Prairie in Your Pocket: A Guide to Plants of the Tallgrass Prairie (Bur Oak Guide). This item is unavailable.Prairie in Your Pocket: A Guide to Plants of the Tallgrass Prairie (Bur Oak Guide)

In recent years, plant lovers and environmentalists have cultivated a popular interest in prairie restoration. Many of the most common prairie plants are now easily visible along roadsides and park trails (not to mention in gardens) throughout the Midwest.

Prairie in Your Pocket offers an easy-to-use and inexpensive guide for identifying more than one hundred of the most common plants of the tallgrass prairie. Ideal for travelers, the guide is laminated for durability and folds down to the size of a business envelope. Slip one into your glove compartment for road trips or into your backpack or pocket for cycling and hiking.

By focusing on one ecosystem, Prairie in Your Pocket is perfect for amateurs as an introduction to prairie plant identification. It is the only guide of its kind for identifying tallgrass species. The guide provides color illustrations along with common and scientific names, plant heights, and blooming periods for 114 species.

Illustrator Mark Mller has sketched and photographed the world from Alaska to Antarctica. He is currently a freelance illustrator living on a farmstead near Iowa City. His work includes An Illustrated Guide to Iowa Prairie Plants (Iowa, 1999) and numerous posters and pamphlets for the Iowa Department of Transportation.