Grasses are the foremost plant family of prairies, savannas, barrens, many agricultural landscapes, lawns, and successional habitats throughout Wisconsin, yet they are notoriously difficult to identify. This field guide to 232 species of Wisconsin grasses includes more than 1,100 illustrations. Setting a new standard as the first new, illustrated midwestern grass identification manual to appear since the 1960s, it provides up-to-date, comprehensive information for naturalists, gardeners, landscapers, nursery horticulturalists, community restoration professionals, agronomists and biologists, and any outdoors lover.
The book includes:species descriptions and distribution maps for all 232 speciesmore than 700 color photographs accompanying species descriptionsdrawings of most specieschapters on grass morphology and grasses in natural communitieskeys to all species, including an illustrated key to generaa glossary of grass terminology.
- ISBN10 1322496749
- ISBN13 9781322496740
- Publish Date 1 January 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 357
- Language English