Florida Wild Flowers and Roadside Plants

by C. Ritchie Bell and Bryan J. Taylor

Published by The University of North Carolina Press

Publication date: May 01, 2022

ISBN 9781469672830 | 336 Pages, 5.50 × 8.50 in, 550 color illus., 513 drawings, 503 range maps, 1 table, 1 map, index

336 Pages, 5.50 × 8.50 in, 550 color illus., 513 drawings, 503 range maps, 1 table, 1 map, index

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500 species, from Pensacola to the Keys

Florida boasts an extremely diverse flora, ranging from tropical species in the south to Appalachian Mountain remnants in the panhandle. Florida Wild Flowers and Roadside Plants is a helpful guide to identifying 500 species of Florida plant life, including rare as well as common wild flowers and characteristic trees, shrubs, vines, and ferns. Each description includes both common and scientific names, a range map, symbols to show the season of bloom, and a useful summary code of nine key plant, leaf, and flower characters, to aid in identification. With rich color photographs and brief, nontechnical notes to accompany each species, this handbook is a valuable reference for tourists, residents, students, and anyone interested in plants in all seasons of the year, from Pensacola to the Keys.

C. Ritchie Bell, founding director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden and professor emeritus of botany at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is author or coauthor of nine books, including Wild Flowers of North Carolina and the Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (both from the University of North Carolina Press). Bryan J. Taylor is former chief park naturalist of the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation.

“Armchair travelers, students of architecture and those who revel in more than four centuries of history can sit back and enjoy this sumptuous volume." — Chattanooga Times

“A beautiful book, with 500 full-color photographs and a scientific, yet understandable, way of describing exactly what [is] what.” — Fort Myers News Press

“An outstanding advance toward filling the gaps on the flora of Florida, and commendable effort by the authors. . . . Florida Wild Flowers and Roadside Plants is a beautiful cocktail table addition and valuable resource in the library. It will doubtless proceed through edition after edition, each more comprehensive than the last.” — Palmetto

“Florida Wild Flowers and Roadside Plants . . . should be welcomed by professional and amateur botanists as well as people who enjoy nature and wish to know only the common names of plants. . . . This book is a good addition by competent authors to the books on Florida’s flowers.” — Fairchild Tropical Garden Bulletin

“Florida Wild Flowers and Roadside Plants should be welcomed by professional and amateur botanists as well as people who enjoy nature and wish to know only the common names of plants. . . . This book is a good addition by competent authors to the books on Florida’s flowers.”—Fairchild Tropical Garden Bulletin

“An elegantly definitive book.”—Orlando Sentinel

“A beautiful book, with 500 full-color photographs and a scientific, yet understandable, way of describing exactly what [is] what.”—Fort Myers News Press