A Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-Central North America

by Peterson, Roger Tory

• ISBN13: 9780395911723
• ISBN10: 0395911729
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-15
• Publisher: Houghton Miff

Summary

Grouped by color and by plant characteristics, 1,293 species in 84 families are described and illustrated. Included here are all the flowers you're most likely to encounter in the eastern and north-central U.S., westward to the Dakotas and southward to North Carolina and Arkansas, as well as the adjacent parts of Canada.

Table of Contents

Map of Area Covered by This Book	vi	(1)
Introduction	vii	(6)
Glossary	xiii	(2)
The Families of Flowers	xv
White or Whitish Flowers	1	(98)
Yellow Flowers	99	(106)
Orange Flowers	205	(6)
Pink to Red Flowers	211	(102)
Note: This includes purple or purplish, that difficult to define color bracket ranging between the lavender-red category and the violet-blue category (next group). Some flowers are repeated, but if there is doubt about the color and the flower is not found in one section, look for it in the other.
Violet to Blue Flowers	313	(52)
See note above.
Green and Brown Flowers	365	(30)
Green Flowers	366	(22)
Brown Flowers	388	(7)
Index	395