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Botany in a day APG : the patterns method of plant identification : an herbal field guide to plant families of North America  Cover Image Book Book

Botany in a day APG : the patterns method of plant identification : an herbal field guide to plant families of North America

Elpel, Thomas J. (author.).

Summary: Explains the patterns method of plant identification, describing eight key patterns for recognizing more than 45,000 species of plants, and includes an illustrated reference guide to plant families.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781892784353
  • ISBN: 1892784351
  • Physical Description: print
    ii, 235 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
  • Edition: Edition 6.2 : minor edits and corrections.
  • Publisher: Pony, Montana : HOPS Press, LLC, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Edition statement from title page verso.
"6th edition."
Includes "Quick Guide to Flower Terms"--Inside front cover, and "Quick Guide to Leaf Terms"--inside back cover
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note: Part I : Botany in a day: the patterns method of plant identification -- Botany in a day tutorial: how to proceed -- Plant names and classification -- Evolution of plants : A puzzle without all the pieces -- Life begins -- The land plants -- Learning plants by families -- Problems in taxonomic paradise -- How to use the keys -- Profile your flower : Key to regular dicot flowers with numerous petals -- Key to irregular dicot flowers -- Key to regular dicot flowers with 0, 3 or 6 petals -- Key to regular dicot flowers with 4 petals -- Key to regular dicot flowers with 5 united petals -- Key to regular dicot flowers with 5 separate petals -- Key to dicot trees and shrubs by their fruits -- Key to monocot flowers -- Part II : Reference guide: an herbal field guide to plant families -- Clubmoss clade -- Fern clade -- Naked seed clade -- Flowering plants clade : Water lily clade -- Magnolia clade -- Hornwort clade -- Eudicots clade -- Monocots clade -- Medicinal properties of plants -- Indexes : Plants by genus -- Plants by common name -- Plant families and subfamilies by botanical names -- Plant families and subfamilies by common names.
Subject: Medicinal plants -- United States -- Identification
Wild flowers -- United States -- Identification
Botany -- United States
Botany -- Pictorial works
Genre: Photobooks.

Available copies

  • 1 of 2 copies available at University College of the North Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
The Pas Campus Library QK 110 .E46 2013 (Text) 58500001122530 Stacks Volume hold Available -
Thompson Campus Library QK 110 .E46 2018 (Text) 58500001123983 Stacks Volume hold ILL -


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