New England Wild Flower Society's Flora Novae Angliae: A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Higher Vascular Plants of New England


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This comprehensive manual offers accurate, up-to-date, and clear information for identifying New England's remarkable array of tracheophytes (vascular plants, excluding mosses). With fully researched entries on some 3,500 native and nonnative species, the book is the first in decades to provide a complete and correct botanical reference for the region's noncultivated plants. The volume includes many new species not documented in New England before, while also excluding many species that have erroneously appeared in earlier manuals.Focusing on the taxonomy and distribution of New England plants, the manual is largely dedicated to identification keys and to species entries that provide scientific name, origin, regional conservation ranking, common name, synonyms, distribution, ecology, and other miscellaneous items of interest. Nearly one-third of the entries are accompanied by helpful black-and-white line illustrations.
New England Wild Flower Society's Flora Novae Angliae: A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Higher Vascular Plants of New England Review
Flora Novae Angliae - A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Higher Vascular Plants of New England by Arthur Haines, 2011, is a welcome addition to any ones botanical library. This publication covers the states of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine.This manual provides dichotomous keys for each genus, lists some common synonyms, and identifies the states in which the plant has been observed. This is followed by a brief description of the community type in which it grows.
Arthur Haines also presents a listing of the various species with which a plant may hybridize. This is especially useful when identifying the ferns, willows, sedges and oak trees. He describes the main characters which are used to identify the hybrids.
Most pages have additional line drawings along the sides, which highlight a feature which is useful to separate out similar species. It would have been nice if more of these could have been included for comparison to other species in the same genus.
A welcome feature is the updated nomenclature, which is in line with many botanical databases found on the internet. This is a worthwhile addition to any naturalist library.
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