Description
This guide to common and unique plants found in forests of the Southeast thoroughly covers 330 species of forbs (herbaceous plants), grasses, vines, and shrubs, with a special emphasis on the plants' role in wildlife sustenance. Packed with detailed color photographs, the book is a must-have for forest landowners, game and wildlife managers, biologists, outdoors enthusiasts, students--anyone with an interest in the intricate and often unexpected interrelationships between the flora and fauna of our region's forests.
Features: Descriptions of native and nonnative (exotic or invasive) plants, including 330 species of forbs, in 180 genera: grasses, sedges, and rushes; woody vines and semiwoody plants; shrubs; palms and yucca; cane; cactus; ferns; and ground lichen650 color photosMap of physiographic provinces56 simple black-and-white drawings of flower parts, flower types, and inflorescences, leaf arrangements, leaf divisions, shapes, and margins, and parts of a grass plantGlossaryIndex of genera by family, index by wildlife species, and index of scientific and common namesAuthor: James H. Miller, Karl V. Miller
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 05/30/2005
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780820327488
ISBN10: 0820327484
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Plants | General
- Nature | Animals | Wildlife
About the Author
James H. Miller (Author)
JAMES H. MILLER is a research ecologist with the USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, at Auburn University.
KARL V. MILLER is an associate professor of wildlife ecology and management at the University of Georgia.