The Botanist's Bookshelf: 8 Books on Plant Identification
Field Guides to Wildflowers, Trees, Mushrooms, and North American Plant TaxonomyBy Frances Theodora Parsons, D. M. Crooks, Leonard Wheeler Kephart, Roy Watling, M. J. Richardson, Robert H. Mohlenbrock, Henry A. Gleason, Wilbur R. Mattoon, C. B. Webster, A. B. Brooks
Length37h 17m
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The Botanist's Bookshelf: 8 Books on Plant Identification gathers a practical and historically resonant body of writing devoted to the art and science of recognizing plants. Across field-guide prose, systematic descriptions, diagnostic keys, and habitat-centered observation, the volume demonstrates that identification is both an intellectual discipline and a cultivated way of seeing. Its selections range from accessible guidance for the amateur naturalist to more exacting taxonomic treatments, illuminating the visual, ecological, and linguistic methods by which flora become knowable. The contributing botanists and natural-history writers represent a broad tradition of North American botanical instruction. Their combined work reflects the development of popular field botany alongside professional systematics, bringing together attention to leaf, flower, fruit, bark, range, and season with the classificatory precision of modern botanical study. These varied voices situate plant identification within conservation-minded natural history and the longstanding effort to make scientific knowledge legible beyond specialist circles. Recommended for students, gardeners, hikers, teachers, and readers of environmental writing, this collection offers an unusually rich comparative encounter with botanical practice. It invites readers to test differing descriptive styles and identification strategies while gaining a deeper appreciation of plants as individual organisms, ecological presences, and subjects of scientific inquiry. As a single-volume library of perspectives, it fosters productive dialogue between observation, taxonomy, and wonder.
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GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length37 hrs 17 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1How to Know the Ferns
26A WIDESPREAD MENACE TO HEALTH
2How to Know the Ferns
27POISONING
3PREFACE
28Forest Trees of Illinois
4WHEN AND WHERE TO FIND FERNS
29Forest Trees of Illinois
5FERN DESCRIPTIONS
30Introduction
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6GROUP IV FERTILE AND STERILE FRONDS LEAF-LIKE AND SIMILAR; SPORANGIA ON OR BENEATH A REFLEXED PORTION OF THE MARGIN
31Trees of Illinois (pt. 1)
7GROUP VI FERTILE AND STERILE FRONDS LEAF-LIKE AND USUALLY SIMILAR, FRUIT-DOTS ROUND
32Trees of Illinois (pt. 2)
8INDEX TO LATIN NAMES
33Special Places to Study Trees
9INDEX TO TECHNICAL TERMS
34Footnote
10Identification of the Larger Fungi
35The Plants of Michigan. Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State
11PREFACE
36PREFACE
12INTRODUCTION
37GROUP 2, UNUSUAL PLANTS
13Key to the major classes of Larger Fungi
38THE PLANTS OF MICHIGAN (pt. 1)
14A. AGARICS AND THEIR RELATIVES
39THE PLANTS OF MICHIGAN (pt. 2)
155. Claudopus
40THE PLANTS OF MICHIGAN (pt. 3)
16B. BRACKET-FUNGI AND THEIR RELATIVES
41West Virginia Trees
17C. THE JELLY FUNGI
42PREFACE
18D. THE STOMACH FUNGI
43PINACEAE—THE PINE FAMILY
19G. APPENDIX
44WHITE PINE
20Keys to Fungi on Dung
45PITCH PINE
21INTRODUCTION
46TABLE MOUNTAIN PINE
22Key 2. Perithecial, pseudothecial, cleistothecial and gymnothecial fungi
47YELLOW PINE
23Key 3. Basidiomycota
48JERSEY OR SCRUB PINE
24Key 4. Zygomycota
49TAMARACK
25Poison-ivy, Poison-oak and Poison Sumac: Identification, Precautions and Eradication
50RED SPRUCE
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