Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3556529 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Synopsis
This is an illustrated manual for ready identification of 299 common and economically important weeds in the region south of Virginia, north of Maine and southern Canada, and west of Wisconsin. Based on vegetative rather than floral characteristics, this practical guide gives anyone who works with plants the ability to identify weeds before they flower. This book should facilitate appropriate weed management strategy in any horticultural or agronomic cropping system and should also serve home gardeners and landscape managers, as well as pest management specialists and allergists.

Customer Reviews

An invaluable resource for "weeds" (which are often beautiful plants)
This book is an invaluable guide for amateurs who want to know "what that thing growing over there" is. I just bought some land that is covered with a mysterious, bamboo-like, nearly impassable stand of Mystery Plant. With this book in hand, within minutes I identified it as Japanese Knotweed. The only reason why I didn't give the book (which began as Uva's doctoral dissertation) a perfect "10" is this: the organization lacks convenience. Each plant is shown on two pages; the left is a neat, detailed description of the plant, the right is several photos of it. To find a plant, you must flip through every page (it's arranged by monocot and dicot, but if you don't know into which category the plant falls, you're a little lost).

If you can have only one book about weeds, this is the one.
As a librarian at a botanical reseach library, I am often asked to recommend a good book on this subject. Until now I couldn't. This is it. Long may it stay in print!