Weeds of the South (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) |  | Author: Charles T. Bryson
Creators: Michael S. DeFelice, Arlyn W. Evans
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 512
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.2
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0820330469
Dewey Decimal Number: 632.50975
EAN: 9780820330464
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Product Description
Weeds threaten the safe, efficient, and sustainable production of food, feed, fiber, and biofuel throughout the world. Featuring more than fifteen hundred full-color photographs, this handy guide provides essential information on four hundred of the most troublesome weedy and invasive plants found in the southern United States.Drawing on the expertise of more than forty weed scientists and botanists, the guide identifies each plant at various stages of its life and offers useful details about its origin, habitat, morphology, biology, distribution, and toxic properties. The book also includes illustrations of the most common characteristics of plants and the terms used to describe them, a key to plant families, a glossary of frequently used terms, a bibliography, and indexes of scientific and common plant names. Each species account includes
- Up to four full-color photographs showing seed, seedling, plant, flower, and other unique plant features
- Distribution map
- For grasses, a line drawing of the collar (where the leaf joins the stem), an important identifying characteristic
- Scientific names, common names, and local synonyms of common names
- Vegetative characteristics for seedlings and leaves
- Special identifying characteristics, reproductive characteristics, and toxic properties
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WOW!!! August 3, 2009
Plant Soil Sciences (Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is a must have for Master Gardeners, do-it-yourself gardeners, naturalists, farmers, agricultural consultants, extension agents, anyone that works with weed identification. The images are excellent. The descriptions of weeds are easy to understand. Over 400 weed species are described in this outstanding reference guide.
Weeds - Not limited to the South September 12, 2009
mayfly223
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The specified coverage range of this book is basically east of the Trans-Pecos, most of Oklahoma, SE half of KS, much of MO, southern third of IL, IN, and OH, and including Delaware and Maryland. The distribution maps however identify the full plant range throughout continental U.S. and Canada. Very useful.
Organized by Family, including nice photos of seeds & seedlings. Drawings of grass ligules and their local area. Basically 70% dicots, 30% monocots. At about 8"x10", it won't fit in your pocket. This book has earned its five stars.
Field guide December 5, 2009
K. Millspaugh
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Book arrived in a timely fashion and was in condition promised. I am still looking for a more complete reference on Southern weeds, however.
weeds book review October 26, 2009
J. Glover (Stuttgart,AR USA)
This is the best reference material on my native weeds that I have found. The illustrations are of good quality and I will be using them in 2010 to identify unwanted plants in rice production in southeast Arkansas.
A Great Guide to Weeds January 26, 2010
John D. Madsen (Starkville, MS, USA)
Weeds of the South is an outstanding book; it balances covering the most common weeds of the region with still being portable enough to carry in the field. The photos are nothing short of outstanding; each life stage of each species covered has a reference photo. Although not intended as a text book, I am recommending it to all my undergraduate and graduate students.
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