Skip to content
FREE SHIPPING ON ALL DOMESTIC ORDERS $35+
FREE SHIPPING ON ALL US ORDERS $35+
Guide to Flowering Plant Families / Edition 1 - Paperback | Diverse Reads

Guide to Flowering Plant Families / Edition 1

Availability:
in stock, ready to be shipped
$65.00 - $65.00
$65.00
$76.99
$76.99 - $76.99
$76.99
Understanding the flowering plants of any region begins with the recognition of families. This remarkable volume, created to serve students, professionals, and other plant enthusiasts, covers 130 temperate to tropical families common in North America with detailed illustrations and modern referenced commentaries. Each family discussion includes a diagnosis and summary of characteristics, distribution data, important economic members, and pollination ecology. The book's most striking feature is Zomlefer's 158 original pen-and-ink plates depicting intricate dissections of 312 species.
The content of the family discussions is geared to readers who have completed one introductory biology course. For readers less familiar with botanical terminology, Zomlefer provides an illustrated glossary of 551 terms with more than 300 drawings. Other important tutorial features are twenty-two detailed charts that compare pertinent characteristics of certain related plant groups and a general chart that summarizes the salient features of the families covered in the text. Both amateurs and professionals will particularly enjoy the chapter on examining, dissecting, and sketching live material.

ISBN-13: 9780807844700

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

Publication Date: 01-27-1995

Pages: 448

Product Dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.91(d)

Dr. Wendy B. Zomlefer is a curator at the University of Georgia Herbarium. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in botany from the University of Florida and her B.S. in botany from the University of Vermont. She is a plant taxonomist with numerous scientific publications and also has over twenty-five years experience as a professional scientific illustrator.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Superbly executed. . . . An impressive amount of thought, labor, and firsthand experience with plants obviously went into this synthesis. . . . Zomlefer has written a scholarly but eminently readable book that is highlighted by her superb drawings.—Rudolf Schmid, Taxon



[The book] is as taxonomically accurate as it is beautiful, and fills a real need in the community of systematic botanists. Anyone who works with plants should own this book!—Walter S. Judd, Systematic Botany



It is rare that a textbook is also an important reference work for the professional botanist, but Zomlefer has made the information presented here so accessible, authoritative and up to date that anyone enthusiastic about plants should have the volume on their shelves.—Sandra Knapp, Nature



It is difficult to heap more praise on this widely praised work. . . . [Zomlefer has] created a book for taxonomists and for book lovers, a pleasure to hold and to open at any point.—Neil A. Harriman, Economic Botany



Both professionals and amateurs with interests in flowering plants will find a wealth of information in this beautifully illustrated text. It is highly recommended!—Castanea



This comprehensive atlas is up-to-date, well drawn, well planned, and user friendly. It is highly recommended as a supplement to a text on systematic principles or as a general reference in every botanist's library.—Roger W. Sanders, Sida



The illustrations are beyond description and are simply excellent. . . . This book is quite well done and would be invaluable to students and teachers at all levels of botanical experience. . . . You should have several copies: in the herbarium, in your office, and one at home.—T. Lawrence Mellichamp, ASB Bulletin



All families are well illustrated with beautifully and accurately rendered line drawings done by the author.—Choice



An impressive, informative, and beautifully illustrated text on 130 flowering plant families common to the temperate, sub-tropical, and tropical regions of the USA and Canada.—ASPT Newsletter



Wendy Zomlefer has written a scholarly but eminently readable book that is highlighted by her superb drawings. This work will be an invaluable tool in the taxonomy lab.—Rudolf Schmid, University of California, Berkeley