This clear, concise, and well-organized guide is a basic and essential text for the difficult work of identifying grasses. Intended for use in the classroom or in the field, the book contains over 500 drawings and an illustrated glossary.
Essential reading for both the amateur gardener and professional botanist, this is a definitive and comprehensive guide to all the native and naturalized grasses, sedges, rushes and ferns to be found in the British Isles, and all those that are frequently found in north-western Europe. Over 420 species are described and over 350 are illustrated in ...
A practical guide to growing ornamental grasses and related plants which outlines their many uses in the garden. Guidance on cultivation, care and using the most beautiful varieties is given in a comprehensive plant directory.
The first in a series of four illustrated guides identifying aquatic and standing water plants in the central Midwest, this convenient reference volume covers the 183 species of Cyperaceae. Robert H. Mohlenbrock includes three types of plants: sub-mergents, those that spend their entire lives with their vegetative parts either completely submerged ...
This second edition of Sedges: Cyperus to Scleria brings up to date the identification of species of sedges in Illinois (except Carex) since publication of the first edition in 1976. During the intervening years, several additions to the sedge flora of Illinois have been made, and many new distributional records have been added. Also, a large ...
The 14th volume of the "Illustrated Flora of Illinois" series. It presents a full illustrated showing of each of the 159 species of carex found in Illinois, offering detailed descriptions and information on individual identification, genus, habitat and vegetative and reproductive structures.
Weeds are the cause of great losses to crop production in the tropics and grassy weeds present a particular problem because of their similarity to cereal crop plants. It is therefore difficult to devise control methods and management practices appropriate for such weeds. This book reviews our current knowledge of this subject and is the outcome of ...
This volume, the sixth to be published in this monumental series, describes all sedges (Family Cyperaceae) known to occur in Illinois except for "Carex," " "which will be treated in a separate volume. Genera covered in this volume are "Cyperus," "Dulichium," "Eleocharis," "Bulbo-stylis," "Fimbristylis," "Lipocarpha," "Fuirena," "Scirpus," ...
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