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Title: Grasses : An Identification Guide by Lauren Brown ISBN: 0-395-62881-4 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 30 April, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Useable, but flawed
Comment: As another review noted the range of this book is limited, from Minnesota to Kentucky and Maryland south, and north to Maine, although some of the grasses are more widespread. The copyright date is 1979 and while that does not disqualify it, it has not been updated. It suffers from 1) poor reproduction of the line drawings which are supposedly "as beautiful as they are exact" - they aren't either in this edition, being too small and with line details running together to show nothing but a black blob in many cases, and 2) no photographs, which I have come to expect of any decent field guide nowadays (especially in the absence of GOOD line drawings!). Also, the grasses are organized "by visual similarity, not always by taxonomic grouping." I'd prefer the latter.
On the plus side it has a useable key and often interesting information is presented for a species. I'll keep this book, but I would have bought something else had I known!
Rating: 4
Summary: Good for Beginners
Comment: This has got to be best "first book" generally available for anyone with the least passing interest in wild plants to buy and use to discover the spectacular world of sedges and rushes, as well as grasses, especially if you are thinking about looking more carefully at wild plants in the northeast. It marked--and sparked-- the very beginning of my own personal interest in botany, guided my first field trips into the New Jersey Pine Barrens, led me to a botanical club and courses in sedge identification, and ultimately opened up the world of botany to me. I was so excited I wanted to call the author and thank her for writing this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Good only for the Northeast
Comment: I am also a biologist, and was not particularly thrilled with the book. The drawings are decent, but the amateur key used to limit your choices is too amateur. The distribution of covered species is strictly for the Northeastern U.S., except for the occasional wide-spread grasses. If your not in the Northeast, another guide would be more benefical.
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Title: Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes of the Northern United States by Edward Knobel ISBN: 048623505X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1977 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: How to Identify Grasses & Grasslike Plants: Sedges and Rushes by H. D. Harrington, Robin Hause, Ann Steely ISBN: 0804007462 Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Manual of the Grasses of the United States Volume 1 by A. S. Hitchcock U.S. Dept. of Agriculture ISBN: 0486227170 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1971 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Newcomb's Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb ISBN: 0316604429 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 13 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Common Weeds of the United States by U.S. Dept. of Agriculture ISBN: 0486205045 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1971 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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