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Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska
Iralee Barnard
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Paperback. Profusely illustrated with 415 color photographs, line drawings, and distribution maps, this practical guide describes 70 of the most common central North American grasses within the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. Num Pages: 256 pages, colour illustrations, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: TVK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
Once covered by wild grasses, America’s heartland is by nature a grassland, populated with plants whose ecological importance, practical value and subtle beauty we are only now beginning to comprehend. Of the 3,000 species of wild plants in Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, in the heart of the heartland, only two of every ten are grasses and in some prairies just one or two of these can account for 80-90 percent of the ground cover. It is these major wild grasses, the native and the naturalised, that this field guide covers, as well as some not found in such large numbers but nonetheless widespread and easily noticed.
From the more familiar (like big bluestem, little bluestem, Indiangrass, switchgrass, buffalograss, sideoats grama and blue grama) to the less recognised (such as ticklegrass, rice cutgrass and prairie wedgegrass), from the weedy to the desirable, each of the seventy species profiled in these pages appears in full-colour, its fundamental characteristics clearly identifiable by novice and expert alike: flowers and seed heads, leaf details with size comparisons and whole mature plant pictures.
Though of ever broadening interest - to ranchers, gardeners, naturalists and restorers of prairies and native landscapes - grasses are notoriously tricky to identify. A number of features of this guide make the task considerably easier. A handy system of “finding lists” allows a user to navigate quickly to identification of an unknown grass. Descriptions, written in clear and easily understood terms, focus on the primary characteristics of each species and are accompanied by distribution maps. And an illustrated glossary, leaf comparison section and table of grass flowering dates provide additional information and opportunities for recognising and appreciating various species.
Putting these plants into ecological and cultural context, botanist and grass specialist Iralee Barnard gives readers, whether curious amateur, passionate naturalist, or professional, a new way of understanding the grasses of America’s prairies and plains - to include their plant structures and adaptations, their natural history, ecological associations and cultural importance.
From the more familiar (like big bluestem, little bluestem, Indiangrass, switchgrass, buffalograss, sideoats grama and blue grama) to the less recognised (such as ticklegrass, rice cutgrass and prairie wedgegrass), from the weedy to the desirable, each of the seventy species profiled in these pages appears in full-colour, its fundamental characteristics clearly identifiable by novice and expert alike: flowers and seed heads, leaf details with size comparisons and whole mature plant pictures.
Though of ever broadening interest - to ranchers, gardeners, naturalists and restorers of prairies and native landscapes - grasses are notoriously tricky to identify. A number of features of this guide make the task considerably easier. A handy system of “finding lists” allows a user to navigate quickly to identification of an unknown grass. Descriptions, written in clear and easily understood terms, focus on the primary characteristics of each species and are accompanied by distribution maps. And an illustrated glossary, leaf comparison section and table of grass flowering dates provide additional information and opportunities for recognising and appreciating various species.
Putting these plants into ecological and cultural context, botanist and grass specialist Iralee Barnard gives readers, whether curious amateur, passionate naturalist, or professional, a new way of understanding the grasses of America’s prairies and plains - to include their plant structures and adaptations, their natural history, ecological associations and cultural importance.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619450
SKU
V9780700619450
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Ref
99-99
About Iralee Barnard
Iralee Barnard is a retired botanist who worked with the National Park Service at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Chase County, Kansas.
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