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Covers monocots in North America north of Mexico. This volume comprises many groups of aquatic plants and the North American relatives of groups that have their richest number of species in the New World tropics.

Features taxonomic information on the diversity of plant life in the United States and Canada. More than 20,000 plant species are surveyed and classified, and this work is useful for those with an interest in the distribution, habitat, morphology, and survival of the wide-ranging plant life in the region.

Describes and classifies the ferns, fern allies, and gymnosperms of North America. This work surveys fern species of both ecological and horticultural importance and reviews such gymnosperm taxa as the conifers and cycads. It assembles 509 species of ferns and fern allies and infraspecific taxa in 70 genera.

Flora of North America North of Mexico Volume 6 - Magnoliophyta: Cucurbitaceae to Droseraceae - includes treatments prepared by 36 authors covering 545 species in 104 genera classified in 19 families. Among the families treated in this volume, the largest are Malvaceae (250 species), Violaceae (78), Hypericaceae (58), Cucurbitaceae (56), Cistaceae (40), and Passifloraceae (18). Descriptions for all of the families, genera, and species are provided plus occurrencemaps for species are included and 28% of the species are illustrated. Keys are included to aid in the identification of genera in families and species within the genera. Volume 6 is the nineteenth volume to be published in the planned 30-volume Flora of North America North of Mexico series.

Presents a treatment of mosses, including 32 of the acrocarpous families, with introductory chapters on bryophyte morphology, the history of North America floristic bryology, and economic uses. This book includes identification keys, descriptions, line drawings, and ecological characteristics for each of the species; distribution maps; and more.

Represents a comprehensive taxonomic guide to the diversity of plant life blanketing North America, north of Mexico. This series presents the herbarium, laboratory, and field work of many contributors. It is useful for botanists, conservationists, ecologists, agronomists, foresters, range and land managers, and horticulturists.

Represents a comprehensive taxonomic guide to the diversity of plant life blanketing North America, north of Mexico. This series presents the herbarium, laboratory, and field work of many contributors. It is useful for botanists, conservationists, ecologists, agronomists, foresters, range and land managers, and horticulturists.

A comprehensive taxonomic guide to the extraordinary diversity of plant life blanketing the continent north of Mexico. It is useful for botanists, conservationists, ecologists, agronomists, foresters, range and land managers, and horticulturists.

Provides information on many of the familiar wildflowers and trees in North America. This work includes treatments of the buttercup family (Ranunculacaeae), with such plants as delphiniums and columbines, and the poppy family (Papveraceae). It covers various broadleaf tree species, including the oaks, elms, birches, walnuts, and plane trees.

Part of the "Flora of North America" series, this book treats more than 910 species classified among 114 genera in 5 families in the following two orders of the subclass Dilleniidae: Salicales (Willow order) and Capparales (Caper order). It covers various families, including Salicaceae, Capparaceae, Brassicaceae, Moringaceae, Resedaceae, and more.

Part of the "Flora of North America" series of 19 volumes focusing on dicots. Each of the included species is illustrated with a line drawing that, in combination with the key and descriptions, facilitates identification of this economically important group of plants.

Third of a nineteen volume collection on dicots in the "Flora of North America" series. This work treats more than 740 species in 74 genera and three families in the orders of the subclass Caryophyllidae. Each of the genera treated in this volume has one or more representative species illustrated with a line drawing.

Flora of North America North of Mexico Volume 17 - Magnoliophyta: Tetrachondraceae to Orobanchaceae - includes an introductory chapter on the phylogeny and classification of Lamiales with emphasis on Scrophulariaceae in the broad sense plus treatments prepared by 53 authors covering 952 species in 95 genera classified in nine families. Among the families treated in this volume, the largest are Plantaginaceae (460 species), Orobanchaceae (292), Phrymaceae (139), Scrophulariaceae (45), and Linderniaceae (10). Additionally, three families included in the volume - Paulowniaceae (1), Pedaliaceae (2), and Mazaceae (2) - are known only by introduced species. Descriptions for all of the families, genera, and species (plus infraspecies, if recognized) are provided plus occurrence maps for species and infraspecies are included with more than 25% of the species illustrated. Keys are included to aid in the identification of genera in families and species plus infraspecies within the genera. Volume 17 is the twenty-first volume to be published in the planned 30-volume Flora of North America North of Mexico series.