Pitcher Plants of the Americas - Softcover

McPherson, Stewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939923742 ISBN 13: 9780939923748

Publisher: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US, 1998

Synopsis

Presents a general review of the pitcher plants of the Americas - an overview of the systematics, biology, ecology, biogeography, and conservation of the five genera of American pitcher plants. This work is of use to naturalists, botanists, ecologists, biogeographers, resource managers, and horticulturalists - among others.

About this title

Synopsis:

This book presents the most extensive general review of the pitcher plants of the Americas yet undertaken - it is a substantive overview of the systematics, biology, ecology, biogeography, and conservation of the five genera of American pitcher plants (s.l.), including three genera of true pitcher plants (Darlingtonia, Heliamphora, and Sarracenia) and two genera of carnivorous tank bromeliads (Brocchinia, Catopsis). Here is information about some 45 species, hybrids, and cultivars, consolidated and presented in detail, along with more than 200 spectacular color photographs. This beautiful and informative study of these alluring plants will be appreciated by a wide audience of naturalists, botanists, ecologists, biogeographers, resource managers, and horticulturalists - among others!

About the Author:

Stewart McPherson is a geographer who has studied at the University of Durham in England, the University of Tuebingen in Germany, and Yale University in the United States. An authority on carnivorous plants of the world, Pitcher Plants of the Americas, the product of six years of research and travel, is his first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0939923742
• ISBN 13: 9780939923748
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320