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Author: Janet L. Wingate Publisher: Big Earth Publishing ISBN: 9781555662899 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 150
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This indispensible pocket guide to more than 350 alpine plants in six Rocky Mountain States offers sure-fire methods of plant identification, for beginner and expert alike.
Author: Janet L. Wingate Publisher: Big Earth Publishing ISBN: 9781555662899 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
This indispensible pocket guide to more than 350 alpine plants in six Rocky Mountain States offers sure-fire methods of plant identification, for beginner and expert alike.
Author: Janet L. Wingate Publisher: ISBN: 9780964754348 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 135
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The Alpine Flower Finder offers sure-fire methods to identify more than 350 alpine plants found in the six Rocky Mountain states, for beginner and expert alike. It contains: *a user friendly stepwise classification scheme to plant families. *an illustrated key to plant species, by common and botanical name. *flower color, habitat, and range information. *line drawings that emphasize significant characteristics. *an illustrated glossary of botanical terms. This completely revised edition includes many new illustrations, updated nomenclature, and improved keys based on extensive field tests by both amateur wildflower lovers and professional botanists.
Author: Barry Maletzky, M.D. Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1663254249 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 552
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This book features where and when you can find 300 different species of wildflowers, flowering shrubs and small trees along the 14 most popular trails in the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area. It provides not only descriptions of the flowers but why it populates that specific ecological niche, how it differs from related species, the month(s) it can be found, and its relationships to its genus and family. Along with the written descriptions, color illustrations accompany the text adjacent to its description. These are rendered in sufficient detail for easy identification. The location of each wildflower will be specified by distance from the trailhead, distance from before and after prominent landmarks, and elevation. These descriptions and the accompanying illustrations will allow you to locate and identify almost all the wildflowers in the Gorge. In addition, sidebars accompany the text in all chapters explaining botanical information in general but non-technical language, thus providing additional information about not only the science of these ecosystems but also the reasons why any particular flower or its family dwells in that particular location.
Author: Gillian Price Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited ISBN: 1783620323 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 367
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This pocket field guide to identifying 230 common Alpine flowers is packed with all the information you need to recognise your favourites while out in the mountains. Designed for the non-specialist, this little handbook is arranged by colour and also includes a glossary of flower parts and an introduction which describes the amazing lengths that these tiny gems go to to survive at altitude. Alpine expert author Gillian Price says: 'It never ceases to amaze me that such tiny plants can spend months on end buried under metres of snow and ice - weathering temperatures as low as minus 25°C - then sprout back to life when things thaw out and warm up. In springtime you can spot the fragile purple petals of the Alpine Snowbell pushing their way through snow - they contain an anti-freeze that enables them to melt it. Masters of adaptation and survival, alpine flowers can trap insects, store precious water, expel excess minerals and fool insects.' Each flower entry includes a clear photograph and essential description along with its name in English, Latin, German, French and Italian and interesting information about the origins of some of the more curious flower names. Each one is also indexed by its English and its Latin name so you can follow up a hunch about a name or find out more about a flower.
Author: Janet L. Wingate Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub ISBN: 9781570980268 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 130
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Includes over black-and-white drawings of 350 species of wildflowers found in six U.S. Rocky Mountain states--Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico.
Author: Janet L. Wingate Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers ISBN: 9780912550206 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 200
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Pocket field guide to wildflowers of the Rockies, from foothills to tree line. As with all our flower guides, the step-by-step key guides you first to the flower family and then to the name of the individual species. Includes information about habitat and range, and a glossary of terms used to describe flowers and leaves. Author's line drawings clearly reveal important features for accurate identification.
Author: Jack Turner Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312560959 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 300
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Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America's greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. In a series of essays, Turner explores this wonderland, venturing on twelve separate trips in all seasons using various modes of travel. He treks down the Teton Range, picks up the Oregon Trail in the Red Desert, and floats the South Fork of the Snake River. Along the way he encounters a variety of wildlife: moose, elk, trout, and wolves. From the treacherous mountains in the dead of winter to lush river valleys in the height of fishing season, his words and steps trace one of the most American of experiences—exploring the West. Turner—who has lived in Grand Teton for three decades—designates the Greater Yellowstone as ground zero for the country's conflict between preservation and development, and his accounts of the area's conflicts with alien species, logging, real estate, oil, and gas development are alarming. A mixture of adventure, nostalgia, and Americana, Turner's rare experiences and evocative writing transform the sights and sounds of Greater Yellowstone into an intimate narrative of travel through America's most beloved lands.
Author: Publisher: Big Earth Publishing ISBN: 9781565795129 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 380
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This updated book, part of the second edition of Guide to Colorado Wildflowers, includes 30 new wildflower profiles, making the two-volume set more complete than ever. Together, Volume 1: Plains & Foothills and Volume 2: Mountains catalog nearly 700 Colorado wildflower species! Also, the names and page numbers of "crossover" species that you might encounter in the plains and foothills life zones -- but also grow at higher elevations and are covered fully in Volume 2 -- now appear at the end of each chapter in a handy reference system. You don't have to be an expert in botany to identify Colorado's bountiful wildflowers. Guide to Colorado Wildflowers opens the world of these blooming beauties to anyone who wishes to explore it. Book jacket.
Author: Publisher: Big Earth Publishing ISBN: 9781565795136 Category : Wild flowers Languages : en Pages : 390
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This newly revised second edition contains 35 new wildflower profiles. Together, Volume 1: Plains & Foothills and Volume 2: Mountains catalog nearly 700 Colorado wildflower species. Also, the names and page numbers of crossover species that you might encounter in the mountain life zone, but also grow at lower elevations and are covered fully in Volume 1, now appear at the end of each chapter in a handy reference system.
Author: Joyce Gellhorn Publisher: Big Earth Publishing ISBN: 9781555662806 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 276
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Celebrating her life-long love for the land above the trees, author Joyce Gellhorn takes readers on a season-by-season tour of the alpine tundra. With clear, readable prose and 140 beautiful color photographs (from her collection that spans some twenty-five years), Gellhorn reveals the subtle wonders of this haunting landscape. The plants and animals that populate this often harsh and unforgiving environment have evolved remarkable strategies for survival in their high mountain home. Faced with bitter cold, scouring winds and fierce storms, they must somehow hold on and still find water and nourishment. Gellhorn tells us how they do it, and the intricacies and precariousness of these strategies are astonishing.The high country of the Colorado Rocky Mountains has been a destination and a home for Joyce Gellhorn for more than fifty years, including some twelve years spent living with her family at the University of Colorado's research station, Science Lodge -- a log cabin at 9,500 feet. Like the snow that would sift through the chinks in the cabin, the alpine, despite its harshness, captured her heart.She writes: The clear mountain air, the scenery, the invigorating feeling of physical activity, and the fascinating plants, animals, and insects captivated me. Through the years, these wind-blown forlorn places continue to excite me. It is their wildness -- untamed and unpredictable. No matter how many times I visit the alpine, even areas I know intimately, it always shows a different face.
Author: Janet L. Wingate
Author: Janet L. Wingate
Author: Janet L. Wingate
Author: Barry Maletzky, M.D.
Author: Gillian Price
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Author: Joyce Gellhorn