Synopses & Reviews
This illustrated collection offers accurate identifications of 295 plants, each arranged according to appearance and illustrated by at least one drawing. Most include three separate images showing full view, seed pods or flowers, and other distinguishing marks. Entries include common name, scientific name, synonyms, habitat, distribution, size, and identifying characteristics. Over 750 illustrations.
Synopsis
Unique volume presents identifying information and over 750 illustrations for 295 plants. Most plants illustrated by three separate drawings: full view, seed pods, flowers. Key.
Synopsis
What is that plant you've seen in a marshy ditch alongside the road? What is that strange-looking vegetation that you see over the side of your canoe, or along the shore? Without this book, you may have difficulty in finding answers to such questions, for although arrowheads and cattails are known by most sportsmen, birdwatchers, wild-food buffs and biologists on their trips to the marshes of America, guides for other common plants are not easily available. In this unique collection, 295 illustrated marsh, underwater and floating-leaved plants are compiled in an up-to-date guide for accurate and quick identification.
The guide contains two publications prepared by Neil Hotchkiss, Wildlife Biologist of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, for the Department of the Interior: Common Marsh Plants of the United States and Canada, with 164 illustrated species, and Underwater and Floating-leaved Plants of the United States and Canada, with 156. Twenty-five plants which take on new forms according to environment appear in both publications.
Plants are arranged in groups to appearance; illustrations within the general groupings make quick identification possible. At least one scale drawing at life, 1/2, 1/4, or 1/16 size is given for each plant; most plants are illustrated by three separate drawings showing full view, seed pods or flowers, and other distinguishing marks. Common name, scientific name, synonyms, habitat, distribution, size, and identifying characteristics such as stem, leaves, seeds, scales, spikelets, flowers, and growing pattern are given for each species with resemblances between species clarified. Wide borders allow ample space for notes made either in the field or at home. This book will increase the pleasure of a walk through the marsh and will give a closer look at the plants that grow in the marshes, float on the water or grow underneath it.
Synopsis
2 volumes bound as one guide reader to over 290 plants. Over 750 illus.
Synopsis
This collection offers accurate identifications of nearly 300 plants, each accompanied by at least one illustration. Entries include common name, scientific name, synonyms, habitat, distribution, size, and identifying characteristics.
Table of Contents
Introduction
"Group 1. Plants with upright or upslanted leafless stems; or similar plants with long, narrow leaves coming from the lower part of the stems; flowers usually individually inconspicious, but crowded and numerous"
Softstem Bulrush
Hardstem Bulrush
Slender Bulrush
Southern Bulrush
Swamp Bulrush
Saltmarsh Fimbristylis
Baltic Rush
Soft Rush
Soldier Rush
Needlerush
Bog Rush
Blackgrass
Seaside Arrowgrass
Southern Arrowgrass
Flowering-rush
Common Threesquare
Olney Threesquare
Torrey Threesquare
Ricefield Bulrush
Bluntscale Bulrush
Rush Fuirena
Spikerushes
Slender Spikerush
Dwarf Spikerush
Trianglestem Spikerush
Water Spikerush
Common Spikerush
Walking Spikerush
Blunt Spikerush
Saltmarsh Spikerush
Squarestem Spikerush
Northern Jointed Spikerush
Southern Jointed Spikerush
Gulf Spikerush
Cattails
Broadleaf Cattail
Narrowleaf Cattail
Southern Cattail
Blue Cattail
Burreeds
Big Burreed
Eastern Burreed
Shining Burreed
Slender Burreed
Floating Burreed
Little Burreed
Sweetflag
Swamp-lily
"Group 2. Plants with upright or upslanted stems with grass-like leaves on two sides (one plane); flowers individually inconspicuous between scales which overlap in two rows to form spikelets, the spikelets clustered toward the top of stems"
Phragmites
Tufted Hairgrass
Whitetop
Reed Mannagrass
Western Mannagrass
Low Mannagrass
Water Mannagrass
Sharpscale Mannagrass
Bearded Sprangletop
Wildrice
Giant Cutgrass
Rice
Wild Millet
Walter Millet
Reed Canarygrass
Rice Cutgrass
Sloughgrass
Saltgrass
Coast Dropseed
Giant Setaria
Sacciolepis
Jointgrass
Maidencane
Water Panicum
Prairie Cordgrass
Big Cordgrass
Saltmeadow Cordgrass
Saltmarsh Cordgrass
California Cordgrass
"Group 3. Plants with upright stems with grasslike leaves on three sides; flowers individually inconspicuous between scales which usually overlap in several rows to form spikelets, the spikelets clustered toward the top of stems"
Sedges
Beaked Sedge
Slough Sedge
Lake Sedge
Lyngbye Sedge
Pacific Sedge
Saltmarsh Sedge
Alkali Bulrush
Tuberous Bulrush
Saltmarsh Bulrush
Redroot Cyperus
Twig-rush
Sawgrass
Everglade Beakrush
"Group 4. Plants with uprights, sprawling, or horizontal stems with singly placed, non-grasslike, lance-shaped or wider, untoothed leaves; flowers clustered at the end of stems or single or clustered at the base of leaves"
Smartweeds
Water Smartweed
Marsh Smartweed
Nodding Smartweed
Swamp Smartweed
Dotted Smartweed
Southern Smartweed
Hairy Smartweed
Halberdleaf Tear-thumb
Longleaf Mudplantain
Roundleaf Mudplantain
Floating Waterprimrose
Marsh Dayflower
Marsh Boltonia
Atlantic Sea-blite
Tidemarsh Waterhemp
Annual Saltmarsh Aster
Perennial Saltmarsh Aster
Group 5. Plants with upright, sprawling, or horizontal stems with paired, whorled, or otherwise clustered, lance-shaped or wider, untoothed leaves; or plants with leafless stems and paired or whorled branches; flowers single or clustered at the end of stems, in stalked heads along stems, or single or clustered at the base of leaves
Marestail
Water Horsetail
Glassworts
Slender Glasswort
Bigelow Glasswort
Woody Glasswort
California Glasswort
Marsh-purslane
Goldenpert
Purple Loosestrife
Swamp Loosestrife
Waterwillow
Creeping Rush
Lemon Bacopa
Alligatorweed
Jaumea
Saltwort
Saltflat-grass
Frankenia
Seaside Gerardia
Saltmarsh Loosestrife
Little Sea-pink
Big Sea-pink
Coast Milkweed
Sea-oxeye
Coast Bacopa
"Group 6. Plants with both their lance-shap or wider, untoothed leaves and the stalks of their solitary flowers or flower clusters coming from underground stems or underwater stems"
Spatterdock
American Lotus
Arrow-arum
Pickerelweed
Arrowheads
Northern Arrowhead
Broadleaf Arrowhead
Engelmann Arrowhead
Hooded Arrowhead
Long-barb Arrowhead
Bur Arrowhead
Slender Arrowhead
Delta Duckpotato
Bulltongue
Broadleaf Waterplantain
Narrowleaf Waterplantain
Upright Burhead
Creeping Burhead
Damasonium
Sea-lavender
Goldenclub
American Frogbit
Water-hyacinth
Waterlettuce
Group 7. Plants with tooth-edged to deeply divided leaves or leaflets
Marsh Cinquefoil
Waterparsnip
Bulblet Waterhemlock
Nodding Beggarticks
Marsh Mermaidweed
Cutleaf Mermaidweed
Parrotfeather
Water-parsley
Marsh Hibiscus
Saltmarsh Pluchea
Mock-bishopweed
Marsh Eryngo
Saltmarsh Mallow