Fern Finder: A Guide to Native Ferns of Central and Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada (Nature Study Guides) - Softcover

Hallowell, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912550244 ISBN 13: 9780912550244

Publisher: Nature Study Guild, 1981

Synopsis

Easily Identify the Ferns You Find!

Enjoy learning to identify ferns with this guide from authors Anne Hallowell and Barbara Hallowell. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of ferns in no time. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a hike or a walk in the woods.

Features:

• Provides information to help you identify native ferns that grow in the United States Midwest and Northeast, as well as eastern Canada
• Uses a dichotomous key, like other plant guides in the Nature Study Guides Finders series
• Leads the user step-by-step through a series of choices, culminating in the identification of the species
• Includes a large number of illustrations with line drawings

About this title

About the Author

Anne C. Hallowell and Barbara Hallowell; Illustrated by Anne C. Hallowell

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If pinnae are irregular in shape, and stipe and lower rachis are dark, it is Scott's SpleenwortAsplenium ebonies

If pinnae are similar in shape, and stipe is dark only at the base, it is Lobed SpleenwortA. pinnatifidum

4-8 in

10-20cm

10-20 in

25.5-51cm

Edition details

• Publisher: Nature Study Guild
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912550244
• ISBN 13: 9780912550244
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Hallowell Anne C.
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 64