The world would be a pretty drab place without flowers. Their bright cheery colours help make our natural environment a delightful place to be. But what are flowers really for? This book focuses on the essential role that flowers play in life's evolutionary scheme. It shows how they help attract insects and induce animals to help with pollination.
This photographic guide to grasses gives all who have been frustrated trying to identify these difficult plants an easy-to-use, visually precise, and information-packed field guide to seventy-seven native and introduced species that grow in the Texas Hill Country and beyond. With a blade of grass in hand, open this book and find: handy thumb ......
An Illustrated Guide to Their Identification and Control
This book will be an essential resource for land managers, nature lovers, property owners, farmers, landscapers, educators, botanists, foresters, and gardeners. Invasive plants are a growing threat to ecosystems everywhere. Often originating in distant climes, they spread to woodlands, wetlands, prairies, roadsides, and backyards that lack the ......
The southern Great Basin/northern Mojave desert region is home to several different Paiute and Shoshone peoples, all of whom speak languages in the Numic language family. These societies shared a way of life based mainly on harvesting wild plants, following an annual cycle of moving and gathering the seasonally abundant resources. Because of this, ......
Observations on Vegetation in the United States/Mexico Borderlands
Originating in a symposium on 'Vegetation and Flora of La Frontera' held at the American Institute of Biological Sciences to honour the late Forrest Shreve, pioneer desert ecologist, this collaboration of outstanding biologists, environmentalists, and climatologists from both sides of La Frontera presents a new agenda for study of the strikingly ......
Trees are the glory of the American landscape. A text of impeccable authority, drawings of matchless precision and delicacy, and fine photographs combine to make this beautiful edition an indispensable guide and valued possession. Pennsylvania, "Penn's Woods," is the meeting place of America's southern and northern tree flora: magnolia and ......
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship ......
