Grasses: An Identification Guide (Sponsored by the Roger Tory Peterson Institute)

By Alec Clifton-Taylor

Book Overview

How to identify 135 of the most common species of North American grasses, sedges, and rushes, with their economic and ecological importance. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395276241
• ISBN13: 9780395276242
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.

Customer Reviews

great grass identification book

This is a very nice, simple identification book. I very much appreciate the drawings, every grass has at least one page with drawings sometimes of different stages of the life cycle, there is an identification guide in the beginning of the book,and a glossery of terms in the back. I am a beginning grass identifier; this is my first grass identification book and I think it is a terrific choice.

Grasses: An Identification Guide

I love being able to identify all the difference grasses. This one covers more than I need but is wonderful to have for reference when traveling

VERY HANDY NE GRASS FIELD GUIDE

I bought this book when it first came out, and it's still the only basic Northeastern grass ID book available. Though it has some shortcomings and isn't comprehensive, it is an easy-to-use field guide that identifies the most common grasses in this area. It also includes a number of rushes and sedges. The key is simple but effective. The drawings aren't greatly detailed, but usually highlight the main identification features...

Fantastic Book

I am a former student of Mrs. Brown, from her Botany class at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. This guide is outstanding, and her original illustrations are genuine. As of the time of the original publication, there was absolutely nothing at all to guide students to identify grasses. Other guides copied the concept, but Lauren's is still the pioneer in this field.

Good for Beginners

This has got to be best "first book" generally available for anyone with the least passing interest in wild plants to buy and use to discover the spectacular world of sedges and rushes, as well as grasses, especially if you are thinking about looking more carefully at wild plants in the northeast. It marked--and sparked-- the very beginning of my own personal interest in botany, guided my first field trips into the New Jersey...