Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
by James G. Harris, Melinda Woolf Harris
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Author: James G. Harris, Melinda Woolf HarrisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-01-01
ISBN: 0964022168
Number of pages: 216
Publisher: Spring Lake Pub
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Book Review: A must-have for plants!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great terminology dictionary. For anyone trying to use the Radford book (manual of the vascular flora of the carolinas) or any similar book, this is a wonderful aid. Keys are often hard to use without knowing complete plant vocabulary, and this book covers everything I've ever encountered. The diagrams are particulary helpful in this book. For example, if you need to know if a leaf is sagittate or hastate and the book says (and it does) Sagittate: "arrowhead-shaped, with the basal lobes directed downward" and Hastate: "arrowhead-shaped, but with the basal lobes turned outward rather than downward; halberd-shaped" you may not be sure which your plant is, but both have very good diagrams to show the difference. Small things like which way the lobes are turned can make a big difference in keying plants, and sometimes a picture is worth a definition rather than a thousand words.
Summary of Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
Plant identification employs an extensive and complex terminology. Professional botanists often need several years in the field to master this terminology, and it presents a daunting obstacle to the student of botany.The meaning of most botanical terms, however, is immediately apparent when an illustration is available. That is the purpose of this volume. Plant Identification Terminology provides over nineteen hundred clear illustrations of terms used in plant identification keys and descriptions. It also includes definitions for more than twenty-seven hundred taxonomic terms.
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