Winter Weed Finder: A Guide to Dry Plants in Winter (Nature Study Guides) - Softcover

Miller, Dorcas S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912550171 ISBN 13: 9780912550176

Publisher: Nature Study Guild, 1989

Synopsis

Easily Identify the Weeds You Find, Even in the Winter!

Enjoy learning to identify weeds in the wintertime with this guide from celebrated author Dorcas Miller. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of weeds in no time. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a hike.

Features:

• Provides a key to identifying non-woody plants in late fall and winter by the dried structures that remain after frost, such as pods, dried flower heads, seed capsules, and burrs
• Includes common native and naturalized herbs and native ferns
• Covers the upper Midwest and eastern United States north of South Carolina, as well as eastern Canada
• Includes illustrations with line drawings

About this title

About the Author

This book was written by Dorcas S. Miller of Chelsea, Maine, author of several guidebooks in the series. Two-color Ilustrations are by Ellen Amendolara.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

The Parsley Family is a large and complex group, so it's difficult to identify individual species without the flower. Common species include:

Wild Parsnip
Pastinaca sativa

Sweet Cicely
Osmorbiza claytoni

Queen Anne's Lace
Daucus carota

Edition details

• Publisher: Nature Study Guild
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912550171
• ISBN 13: 9780912550176
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Amendolara Ellen
• Number of pages: 64