A Peterson Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-central North America

Posted on 10 July 2019 by Roger Tory Peterson

Find what you re looking for with Peterson Field Guides their field tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time Grouped by color and by plant characteristics, 1,293 species in 84 families are described and illustrated Included here are all the flowers you re most likely to encounter in the eastern and north central U.S., westward to the Dakotas and southward to North Carolina and Arkansas, as well as the adjacent parts of Canada. Free Download A Peterson Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-central North America [ author ] Roger Tory Peterson [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Love field guides Being outside and enjoying the challenge of identifying something in nature, in this case wildflowers.I took this book with to a class in Grand Marais, it was very well organized and useful.This book isn t bad, however I feel Newcomb s Wildflower Guide covers the same information but does so with better illustrations, text and higher quality construction If I didn t own Newcomb s I might have rated this book a 4, but I can t give it the same mark because it simply lacks what Newcomb s offers Interestingly, my copy actually feels and looks cheaper than the rest of my Peterson guides.My copy is still in near new condition because I don t use it with so many better options out This book isn t bad, however I feel Newcomb s Wildflower Guide covers the same information but does so with better illustrations, text and higher quality construction If I didn t own Newcomb s I might have rated this book a 4, but I ca...I have an older version also I think this book is excellent for identifying wildflowers but I wish they would do away with the drawings and replace them by pictures Would also liked to haveinformation for each particular flower I know that some are poisonous but this guide fails to mention Also would have liked to have some info as to whether or not the flowers co...I loved carrying this book with me everywhere I went this summer I would pick plants, try to figure out which one was what then dry them in between the proper pages for fun It was nice to flip through it with dried flowers that kept falling out of the book and ...This is a farily extensive introduction to the wildflowers of the Northeastern central United States The descriptions, illustrations and characteristic indicator arrows typical of the Peterson guides are very useful I have u...my least favorite of the peterson guides that i ve used.great illustrations and descriptions but the plants are arranged based on the color of the flower, which makes identification rather difficult outside the blooming season if you don t know at least the family the plant belongs to.Not as good as Peter White s Wildflowers of the Smokies for identification of wildflowers within the Appalachian Mountain Range of course, Peterson s book is for a larger geographical area than White s.I love these kinds of books, even though I have a hard time doing the identification I like having the books to try to do so.I own an earlier edition Peterson Field guides are always useful I like to combine their drawings with a guide that has photographs for ultimate identification.

A Peterson Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-central North America

English
10 July 2019

Roger Tory Peterson