Weeds of Kentucky and Adjacent States: A Field Guide

by Patricia Dalton Haragan

Overview

Because of its central location and geographical diversity, Kentucky is home today to perhaps the richest diversity of non-native plants east of the Rocky Mountains, and weeds make up a large component of the state's flora and vegetation. Many of Kentucky's weeds are immigrants that came to the New World from the Old and were brought to Kentucky by travelers, explorers, and settlers. This guide to the identification of 160 weeds commonly found in crops, pastures, turf, and along roadsides provides ecological, geographical, and ethnobotanical information with each species description. It is the most extensive reference on weeds in this botanically unique area. A must for all agriculturalists, naturalists and botanists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813133690
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	09/22/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	963,678
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Patricia Dalton Haragan is the author of Weeds of Kentucky and Adjacent States: A Field Guide and Wildflowers of the Northeast in the Audubon Fairchild Garden. She is a former botanist for Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy and a former curator of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Herbarium.

Editorial Reviews

A companion on a backyard, field or roadside tour for an appreciation of the immense variety and beauty of some of the region's most common plants.

Now & Then

Valuable for readers in the states on Kentucky's perimeter. Excellent pen and inks accompany the text descriptions.

Foster's Botanical & Herb Reviews

A beautifully illustrated, easy-to-use guide to the identification of 160 weeds commonly found in crops, pastures, turf, and along roadsides.

University Press Book News

Useful in the specific area it covers as well as in a large part of North America.

Choice

"A beautifully illustrated, easy-to-use guide to the identification of 160 weeds commonly found in crops, pastures, turf, and along roadsides." -- University Press Book News

"A companion on a backyard, field or roadside tour for an appreciation of the immense variety and beauty of some of the region's most common plants." -- Now & Then

"Useful in the specific area it covers as well as in a large part of North America." -- Choice

"Valuable for readers in the states on Kentucky's perimeter. Excellent pen and inks accompany the text descriptions." -- Foster's Botanical & Herb Reviews

From the Publisher

A beautifully illustrated, easy-to-use guide to the identification of 160 weeds commonly found in crops, pastures, and turf, and along roadsides. Each species is described, along with ecological, geographical, and ethnobotanical information. For agriculturalists, naturalists, and botanists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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