Product Description

A Field Guide to the Plants of Arizona is the only rich and unique flora of the Grand Canyon State. From deserts to mountaintops, grasslands and chaparral, this handy volume enables both amateur and professionals to quickly and accurately identify Arizona plants form ferns to cacti, wildflowers to trees.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55917 in Books
• Published on: 1997-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781560445630
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
More than 900 color photographs and descriptive text identify Arizona's unique flora, including wildflowers, cacti, trees, and other plant life.

Customer Reviews

Best book for identifying the desert wildflowers of Arizona
Over the years, I've purchased a dozen or more books to identify desert wildflowers photographed during Superstition Wilderness hikes. This is by far the best book that I've found.
- Clear closeup photos that capture the distinctiveness of each flower
- Informative details: Height, Flowers, Stems, Spines, Bloom months, Elevation, Habitat, and Comments

The "Look inside" pages were poorly choosen--the book is better than portrayed. (Ferns aren't as visually exciting as flowers and no description pages were included.)

Check out the index to see the depth of the coverage.

excellent Resource book especially for collectors of plants.
There is no current book available that discusses the plants of this state. I believe the last comprehensive book was printed in the 70's. This is a good comprehensive guide with many colorful photographs, and lots of good information.

Well-Organized, Attractive, Useful Arizona Plant ID Book
This book has been an amazing help to me in identifying trees, cacti and flowers around the state of Arizona. It is well-organized, with glossy color pictures in the front half of the book, grouped by color in a relatively easy-to-find way, under descriptions such as "Daisylike and Dandionlike White or Whitish Flowers" or "Tiny Pink to Reddish Pink Flowers." Under each photograph is the flower's common name and the page number for the back portion of the book, in which detailed information is found.

In the back section, each plant's description includes: All the known common names; the scientific name and family to which it belongs; the plant's height; detailed, non-scientific description of the flowers and leaves; the bloom season; the elevation at which the plant grows; the habitat in which it is found; and additional, relevant comments, including where the photograph was taken and if the plant is poisonous, or has any traditional medical uses, etc.

My only disappointment is that, surely for brevity's sake, some plants are left out, which, while understandable, can make some identifications questionable. For instance, in trying to ID a high-elevation paintbrush, the book mentions "Over a dozen species of Castilleja in Arizona; the species of this genus are difficult to identify." And only four of those dozen species are in the book. Still, with 853 species pictured and described, Plants of Arizona is much more thorough for the state of Arizona than any other field guide out there.