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Flora of North America - North of Mexico; Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae (Hardcover, New): Fna Ed Committee Flora of North America - North of Mexico; Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae (Hardcover, New)
Fna Ed Committee
R2,355 Discovery Miles 23 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

To be published in 30 volumes,Flora of North America represents the first and only comprehensive taxonomic guide to the extraordinary diversity of plant life blanketing our continent north of Mexico. The collaborative effort of more than 30 major U.S. and Canadian botanical institutions, this ground-breaking scholarly series revises and synthesizes literally thousands of floristic monographs and regional floras published over the last three centuries. family, Rosaceae. Flora of North America Volume 9 includes four families - Picramniaceae (bitter-bush family), Staphyleaceae (bladdernut family), Crossosomataceae (crossosoma family), and Rosaceae (rose family). This volume contains treatments of nearly 700 species with over 98% of them being species of Rosaceae. Every genus has representative taxa illustrated to aid in plant identification and to demonstrate the morphological variation that exists for these families in North America.by Many economically important plants with edible fruits are members of the Rosaceae, with both native and introducede species known and consumed by people: apples, pears,clature, peaches, almonds, apricots, plums, cherries, strawberries,e blackberries, and raspberries are probably the most commonly utilized. Other members of the Rosaceae, many of greatare horticultural interest worldwide, are also noteworthy in the North American flora, including roses, hawthorns,h keys to cinquefoils, firethorns, quinces, chokecherries, shadbushes, mountain ashes, and loquats. Concise, easy to use, and beautifully bound and illustrated, Flora of North America is an indispensable working resource for botanists, conservationists, ecologists, agronomists,now foresters, range and land managers, horticulturists - anyone with a series interest in the distribution, habitat, morphology, and survival of the wide-ranging plant life around us.

Flora of North America: Volume 8 - Magnoliophyta: Paeoniaceae to ericaceae (Hardcover, New): Fna Ed Committee Flora of North America: Volume 8 - Magnoliophyta: Paeoniaceae to ericaceae (Hardcover, New)
Fna Ed Committee
R2,328 Discovery Miles 23 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Flora of North America Volume 8 is the seventh of 19 volumes on dicotyledons to be published in the Flora of North America North of Mexico series. It treats 680 species classified among 125 genera in 19 families. The larger families covered in Volume 8 include Crassulaceae (Stonecrop family), Ericaceae (Heath family), Grossulariaceae (Currant family), Myrsinaceae (Myrsine family), Primulaceae (Primrose family), and Saxifragaceae (Saxifrage family).
Each genus has representative species illustrated with a line drawing that, in combination with keys and descriptions, will facilitate identifications of these groups of plants. Some of the genera treated in this volume with the most species in the flora include: Ribes (Grossulariaceae) with 53 species; Dudleya and Sedum (Crassulaceae) with 26 and 41 species, respectively; Heuchera, Micranthes, and Saxifraga (Saxifragaceae) with 31, 45, and 25 species, respectively; and Arctostaphylos, Rhododendron, and Vaccinium (Ericaceae) with 62, 25, and 25 species, respectively. Additionally, ten of the 46 genera of Ericaceae are endemic to the flora area.
The ongoing publishing project Flora of North America is the first comprehensive taxonomic guide to the extraordinary diversity of plant life covering our continent north of Mexico. This ground breaking scholarly series is a collaborative effort by researchers at more than 30 U.S. and Canadian botanical institutions. The Flora provides revisions of many plant groups and synthesizes the results from studies published in hundreds of research papers over the last three centuries.
The series, based on herbarium, laboratory and field studies by hundreds of leading botanists and taxonomic authorities, is this century's premier tool for identifying, understanding, and conserving North America's floristic heritage. Flora of North America, with beautiful illustrations accompanying many species, is concise and easy to use. It is an indispensable resource for botanists, conservationists, ecologists, agronomists, foresters, range and land managers, and horticulturists.

FNA: Volume 6: Magnoliophyta: Cucurbitaceae to Droserceae (Hardcover): Fna Ed Committee FNA: Volume 6: Magnoliophyta: Cucurbitaceae to Droserceae (Hardcover)
Fna Ed Committee
R2,512 Discovery Miles 25 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Flora of North America North of Mexico Volume 6 - Magnoliophyta: Cucurbitaceae to Droseraceae - includes treatments prepared by 36 authors covering 545 species in 104 genera classified in 19 families. Among the families treated in this volume, the largest are Malvaceae (250 species), Violaceae (78), Hypericaceae (58), Cucurbitaceae (56), Cistaceae (40), and Passifloraceae (18). Descriptions for all of the families, genera, and species are provided plus occurrence maps for species are included and 28% of the species are illustrated. Keys are included to aid in the identification of genera in families and species within the genera. Volume 6 is the nineteenth volume to be published in the planned 30-volume Flora of North America North of Mexico series.

Fna: Volume 17: Magnoliophyta: Tetrachondraceae to Orbobanchaceae (Hardcover): Fna Ed Committee Fna: Volume 17: Magnoliophyta: Tetrachondraceae to Orbobanchaceae (Hardcover)
Fna Ed Committee
R2,365 Discovery Miles 23 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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