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Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska
Iralee Barnard
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Description for Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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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