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Orchids in Your Pocket: A Guide to the Native Orchids of Iowa (Bur Oak Guide)
Bill Witt
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Description for Orchids in Your Pocket: A Guide to the Native Orchids of Iowa (Bur Oak Guide)
Along with color photographs of all thirty-two species, this work, part of "Iowa's" series of laminated guides, includes common and scientific names, habitat (prairie, woodland, wetland) and distribution, height, approximate time of blooming, status, and potential for hybridization. Series: A Bur Oak Guide. Num Pages: 32 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBNF; PST; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 106 x 231 x 3. Weight in Grams: 68.
From 1843, when the first collections were made, until 1987, when an amateur botanist discovered the only known Iowa site for spring ladies tresses, thirty-two species of orchids have been recorded in Iowa. The state's wild orchids range in size from the three-inch-tall delicately blossomed nodding pogonia of the eastern woodlands to the three-foot-tall floral spike of the western prairie fringed orchid and in color from whites and pale pastels to buttery yellows and passionate pinks. Flower shapes run the gamut, too, from the tight-lipped parsimony of the fall coral-root to the cheerful roundness of the yellow lady's-slipper. Along with ... Read more
From 1843, when the first collections were made, until 1987, when an amateur botanist discovered the only known Iowa site for spring ladies tresses, thirty-two species of orchids have been recorded in Iowa. The state's wild orchids range in size from the three-inch-tall delicately blossomed nodding pogonia of the eastern woodlands to the three-foot-tall floral spike of the western prairie fringed orchid and in color from whites and pale pastels to buttery yellows and passionate pinks. Flower shapes run the gamut, too, from the tight-lipped parsimony of the fall coral-root to the cheerful roundness of the yellow lady's-slipper. Along with ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Condition
New
Series
A Bur Oak Guide
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781587294990
SKU
V9781587294990
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