Plant Taxonomy 2e

The revised edition of Plant Taxonomy is designed to present the current principles, practices and techniques of plant taxonomy and contemporary classifications, and also to describe important angiospermic families and groups. It provides a broad and up-to-date synthesis of this active and fascinating field of botany in the most effective manner.

Plant classification; Evolution and units of classification; Plant structures; Collecting and identifying techniques; Nomenclature; Phylogeny and biosystematics; Taxonomy in North America; Important families and their characters.

This book explains in simple terms how plants are classified and named.

A revised and fully updated edition encourages the reader to view existing classification systems objectively as it reflects upon the rapid advances that have occurred since the first edition's publication.