Flora of North America : north of Mexico / edited by Flora of North America Editorial Committee.
To be published in 14 volumes over the next 12 years, this long-awaited synoptic compendium represents the first and only comprehensive taxonomic guide to the extraordinary diversity of plant life blanketing our continent north of Mexico--including Greenland and the St. Pierre and Miquelon islands....
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993-
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Physical Description: | volumes : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm |
Format: | Book |
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To be published in 14 volumes over the next 12 years, this long-awaited synoptic compendium represents the first and only comprehensive taxonomic guide to the extraordinary diversity of plant life blanketing our continent north of Mexico--including Greenland and the St. Pierre and Miquelon islands. The collaborative effort of more than 30 major U.S. and Canadian botanical institutions, it revises and synthesizes literally thousands of floristic monographs and regional floras published over the last three centuries. But more than that, it distills the original herbarium, laboratory, and field work of hundreds of contributors--all of them leading botanists and taxonomic authorities who have joined forces to develop this century's premier tool for identifying, understanding, and conserving North America's priceless floristic heritage. Concise, easy to use, and beautifully bound and illustrated, Flora of North America is an indispensable working resource for botanists, conservationists, ecologists, agronomists, foresters, range and land managers, horticulturists,--anyone with a serious interest in the distribution, habitat, morphology, and survival of the wide-ranging plant life around us. Each of its taxonomic volumes brings together the full spectrum of critical botanical data, from basic descriptions to chromosome numbers. The entries also correct erroneous information, qualify misapplied variant names, and note known hybridizations. Findings derived from recent experimental work and from numerical taxonomy are incorporated, and to assure accuracy, these data have been extensively reviewed and tested by cooperating taxonomic specialists. Volume 1 consists of a series of introductory essays by nearly two dozen noted botanical authorities. Among the topics covered are the transformation of North American plant life since the end of the Mesozoic era some 70 million years ago; the influence of geographic, climatic, and soil factors; the impact of human cultivation; great naturalists and their contributions to botany and floristics since the age of Columbus; and approaches to plant classification, with particular attention to the evolutionarily unique pteridophytes and gymnosperms that are covered in Volume 2. |
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Call Number: | QK110 .F55 1993 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 0195057139 (v. 1 : acid-free paper) 9780195057133 (v. 1 : acid-free paper) 0195082427 (v. 2 : acid-free paper) 9780195082425 (v. 2 : acid-free paper) 0195112466 (v. 3 : acid-free paper) 9780195112467 (v. 3 : acid-free paper) 0195173899 9780195173895 0195222113 9780195222111 0195340272 9780195340273 0195318226 9780195318227 9780195340266 0195340264 0195340299 9780195340297 0197576079 9780197576076 0197577970 9780197577974 0197577989 9780197577981 9780190643720 0190643722 9780190868512 0195305639 9780195305630 0195305647 9780195305647 0195305655 9780195305654 0195137299 9780195137293 0195152077 9780195152074 0195310713 9780195310719 0195167481 9780195167481 0195152085 9780195152081 0195318234 9780195318234 0190202750 9780190202750 |