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Wildflowers of the tallgrass prairie : the Upper Midwest / Sylvan T. Runkel and Dean M. Roosa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Runkel, Sylvan T.
- Series:
- Bur Oak guide.
- A Bur Oak guide
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wild flowers--Middle West.
- Wild flowers.
- Wild flowers--Middle West--Identification.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This classic of midwestern natural history is back in print with a new format and new photographs. Originally published in 1989, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie introduced many naturalists to the beauty and diversity of the native plants of the huge grasslands that once stretched from Manitoba to Texas. Now redesigned with updated names and all-new photographs, this reliable field companion will introduce tallgrass prairie wildflowers to a new generation of outdoor enthusiasts in the Upper Midwest.
- Contents:
- Publisher's Note to the Second Edition; Foreword by John Madson; Preface; Acknowledgments; Disclaimer; Introduction; Pasque flower; Prairie dandelion; Wood betony; Golden alexanders; Pussytoes; Hoary puccoon; Prairie violet; Bastard toadflax; Wild strawberry; Camass; Alumroot; Kittentails; Prairie smoke; Biscuitroot; Prairie phlox; Prairie willow; American vetch; Shooting star; Wild garlic; Ground plum; Cream-colored false indigo; Lead plant; Prairie false indigo; Prairie turnip; Canada anemone; Snow-on-the mountain; Yellow star-grass; Blueflag iris; Porcupine grass; Bedstraw; Indigo bush
- Prairie larkspurBlue-eyed grass; Prairie groundsel; Large-flowered beardtongue; Pale beardtongue; Locoweed; False gromwell; Wild licorice; Small white ladyslipper; Four o'clock; Wild quinine; Scarlet globe mallow; Yucca; New Jersey tea; Ground cherry; Small-flowered gaura; Ten-petaled mentzelia; Stickleaf mentzelia; Skeleton weed; Bunchflower; June grass; Yellow flax; Wood lily; Spiked lobelia; Reed canary grass; Flowering spurge; Western wheat grass; Water hemlock; Poison hemlock; Prairie coreopsis; Rattlebox; Butterfly milkweed; Rattlesnake master; Queen-of-the-prairie; Wild rose
- Black-eyed SusanNine-anther dalea; Wild petunia; Meadow sweet; Purple meadow rue; Spiderwort; Death camas; Hoary vervain; Goat's rue; Yellow coneflower; Prickly pear; Downy painted cup; Purple coneflower; Ox-eye; Tick trefoil; Illinois bundleflower; Spotted St. John's-wort; Prairie cord grass; Silverleaf scurf pea; Tall cinquefoil; Purple prairie clover; White prairie clover; Swamp milkweed; Compass plant; Tuberous Indian plantain; Buffalo grass; Eastern gamagrass; Virginia wild rye; Sand reed; Eastern prairie fringed orchis; Western prairie fringed orchis; Gumweed; Canada wild rye
- Blazing starMichigan lily; Cottonweed; Maximilian sunflower; Common pearly everlasting; Partridge pea; Hedge nettle; Culver's root; Common evening primrose; Horsemint; Virginia mountain mint; Rough blazing star; Witchgrass; Cudweed; Side oats grama grass; Roundhead lespedeza; False boneset; Ironweed; Indian grass; Prairie sage; Tall thistle; Switchgrass; Stiff goldenrod; Prairie dropseed; Prairie three awn; Big bluestem; Little bluestem; Silky aster; Marsh muhly; Reed grass; Closed gentian; Nodding ladies' tresses; Aster; Glossary; Selected References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-58729-844-9
- OCLC:
- 496518352
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