Florida Wild Flowers and Roadside Plants | C. Ritchie Bell

336 pp., 5.5 x 8.5, 550 color illus., 513 drawings, 503 range maps, 1 table, 1 map, index

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7283-0
Published: May 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-9608-6880-3
Published: February 2007

Buy this Book

To purchase online via an independent bookstore, visit Bookshop.org

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.

About the Authors

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).
For more information about C. Ritchie Bell, visit the Author Page.

Bryan J. Taylor is former chief park naturalist of the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation.

For more information about Bryan J. Taylor, visit the Author Page.

Quick Links

Permissions Information

Subsidiary Rights Information

Media Inquiries

Related Subjects

Biological & Botanical Reference

Nature Guides

Related Books

Butterflies of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia

Seashells of North Carolina, Revised and Expanded Edition