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A guide to plants of the northern Chihuahuan Desert / Carolyn Dodson ; drawings by Robert DeWitt Ivey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dodson, Carolyn, 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botany--Chihuahuan Desert.
- Botany.
- Plants--Chihuahuan Desert--Identification.
- Plants.
- Plants--Chihuahuan Desert--Pictorial works.
- Botany--Chihuahuan Desert--Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Each illustrated profile in this guide includes the plant's common and Latin name and a brief description, as well as its role in human history, its relationship to the surrounding flora and fauna, medicinal uses, nutritional value, habitat, toxicity, and other interesting facts.
- Contents:
- ""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Trees and Shrubs""; ""Succulents""; ""Cacti""; ""Wildflowers""; ""Nonflowering Plants""; ""Glossary""; ""Plant Part Illustrations""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Artist: Robert DeWitt Ivey, New Mexico Naturalist""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8263-5022-4
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