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A definitive new wildflower guide with over 600 color photographs

For decades, Wilbur and Marion Duncan have been considered the leading experts on the flora of the southeastern United States. Now they have developed a useful new guide to identify wildflowers found east of the Mississippi River. Richly illustrated, this guide describes more than 1100 wildflowers that can be found in our woods, parks, mountain trails or dunes, and even floating in streams. Whether you are a resident or visitor, an amateur naturalist or a professional botanist, Wildflowers of the Eastern United States will be a welcome addition to your library, car, or knapsack.

Thorough: Covers more than 1100 species of wildflowers found east of the Mississippi, from Maine to northern Florida, including forbs, grasses, rushes, and sedges; more than 700 of these species also are found west of the Mississippi.

Useful: Includes both common and scientific names. The succinct descriptions and color photographs provide the most easily recognizable characteristics necessary for positive identification of each species.

Accessible: Language is kept as simple as possible so that hobbyists as well as specialists will find the book accurate and easy to use. A glossary and line drawings define and illustrate botanical terminology, and the authors provide a brief guide to plant structure.

Informative: Describes range, blooming season, and typical habitat for each species. A list of plants with unusual characteristics is a further aid to identification.

Wilbur H. Duncan and Marion B. Duncan have long encouraged the appreciation and preservation of our natural vegetation through their well-known writings on the plant life of the eastern United States. They are coauthors of the Smithsonian Guide to Seaside Plants and Trees of the Southeastern United States (Georgia). Wilbur H. Duncan is coauthor, with Leonard E. Foote, of Wildflowers of the Southeastern United States (Georgia) and professor emeritus of botany at the University of Georgia. The Duncans have resided in Athens, Georgia, since 1940.

ISBN 0820321079 cloth • $34.95

A volume in the seriesWormsloe Foundation Publications