who appreciates
and wants to learn more about British woodland and its plants.
Foraging is one of the fastest-growing nature-related pastimes in
the UK and US. There are many books about foraging but this is the
only one that focuses on what is arguably everyone's favourite
plant - trees! It profiles 40 incredible trees from the UK and US -
from apple, ash and bay to walnut, willow and yew, gorgeously
illustrated with watercolour, pen and ink botanical illustrations.
In her humorous, inspiring and warm text, Adele explains how we can
forage from our trees, not only for food, but also for home
remedies, for ingredients to use in cocktails and ferments, and for
materials to make toys, musical instruments and other useful
things. Did you know that you can grind acorns into flour to make
pancakes, for example, or use oak galls for ink? Or that Willow can
be used for weaving; ash, hazel and oak are all good for making
charcoal. Packed full of recipes and things to do, there is also a
sprinkling of folklore and superstition, as well as helpful
recognition tips. Overall it traces the fascinating story of the
intimate relationship between humankind and our trees.
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