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The plants of Pennsylvania : an illustrated manual / Ann Fowler Rhoads and Timothy A. Block ; illustrations by Anna Aniśko.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection QK183 .R56 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rhoads, Ann Fowler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plants--Pennsylvania--Classification.
- Plants.
- Plants--Pennsylvania--Identification.
- Pennsylvania.
- Genre:
- Classification.
- Field guides.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 1042 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Pennsylvania, a state of diverse geography and geology, is rich in flora. The second edition of The Plants of Pennsylvania identifies the nearly 3,400 species of trees, wildflowers, ferns, grasses, sedges, aquatic plants, and weeds native to or naturalized in the Commonwealth.
- Contents:
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- How to use the manual
- Symbols and abbreviations
- Collecting and preserving plant specimens
- Brief floristic description of Pennsylvania
- Endangered and threatened species programs
- General keys to families
- Master key
- Sectional keys
- Spore-bearing vascular plants
- Gymnosperms
- Basal angiosperms
- Monocots
- Ceratophyllales
- Magnoliids
- Dicots
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 995-1002) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812240030
- 0812240030
- OCLC:
- 77520506
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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