Through a highly visual and easily accessible system, this reference organizes facts on 3,600 trees, shrubs, and vines. It encompasses 10,500 photographs, 2,000 maps, and 6,000 calendars of regional hardiness and nativity data, as well as more than 140,000 plant characteristics. If you are in search of native and exotic plants that satisfy explicit design criteria for use in parks, gardens, plazas, or city streets, you'll find North American Plantfile to be an invaluable tool. And if you are a botanist, forester, or devoted amateur gardener, the plantfile will help you easily identify and maintain plants growing in the fields, forests, and backyards of the United States, southern Canada, and northern Mexico. Each plant has been categorized in four primary areas: aesthetic merit, environmental suitability, cultural requirements, and functional uses. At the same time, more than 350 design criteria have been organized into a creative photo-and-icon format. Thus you can search and cross-reference rapidly, according to whatever requirements your project may demand.
- ISBN10 007028816X
- ISBN13 9780070288164
- Publish Date 1 August 1997
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 5 April 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 576
- Language English