Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast : : A Field Guide / / Peter Del Tredici.
In this field guide to the future, esteemed Harvard University botanist Peter Del Tredici unveils the plants that will become even more dominant in urban environments under projected future environmental conditions. These plants are the most important and most common plants in cities. Learning what...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | Second Edition |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (428 p.) :; 965 color photos, 1 b&w halftone, 1 map, 1 chart |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to the second edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Mosses and Ferns
- Horsetails
- Conifers
- Woody Dicots
- Herbaceous Dicots
- Monocots
- Appendix 1. Urban Habitats and Their Preadapted Plants
- Appendix 2. Plants Treated in This Book That Are Included in Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica
- Appendix 3. European Plants Listed by Josselyn as Growing Spontaneously in New England in the Seventeenth Century
- Appendix 4. Species Suitable for a Cosmopolitan Urban Meadow
- Appendix 5. Shade-Tolerance Ratings of the 40 Trees Covered in This Book
- Appendix 6. Key Characteristics of Important Plant Families
- Glossary
- Index