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Flora of the Northeast
A Manual of the Vascular Flora of New England and Adjacent New York
Illustrated by Abigail Rorer
A comprehensive guide to more that 3,600 species of plants in greater New England
p>Designed as both a reference work and a year-round field manual, this volume contains more than 2,400 range maps and 995 line drawings. For botanists, naturalists, and students interested in an up-to-date treatment of the vascular flora of greater New England, it will be an invaluable resource.
The geographic scope of the work extends from the Canadian border south through Long Island and west to the Hudson River. The "General Keys" section contains fourteen keys that include such groups as aquatic plants, vines, and woody plants in winter condition. For both woody and herbaceous families, the keys cover flowering as well as fruiting condition.
The "Descriptive Flora" section includes keys to all of the genera and species, descriptions of the families and genera, and accounts of the individual species. The latter incorporate information on wetland site index, wildlife food value, food and medicinal value for humans, and poisonous or hallucinogenic properties.
The distributions of more than 2,400 species are presented on range maps, and the book includes line drawings of 995 species, showing diagnostic features designed to clarify descriptions used in the keys. Near the end of the volume there are two matrices of diagnostic characteristics, one for dicots and one for monocots. These matrices can be used to identify a specimen displaying limited information, or to find examples of given vegetative, flower, or fruit characteristics.
Throughout the book, the keys have been made as user-friendly as possible, employing short, concise couplets rather than long, cumbersome ones. Presenting a wealth of scientifically accurate information in a precise and clear format, this volume will be extremely useful as a reference work, as a textbook for courses in plant systematics, and as a field manual.
Dennis W. Magee is a vice president at Normandeau Associates Environmental Consultants, Bedford, New Hampshire. He is author of Freshwater Wetlands: A Guide to Common Indicator Plants of the Northeast (University of Massachusetts Press, 1981), among other books.
The late Harry E. Ahles was curator of the Herbarium at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and of the Herbarium at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was coauthor of the Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1965).
Botany / New England
Studies
1248 pp., 2433 range maps, 995 line drawings
LC 98-49300
$69.95s cloth, ISBN 1-55849-189-9
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