Product Description

More than 500 excellent color photos and easy-to-follow keys will help you identify nearly 700 wildflower and fern species found in Kentucky and surrounding states (including Southern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, Western West Virginia and Virginia, Northern Tennessee, and Eastern Missouri).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #734711 in Books
• Published on: 1971-07
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 344 pages

Review
"A most excellent guide." -- Choice

"The definitive volume on wildflowers in Kentucky." -- Southern Living

Customer Reviews

Good guide to KY Wildflowers and Ferns
This is a very good book showing many of the native wildflowers in the state of Kentucky. The pictures are very good and the plant information and descriptions are excellent. There are a few photos that are not ideal for identifying some species and the book arrangement is somewhat clumsy if this book is used as a field guide. It would have been better if the flowers were arranged by color. Other than that, this is a great book and a popular pick of my students when they have to identify native species for a wildflower collection.

excellent beginner's book
Not only is this book an excellent source for identifying Kentucky wildflowers, it is an excellent source for identifying wildflowers, ferns, etc., for the Central Basin and Smoky Mountains in Tennessee as well.

A fine book for making the most of your hikes......
My wife Brenda and I have used this book numerous times at our place in Kentucky and during our hikes in the Smokies. Even though the title specifies Kentucky we found the book very useful in Tennessee during our romps in the Great Smokey Mountains. A Notable feature that is very handy is the "roomy look" of the layout. There is copious amount of white space on every page. We used that to make notes and scribbles. Now when I turn to any page I recall the spring or fall at Clingman's Dome, Cumberland Gap or a dozen other places.

Some of the pictures are not quite as good. For example, on page 157, the snapshot of Prostrate Eryngo (E. yuccifolium) is misleading. In spite of minor quibbles this is a book well worth having. I must warn you that because of the glossy pages the book does weigh between two and three pounds which is significant when one is scrambling up an incline.

A real memory-maker!