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| The Wildflower Book: East of the Rockies - A Complete Guide to Growing and Identifying Wildflowers (Stokes Backyard Nature Books) | 
| Authors: Donald W. Stokes, Lillian Q.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $13.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1017563
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0316817864
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.96760974
EAN: 9780316817868
ASIN: 0316817864
Publication Date: October 15, 1992
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| Customer Reviews:
 OK May 13, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book is a nice addition to your wild flower library, but definitly not one to take with you for identification purposes.
 The Incomplete Guide June 27, 2000
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Perhaps the publisher has changed the subtitle since its initial publication in 1992. My book is subtitled "The Complete Guide to Growing and Identifying Wildflowers." Unlike their excellent Field Guide to Birds, this book is neither complete nor especially helpful for the identification of eastern wildflowers. There are two excellent chapters on Trilliums and Lady Slippers. Following these is a "gallery" of 87 plants with photographs, Some helpful for identification, some not close enough to be useful, (e.g.Hawkweed). It would be helpful to see the plant's leaves, yet they are frequently omitted from the photograph,(e.g. Yarrow and Queen Anne's Lace which are often confused). The growing tips are quite welcome. Most guides omit these. The fact that the authors have chosen their favorite plants and omitted the rest is this book's severest limitation. I took a drive today and wondered, "What is that gorgeous blue plant dotting the roadside? Could I grow it? What is that pinky splash of daisylike plants? Is that some kind of wild phlox growing by that stream bank?" The Stokes book did not help. I found the answers elsewhere.
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