Details

Subject(s)

• Botany—Iowa [Browse]
• Phytogeography—Iowa [Browse]

Related name

• Roosa, Dean M. [Browse]

Series

• Bur oak original. [More in this series]
• A Bur oak original

Summary note

Anyone who works with the vascular plants of Iowa-researchers, conservationists, teachers, agricultural specialists, horticulturists, gardeners, and so on-and those who are simply interested in knowing more about the state's plants have long felt a need for a comprehensive flora of Iowa. This meticulously researched volume is a giant first step toward such a flora.This book consists of an extended essay on the natural history of the vascular plants of Iowa, a discussion of their origins, a description of the state's natural regions, and a painstakingly annotated checklis

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language note

English

Contents

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Iowa and Its Flora; The Physical Setting; Glacial History; Vegetational History Since the Pleistocene; The Natural Regions of Iowa; Origins of the Iowa Flora; Introduction to the Annotated Checklist; Background; The Checklist Format; Excluded Species; Summary Tables; County Abbreviations; The Annotated Checklist; Pteridophytes; Gymnosperms; Angiosperms: Dicotyledons; Angiosperms: Monocotyledons; Index of Taxa and Synonyms; Index of Common Names; Selected References

ISBN

1-58729-057-X

OCLC

44960933

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