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Botanica North America: An Illustrated Guide to Native Plants: Their Botany, Their History, and the Way They Have Shaped Our World
Marjorie Harris
Botanica North America is a comprehensive guide covers the native plants of North America and explores each climatic zone with engaging and informative descriptions and more than 250 photographs. Do you know that the smell of sassafras blowing off-shore convinced Columbus that he was near land? Or that the American sycamore, which has the largest tree trunk in the eastern forest, can live for 500 to 600 years? These tidbits are just two of thousands you'll find in Botanica North America, an encyclopedia of the wonderfully diverse North American native plants by noted naturalist Marjorie Harris. This comprehensive volume is packed with essential information--a nature lover's exploration of North American plants climate to climate, providing an overview of the plant's physical attributes, natural history, common uses, and ethnobotany. From the desert cactus to the forest Elm tree, this book includes lush photography of the plants in their habitat, and the charming text culls entertaining anecdotes from a variety of gardening experts and amateurs, from naturalist Rachel Carlson to famed conservationist John Muir. It is a complete reference guide that no garden enthusiast or naturalist should be without.
About the author:
Marjorie Harris is Canada's foremost gardening writer. She is the author of many books, including Favorite Garden Tips, Seasons of My Garden, The Canadian Garden Collection, and In the Garden: Thoughts on ChangingSeasons. She is a gardening columnist for the Globe and Mail and editor in chief of Gardening Life magazine. She lives in Toronto.
Hardcover: 665 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.63 x 11.22 x 8.84
Publisher: HarperResource; 1st ed edition (November 4, 2003)
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