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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 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.
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.
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