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Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
by Douglas W. Tallamy  Publisher Comments With the accelerating pace of development and subsequent habitat destruction, the pressures on wildlife populations are greater than they have ever been in our nation's history. Fortunately, there is still time to reverse this alarming trend, and...
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan 
Publisher Comments In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant -- though this...
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The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants
by Anna Pavord Publisher Comments An exhilarating new book from the author of the worldwide bestseller The Tulip. The Naming of Names traces the search for order in the natural world, a search that for hundreds of years occupied some of the most brilliant minds in Europe. ...
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Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, BC and Alaska
by Jim (com) Pojar Synopsis This is a revised edition of our bestselling book Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast marking the 10th anniversary of publication. This superb reference book features 794 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatic plants, grasses, ferns, mosses and...
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How to Identify Plants
by H D Harrington Synopsis This classic guide to the art of plant identification is now familiar to an entire generation of students. Harrington's clear and careful organized textbook provides step-by-step instructions and definitions to aid in recognition and classification of...
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Gods and Goddesses in the Garden: Greco-Roman Mythology and the Scientific Names of Plants
by Peter Bernhardt Synopsis Bernhardt reveals the rich history and mythology that underlie the origins of many scientific plant names in a series of interlocking stories. Each chapter opens with a short version of a classical myth, then links the tale to plant names, showing how...
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The Apple Pie Tree
by Zoe Hall Publisher Comments The changing seasons bring a tasty surprise in this bright picture book from the author/illustrator team of It's Pumpkin Time!. Two young sisters watch in fascination as their apple tree changes, from bare in winter to bursting with pink blossoms in...
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Plants of the Rocky Mountains
by Linda Kershaw Synopsis Over 1300 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens are described and illustrated. Notes on origin of name, ecology, native uses, edibility and similar species are included, as are color-coded sections to allow for quick...
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Northwest Weeds: The Ugly and Beautiful Villains of Fields, Gardens, and Roadsides
by Ronald J Taylor Synopsis "Northwest Weeds" describes and illustrates the prominent weeds of the north-western United States and adjacent Canada. It includes information on the origin, distribution, aggressiveness, and edibility of each weed, and full-color photographs....
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Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
by Thomas J. Elpel Synopsis Learn to identify plants by the hundreds, based on the principle that related plants have similar patterns for identification and that they often have similar uses....
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
by Dan Koeppel Publisher Comments A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the worldas most humble fruit To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In...
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Food Plants of China
by Shiu Ying Hu Synopsis The food plants of an area provide the material basis for the survival of its population, and furnish inspiring stimuli for cultural development. There are two parts in this book. Part 1 introduces the cultural aspects of Chinese food plants and the...
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Mosses Lichens and Ferns of Northwest North America
by Dale H. Vitt Publisher Comments and tundra. Over 370 species included, each illustrated in color....
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Hidden Forest : Biography of an Ecosystem (06 Edition)
by Jon R. Luoma Publisher Comments The tallest species of spruce, hemlock, fir, cedar, and pine trees on earth coexist in the old growth of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon's Cascade Range. Set aside as a living laboratory by the U.S. Forest Service in 1948, the 16,000...
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River and Desert Plants of the Grand Canyon
by Kristin Huisinga Synopsis The Grand Canyon's isolation, great elevational range, and position at the convergence of three North American deserts--the Mojave, Sonoran, and Great Basin--have created unique habitats for an unusual assemblage of plants. Some grow only at seeps and...
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Medicinal Plants of North America: A Field Guide (Falcon Guide)
by Jim Meuninck Publisher Comments This exquisitely detailed full-color field guide, by biologist and herbal and medical plant expert Jim Meuninck, provides identification, practical information, and skills for the location of and use of medicinal plants. The pages of this book re...
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Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants
by Christopher Nyerges Publisher Comments An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, botanists or anyone interested in living closer to the earth. Written by a leading expert on wild foods and a well-known teacher of survival skills, Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants is...
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An Instant Guide to Edible Plants
by Pamela Forey Publisher Comments An Instant Guide to Edible Plants is an ideal compact guide to the identification and uses of the most commonly found edible wild plants of North America. An easy-to-understand system of color-coded bands that denotes the edible part of the plant leads...
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Grasses: An Identification Guide (Peterson Nature Library)
by Lauren Brown Publisher Comments 'How to identify 135 of the most common species of North American grasses, sedges, and rushes, with their economic and ecological importance.'...
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California Natural History Guides #86: Introduction to California Soils and Plants: Serpentine, Vernal Pools, and Other Geobotanical Wonders
by Arthur R. Kruckeberg Publisher Comments Carnivorous pitcher plants, pygmy conifers, and the Tiburon jewel flower, restricted to a small patch of serpentine soil on Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, are just a few of California's many amazing endemic plants--species that are unique to...
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