Flora of North America: North of Mexico: Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in Part): Cyperaceae, Vol. 23

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This volume number 26 in a series of 30 volumes focuses on eleven families (following Cronquist) including orchids, lilies, irises, trilliums, hymenocallises, alliums, hostas, tulips, erythroniums, agaves, and yuccas of North America, including the continental US (plus Florida Keys and Aleutian Islands), Canada, Greenland, and St. Pierre and Miquelon (but not Mexico). Intended both as a means of identifying plants within the region and as a systematic conspectus of the North American flora, the present volume contains treatments of 11 families, 177 genera, and 908 speciess. Includes accepted names, synonyms, citations, dichotomous identification keys, descriptions, chromosome numbers, phonological information, summaries of habitats and geographic ranges, and other biological observations, as well as economic uses, weed status, conservation status, and b&w line drawings.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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The first complete treatment of the sedges of North America in more than half a century, this volume tackles the notoriously difficult to identify Cyperaceae with illustrations of all species in the group, emphasizing its great ecological importance. With extensive information on the more than 460 species of Carex, this third volume out of five covering the monocots of North America also includes 96 species of Cyperus, 68 species of Rhynchospora, 66 species of Eleocharis, and the monotypic, North American endemic Cymophyllus. The treatments--written and reviewed by experts--all contain identification keys, summaries of habitats and geographic ranges, distribution maps, pertinent synonymies, descriptions, chromosome numbers, and phenological information. Over 100 illustrations and 945 individual species distribution maps provide ecologists, applied biologists, and other readers with an authoritative account of the Cyperaceae.


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The first complete treatment of the sedges of North America in more than half a century, this volume tackles the notoriously difficult to identify Cyperaceae with illustrations of all species in the group, emphasizing its great ecological importance. With extensive information on the more than 460 species of Carex, this third volume out of five covering the monocots of North America also includes 96 species of Cyperus, 68 species of Rhynchospora, 66 species of Eleocharis, and the monotypic, North American endemic Cymophyllus. The treatments--written and reviewed by experts--all contain identification keys, summaries of habitats and geographic ranges, distribution maps, pertinent synonymies, descriptions, chromosome numbers, and phenological information. Over 100 illustrations and 945 individual species distribution maps provide ecologists, applied biologists, and other readers with an authoritative account of the Cyperaceae.


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