Native Plants of Southeast Alaska - Softcover

Hall, Judy Kathryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965872602 ISBN 13: 9780965872607

Publisher: Windy Ridge Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

A comprehensive field guide to native ferns, trees, shrubs, grasses, sedges, rushes and herbs found in Southeast and South-central Alaska. Includes:Detailed line drawings for all speciesPlant descriptions for more than 830 speciesKeys to family, genus and speciesRange and abundance informationFlowering timesFormer and alternate taxonomyFood and medicinal uses as well as other information essential for plant enthusiasts, botanists, hikers and naturalists

About this title

About the Author

Judy Hall (Jacobson) began to study botany while a student at Cornell University where in 1975, she received a degree in Environmental Conservation. She participated in studies of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest and the effects of clear-cutting on wildlife habitat in Southeast Alaska for Oregon State University. Currently, she is a naturalist with Alaska Nature Tours in Haines and has written Guide to Plants along the Manuka Nature Trail on the Big Island of Hawai’i, and several mushroom books. She enjoys exploring Alaska and Hawaii with her husband on land aboard the M/V Arcturus and S/V A’u.

Edition details

• Publisher: Windy Ridge Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965872602
• ISBN 13: 9780965872607
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Kelsey Claudia, Jacobson Terry, Britton NL, Brown A, Pearse C. Kenneth
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 313