Common Wild Flowers And Plants Of Nova Scotia

This handy guide by plant specialist Diane LaRue includes over forty common wildflowers, twenty-five shrubs, twenty grasses and lichens, as well as some noxious weeds that are common along Nova Scotia's roadways. Beautiful colour photos enhance the book's appeal and are combined with extensive research and observation, which make this guide a valuable tool for anyone interested in the common plants of the province. Includes Black-Eyed Susans and Lupines, as well as the little known Tansy and Ragged Robin wildflowers.

This beautiful pocketguide helps you learn about and identify many common and rare wildflowers in Canada's Maritime provinces. Features include: Full-colour photographsDetailed information and descriptionsOrganized by seasonGrouped by colour for quick identification.

"Wild Flowers Worth Knowing" is a book about plants or any flowers authored by Neltje Blanchan, a United States scientific historian and nature writer who published several books on wildflowers and birds. It covers mostly North American species, with a sprinkling of cosmopolitans and it contains illustrations accompanying the text, which is arranged by plant family under the classification system of Gray's New Manual of Botany.

Spring Wildflower is a handy field guide that will help you identify most flowers that bloom in the spring. It is well organized, easy to follow and features fine pen and ink drawings of almost 250 flowering plants.

A stunning pictorial guide to the wildflowers of Maritime Canada. For anyone who has ever driven a Maritime highway and marveled at the cover of wildflowers along an embankment, or happened on a meadow filled with flowers, this book will provide hours of happy discovery. In this wildflower collection, photographer Mary Primrose offers up a vivid display of nature at its finest. For many years, she explored Maritime woodlands, shores and meadows, intent on discovering the first blooms of spring that bid farewell to winter. Among the many common and rare plants featured are Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema stewardsonii), Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria) and Sea-lavender (Limonium carolinianum). The accompanying text by Marian Munro provides details to help identify and locate each plant featured in the collection.

Identification is the first major step towards a greater appreciation and understanding of our natural environment. Wildflowers of Eastern Canadawas written to meet the needs of hikers, students, amateur naturalists, resource professionals, or anyone looking for an affordable, compact, easy-to-follow guide to take with them into the field. Discover the wide array of wildflowers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland with detailed photographs, drawings, and profile descriptions that include information on a plant’s origins, leaves, flowers, fruits, frequency, habitat, and range. Edmund Redfield profiles 150 species of wildflowers from 53 plant families in an organized and easily accessible way.