- Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Univ Pr of Florida; Auflage: annotated edition (April 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0813025729
- ISBN-13: 978-0813025728
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24 x 15,5 x 1,7 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 410.394 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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As the world's largest flowering plant family, orchids can be found growing natively in nearly every U.S. state and Canadian province. From as far north as Alaska and south to the Florida Keys, their delicate beauty and elusive appearance grace swamps and rockeries, forests and fields, delighting hobbyists and horticulturists alike. Founder and editor of the North American Native Orchid Journal, Brown has compiled an exhaustive guide to more than 220 species, 24 subspecies, and 24 hybrids found in the U.S and Canada. Presented in checklist form, each entry identifies the plant's taxonomy, listing both botanic and scientific names, and details the plant's native habitat. Close-up color photography and detailed line illustrations further aid in plant identification, with a separate photo gallery dedicated to unusual characteristics such as color, form, or growth habit. Extensively researched, meticulously organized, and thoughtfully compiled, this field guide's comprehensive scope will appeal to professional botanists and naturalists yet is direct enough to satisfy even amateur enthusiasts and collectors. Carol Haggas
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Wild orchids bloom in virtually every habitat of every state and province of the continental United States, Canada, and Greenland. Orchid fanciers and collectors - a large and fervent segment of the general public - will welcome Paul Martin Brown's comprehensive, illustrated checklist and field guide to the exotic world of these elegant and intriguing flowers. This annotated guide is packed with up-to-date information and enhanced by stunning color photographs and extraordinary drawings of each species, subspecies, and variety, many highlighting unusual color or growth forms. It provides identification, full distribution range, recent synonyms, and all subspecies varietal and forma information for all 247 taxa as well as comments about the special aspects of each species. Taxonomy and distribution data directly complement information in the Flora of North America project and the parallel dichotomous keys will be useful in the field. The guide covers 223 species, 24 subspecies and varieties, 103 growth and color forms, and 24 hybrids.With its personal checklist and easy-to-read format, Wild Orchids of North America is perfect for the hobbyist, while offering a concise scientific reference for naturalists, botanists, and advanced orchid enthusiasts.
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A disappointment, unfortunately.
13. Dezember 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
When a new field guide appears that is focused on a special group of plants, one anticipates that a lot of information will be presented about the subject of interest. Well-written field guides should contain at least a short paragraph discussing the details of the life histories, morphology, ranges, etc., of the creatures contained within. Range maps and proper illustrations are appropriate as well. This book does a minimal job of all of this. Although the photographs are nice, they are too small to glean all of the necessary details and some look altered by computer effects or printer error. Furthermore, the pen-and-ink drawings are awful, if at least in the sense of being useful for identifying the plants. The information provided in the text with each species is surprisingly limited, not revealing enough on the form, biology and geographic range of these plants. This lack of necessary detail can actually be misleading to the reader in their undrestanding of the species. This lack of detail also makes the book far less interesting than it could have been otherwise. The large taxonomic key in the back of the book is useful, but keys can not provide the user with a good mental image of the physical form of the plants, rather only of a very limited number of features, in contrast to what a proper textual description can provide. Furthermore, this book skips on some other necessary details, such as an incomplete bibliography, not listing all the references cited in the text, for example. The original sources for a book are important avenues for readers to learn more, therefore they should all be properly listed. The point of a field guide is to educate; if enthusiastic readers are unable to find necessary information due to the general lack of attention to detail in many, let alone most aspects of a guide, then that can not leave them confident that they have learned much of anything new, let alone be confident that they can identify the species properly.
I had high hopes for this book when I first heard of its printing, but unfortunately I find it to be one of the more disappointing field guides I have seen, for orchids or any subject. It is not a adequate substitute for old, classic orchid guides, such as Donovan Correll's book of similar title (Native Orchids of North America North of Mexico) and Carlyle Luer's book on the same topic (The native orchids of the United States and Canada, excluding Florida), or even books of half of that amount of content. Sadly, these two classic books are out of print and rare. Probably the best approach for the curious native orchidist is to purchase a set of state and regional orchid field guides that are loaded with interesting information, such as those by Case (western Great Lakes), Coleman (Arizona and the SW), Homoya (Indiana), Liggio (Texas), Smith (Minnesota) and others. The substance revealed about the lives of the orchids within these books is more than enough to allow the reader of several of these to put together the pieces of the wonderful puzzle of these very interesting plants. It would be quite useful to have a new book that integrates such information at the necessary and appropriate level for all of the North American orchid species, but "Wild Orchids of North America, North of Mexico" by Brown & Folsom is definitely not that book, although I had hoped that it would be. I am very disappointed and feel that it is not a worthwhile purchase.
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Disappointed
1. Mai 2003
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I have been awaiting the publication of this book for several months after I discovered it was forthcoming. If you are looking for a checklist of wild orchids with sharp color pictures then this is for you. For myself it lacked detailed information of the various orchids. This is likely not possible or the book would be too large to easily carry with you into the field. My suggestion is find an orchid book for your region that can concentrate on the local varieties. In my area of the Midwest, I would suggest "Orchids of the Western Great Lakes Region" by Frederick W. Case, Jr. That book is an older book but contains some very useful information.
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Orchids of North America
31. Mai 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
The book serves as good checklist for the North American species. It should not be construed as anything more than that. The photos are subpar.
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