Alpine Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains

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Alpine Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains
Joseph F. Duft , and Robert K. Moseley
Manufacturer: Mountain Pr
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ASIN: 0878422382

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A botanical travelling companion

A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: Northern Arizona and New Mexico to British Columbia (Peterson Field Guides(R))

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain and Southwest Forests (Peterson Field Guides(R))

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A Field Guide to Western Birds: A Completely New Guide to Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides(R))

Rocky Mountain Flower Finder: A Guide to Wildflowers Found Below Tree Line in the Rocky Mountains (Nature Study Guides)

ASIN: 0395936136

Book Description

This guide describes 590 species, with detailed information on flowering season, related species, range, and habitat. More than 100 plant drawings supplement these descriptions, and more than 200 color photographs show flowers as they appear in the field.

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Unusable .......2007-06-03

I ordered this book in preparation for my own trip to Colorado & Wyoming because I love my Peterson's Guide for Wildflowers for the Eastern US. This was a horrible disappointment. The flowers are organized by botanical families and species, instead of the usual organization by color and appearance. The key in the back is supposed to be organized by pairs of questions, but the numbering system is confusing beyond use and whoever put it together apparently doesn't know how to indent. I hope to prevent someone else from wasting their money on this book.

A botanical travelling companion.......2007-03-18

The photography is excellent. The line drawings are even more detailed. The descriptions are very useful. The interesting facts are often fascinating. I expect to field test this guide in July when I visit Alaska and British Columbia this summer. That will be the real test.

Alpine Plants of North America: An Encyclopedia of Mountain Flowers from the Rockies to Alaska

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Alpine Plants of North America: An Encyclopedia of Mountain Flowers from the Rockies to Alaska
Graham Nicholls
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0881925489

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North America is replete with beautiful aplines, and this guide is equally useful to the traveler or the gardener for its identification, propagation, and cultivation information.

Central Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: Including Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

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Central Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: Including Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
H. Wayne Phillips
Manufacturer: Falcon
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 156044729X

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Field guide features over 260 wildflowers found in the heart of the Rockies. Includes vibrant color photos and descriptions.

Southern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: Including Rocky Mountain National Park

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The best wildflower guide I've seen!

Southern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: Including Rocky Mountain National Park
Leigh Robertson
Manufacturer: Falcon
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1560446242

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The alpine and forest terrain of the Southern Rockies region, from southern Wyoming to northern New Mexico, including Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, is a popular destination for wildflower viewing. High-quality color photographs and descriptions written for non-botanists make this an easy-to-use field guide.

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The best wildflower guide I've seen!.......1999-06-16

This is a great guide-the color photos are sharp and clear, the writing is to-the-point and very descriptive and helpful. There is also a section that defines terminology, which is useful to those of us who don't already know everything there is to know about wildflowers but are simply interested in knowing what kind of flower we saw! This book makes identification of a flower easy and certain, instead of wondering which of two (or more) it might be, as I've often found with other guides.

Alpine Flower Finder: The Key to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers Found Above Timberline

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Alpine Flower Finder: The Key to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers Found Above Timberline
Janet L. Wingate , and Loraine Yeatts
Manufacturer: Johnson Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1555662897

Rocky Mountain Flower Finder: A Guide to Wildflowers Found Below Tree Line in the Rocky Mountains (Nature Study Guides)

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Botanist's Little Helper
great for identifying unknown wildflowers during your hike
Excellent flower book

Rocky Mountain Flower Finder: A Guide to Wildflowers Found Below Tree Line in the Rocky Mountains (Nature Study Guides)
Janet L. Wingate
Manufacturer: Nature Study Guild Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0912550201

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Botanist's Little Helper.......2007-03-18

This is a pocket guide for the enthusiast. Some prior knowledge of the terms used would be useful but it does what it says on the cover. I wish that I had found it before my last two trips to the Rocky Mountains but I will be taking it to Alaska this summer and hope that it helps there too.

great for identifying unknown wildflowers during your hike.......2004-04-06

Of all the wildflower books I've seen, this one does the best job at helping you identify your unknown flower. This book uses a decision tree that guides you to the flower by answering questions about the flower's characteristics. e.g. if flower has regular shape go to p. 12, if irregular go to p. 15. Next, if flower has basal leaves, go to p. 20, etc. The book has an explanation and drawings of the terms used for identification. It has line drawings and written descriptions of the flowers. It is small and easily fits in your pocket for a hike.

Excellent flower book.......1999-10-30

My family has always been very nature oriented, which may explain why I have become the owner of several of the "finders" books. Since moving to Colorado, I have watched for flower books and been disappointed in two I purchased. This book is exactly what I was looking for. At a picnic in the mountain woods, a guest brought a strange stalk in from a hike. It was covered with little pumpkin-shaped pods. Finding Pine Drops in this wonderful pocket-sized book sold it to me on the spot. When I went back to the same location the next year, I looked for the plant but didn't find it. Now I know I should not have been looking for a green plant, but one without chlorophyll. Aren't plants fascinating!

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Rocky Mountain Wildflowers
Ronald J. Taylor
Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 0898868823

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* Includes 80 of the best-loved wildflowers and eight pages of new photos

* Compact and easy to use with spiral binding

* Over 27,000 copies of previous editions sold

Expansive and stunning, the Rocky Mountains stretch from New Mexico to the Canadian border and are home to myriad varieties of beautiful wildflowers. The 80 most common are identified in this handy, pack-perfect book, which is organized by the wildflower's color, shape, and alphabetically by common name. Hikers will love how fun and easy it is to identify the wildflowers of the Rockies with this handy-dandy book.

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Very Helpful, Compact Guidebook - Worth the Higher Cost

A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains (Natural History Guides)
Carl Schreier
Manufacturer: Homestead Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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Plants of the Rocky Mountains

ASIN: 0943972132

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Very Helpful, Compact Guidebook - Worth the Higher Cost.......2003-08-23

Over a period of six days we hiked 41 miles on Teton trails across open stretches in Jackson Hole and through dark forests and over high mountain passes. Everywhere we saw wildflowers - not the same wildflowers, but a changing mix reflecting differences in microclimate, especially as we climbed above the tree line.

Fortunately, my wife was well-prepared and carried a copy of A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains, an excellent guidebook with full-color photos of 300 species of wildflowers scattered throughout the Rocky Mountains of North America. Only rarely did we encounter flowers that posed identification problems. (Useful hint: stopping to examine a particular wildflower is a perfect excuse for an unscheduled, but desperately needed rest break, especially at the higher elevations.)

Many guidebooks group the color photos together; the descriptive text is elsewhere and the reader is continually paging back and forth. The arrangement in Carl Schreier's field guide is especially useful for the hiker: the text and photo are on the same page making it possible to look at the wildflower, find the photo, and even read the text while continuing to move along the trail.

Ink drawings of each plant accompany the color photos to make identification easier. The relatively short overview (about 15 pages) highlights key anatomical features that help differentiate individual families and species of wildflowers. The detailed glossary of technical terms is quite helpful.

Schreier's guidebook (second edition, 2002) is widely available on the internet. Like many field guides, it is fairly expensive; used copies (1996 edition) can also be purchased.

In previous years we used guidebooks authored by Richard J. Shaw (Wildflowers of Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks - ISBN 0-937512-05-2, and Plants of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks - ISBN 0-937512-02-8. They contain substantially fewer photos, but are less expensive.

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Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains
George W. Scotter , and Halle Flygare
Manufacturer: Whitecap Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1552858480

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A field guide to the Rockies' exquisite wildflowers.

The Rocky Mountains are natural botanical gardens of enormous diversity and interest. Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains is a user-friendly field guide that features wildflowers from one end of the mountain chain to the other-from northern British Columbia to New Mexico.

Each detailed description of the 350 species of plants has a full-color photograph for easy identification. Plants are grouped into six sections, according to flower color: white; yellow and cream; green; pink; red, orange, and brown; and purple and blue. Included are all the most common species likely to be encountered along the roadsides and hiking trails in the Rockies. Also featured are some rare and shy beauties found in more remote areas.

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This fully illustrated guide lets couples explore dozens of beautiful places to get married without spending hours on the phone or driving from place to place. The San Francisco Bay Area offers spectacular locations for weddings and receptions, from wineries and gardens to mansions and hotels. This book covers the best of them, both large and small, extravagant and intimate, featuring full-color photographs and detailed descriptions of each of 100 gorgeous spots from Sonoma County to San Jose. Complete with information on prices, guest capacity, catering, and amenities, Where to Get Married: San Francisco Bay Area is a must-have guide for everyone planning a Bay Area wedding. Now it's possible to visit scores of spectacular venues at a glance!

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Excellent pictures, very helpful, but WRONG phone numbers!.......1999-06-30

My fiancee and I have purchased and used many different books that have places to get married in the bay area. The thing that this book had over all the others is that a picture is worth a 1000 words. You can look at the picture, and instantly determine if it is the right decor for your wedding. This book provides a great description of the place in flowery grandiose language, but lacks on the details needed to choose the site. That would be fine, because you can always call the provided phone number to get that info, right? Not in this case. Of the ten places I decided to call this morning, only one phone number was correct! So, now I have to hunt for the phone numbers, which will be difficult for the places like the Rose Garden in Golden Gate Park, do I call the City's Parks and Recreation?

Nothing like pictures..........1999-06-02

The best thing about this book is that it has actual photos of the locations. It's much easier to make a judgment based on this than just words or a hand drawing, as in some cases. The descriptions were pretty accurate as well.

Serves as a guide and also an excellent pictorialtravelogue.......1999-01-18

This is an outstanding pictorial guide and an iIn addition it also a wonderfultravelogue ofthe bay area highlighted by mportant source of information for weddingsand a wonderful travelogue.

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