Vascular Flora of the Southeastern United States

276 pp., 6.125 x 9.25

Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4941-5
Published: February 2001

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This study of the vascular plant taxa in this region includes keys, descriptions, habitats, distributional data, and pertinent synonymy to every vascular species without cultivation in the southeastern United States. The Asteraceae is the largest family of flowering plants in the temperate zone and numbers over fifteen thousand species. Although one of the easiest families to recognize, many genera have been poorly defined heretofore.

Geographical Range

Vascular Flora of the Southeastern United States covers the forested region of the southeastern United States west to the prairie and north to the southernmost terminal moraines. This region includes Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Notation of presence in adjacent states of Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey will be made.

About the Author

The late Arthur Cronquist (1919-1992) was Senior Scientist at the New York Botanical Garden. His works include Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (with Henry A. Gleason), Introductory Botany, and Basic Botany.
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Reviews

"Cronquist has very ably treated the Asteraceae in his characteristic expert manner. . . . A volume which is a must for all engaged in, or interested in, floristics of the Southeast."--Plant Science Bulletin, Botanical Society of America

"This volume, and by extension the whole set, should be in every college library, at least in the region and adjacent states."--Choice