Flora of the Pacific Northwest : an illustrated manual / C. Leo Hitchcock ; edited by David Giblin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hitchcock, C. Leo (Charles Leo), 1902-1986, author.

Contributor:

Giblin, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (liii, 882 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2018]

Summary:

Flora of the Pacific Northwest, first published in 1973, became an instant classic for its innovative style of providing species descriptions in the identification keys and for its comprehensive illustrations of nearly all treated taxa (species, subspecies, and varieties). Students rely on it as an essential primer, while veteran botanists and natural resource managers use it as the definitive reference for the region’s flora.This completely revised and updated edition captures the advances in vascular plant systematics over the decades since publication of the first edition. These advances, together with significant changes in plant nomenclature, the description of taxa new to science from the region, and the recent documentation of new native and nonnative species in the Pacific Northwest required a thorough revision of this authoritative work.Flora of the Pacific Northwest covers all of Washington, the northern half of Oregon, Idaho north of the Snake River Plain, the mountainous portion of western Montana, and the southern portion of British Columbia. It accounts for the wild-growing native and introduced vascular plants falling within those boundaries and includes:Treatment of 5,545 taxa (more than 1,000 taxa added from the first edition)Illustrations for 4,716 taxa (1,382 more than the first edition)Nomenclature changes for more than 40 percent of the taxa included in the first editionThese enhancements make this new edition the most comprehensive reference on Pacific Northwest vascular plants for professional and amateur botanists, ecologists, rare plant biologists, plant taxonomy instructors, land managers, nursery professionals, and gardeners.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Donors and Financial Supporters

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Project Background

Project Philosophy

Geographic Boundary

Taxonomic Scope

Taxonomic Philosophy

Floristic Summary

Organization and Format

Abbreviations and Symbols

Glossary

References and Resources

Artificial Key to Families

Descriptive Flora

Lycophytes

Ferns (Monilophytes)

Gymnosperms

Nymphaeales

Piperales

Laurales

Ceratophyllales

Eudicots

Monocots

Index of Families

Index of Scientific and Common Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295742892

0295742895

OCLC:

1027726223