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   BOTANICAL  TOURS

Want to Learn more Plants? Learn Plant Families!

3/18/2018

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"Plant Families: A Guide for Gardeners and Botanists" by Ross Bayton and Simon Maughan (University of Chicago Press, $25): This practical and fact-filled book begins with a plant family tree that provides a visual overview of the basic order of plant evolution and the relationships between them.
A brief evolutionary history offers the reader a clear understanding of how plants came to have the level of diversity we see today.
Plant identification and anatomy are described in great depths.
The richest part of the 224-page book, for me as a gardener, is each chapter is focused on a plant family and contains useful information about the size, range, origins and anatomical features. The illustrations of plants and their anatomical parts are excellent. "Uses For" boxes offer helpful tips for everyday gardening use.
"Plant Families" ends with a glossary of botanical terms that is complete and well organized.
The authors have written an amazing guide filled with botanical information and exacting illustrations and diagrams. This book can help the gardener, botanist or horticulturist "make sense of -- and better appreciate-- the enormous biological diversity of the plant kingdom."
Written by Sally Peterson
Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2018/03/plant_families_bayton_maughan.html#article










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Mary Kaye
3/19/2018 10:12:04 pm

Dear Katherine,

I have been following your blog and enjoying your fabulous slide shows!

Now, I'm happy to see that you are including recommendations for worth-while books on plants, gardening, etc. What a Great Idea!

In the future, can you include a photo of the book cover?

Thanks for your wonderful blog. I hope to read more of your articles soon.

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Katherine Wagner-Reiss link
3/20/2018 09:11:17 am

Mary Kaye, Thank you for your positive and helpful comments. You can see an image of the cover in the original blog, which I give as my source: http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2018/03/plant_families_bayton_maughan.html#article
In the future, I will try to provide book cover photos immediately attached to the blog text, much more convenient, I agree with you!

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M. K.
3/20/2018 04:49:06 pm

WOW! What a cover! Makes me want to rush right out to order a copy.
Thanks, Katherine for being so helpful!
M.K.

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    Katherine Wagner-Reiss has her botany Certificate from the New York Botanical Garden, where she is a volunteer tour guide.
    She has a special interest in native plants and in  the scientific and the common names of plants.

    She credits Botanary and Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder  and Wikipedia  and Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners by William T. Stern ( 1992) as the  excellent sources of most of the etymologies of plant names on this site.

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