Easily Identify the Weeds You Find, Even in the Winter!
Enjoy learning to identify weeds in the wintertime with this guide from celebrated author Dorcas Miller. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of weeds in no time. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a hike.
Features:
- Provides a key to identifying non-woody plants in late fall and winter by the dried structures that remain after frost, such as pods, dried flower heads, seed capsules, and burrs
- Includes common native and naturalized herbs and native ferns
- Covers the upper Midwest and eastern United States north of South Carolina, as well as eastern Canada
- Includes illustrations with line drawings
This book was written by Dorcas S. Miller of Chelsea, Maine, author of several guidebooks in the series. Two-color Ilustrations are by Ellen Amendolara.
Table of Contents:
Species List
- Enchanter's Nightshade
- Agrimony
- Avens
- Burdock
- Cocklebur
- Viper's Bugloss
- Beggar Tick
- Spanish Needles
- Jimson Weed
- Wild Cucumber
- Teasel
- Thistle
- Wild Onion, Garlic, Leek
- Wild Parsnip
- Sweet Cicely
- Queen Anne's Lace
- Shepherd's Purse
- Yellow Rocket
- Garlic Mustard
- Peppergrass
- Tick Trefoil
- Lupine
- Wild Pea
- Milkweed
- Swallow-wort
- Common Speedwell
- Dogbane
- Common Mullein
- Turtlehead
- Butter-and-eggs
- Wild Indigo
- Eyebright
- Beardtongue
- Figwort
- False Foxglove
- Wild Yam
- Japanese Knotweed
- Dock
- Blue-eyed Grass
- Wood Lily
- Yucca
- Blue Flag
- Lady's Slipper
- Helleborine
- Rattlesnake Plantain
- St. Johnswort
- Pinweed
- Blindweed
- Pinesap
- Bouncing Bet
- Deptford Pink
- Fireweed
- Seedbox
- Evening Primrose
- Whorled Loosestrife
- Catchfly
- Evening Lychnis
- Cinquefoil
- Blue Curls
- Hedge Nettle
- Motherwort
- Pennyroyal
- Musk Mallow
- Monarda
- Mountain Mint
- Ground Cherry
- Shinleaf
- Meadowsweet
- Columbine
- Indian Pipe
- Dodder
- Virgin's Bower
- Thimbleweed
- Ostrich Fern
- Sensitive Fern
- Sunflower
- Boneset, Thoroughwort, Joe-Pie Weed
- Self-heal
- Water Horehound
- Purple Loosestrife
- Vervain
- Lavender
- Bellflower
- Chicory
- Plantain
- Moth Mullein
- Indian Tobacco
- Pearly Everlasting
- Sweet Everlasting
- Tansy
- Yarrow
- Coneflower, Black-eyed Susan, or Sneezeweed
- Grass-leaved Goldenrod
- Oxeye Daisy
- Elecampane
- Aster
- Goldenrod
- Bush Clover
- Rabbit-foot Clover
- Velvet Leaf
- Cat-tail
- Knapweed
- Hop Clover
- Ragweed
- Pigweed
Nature Study Guild Publishers
Pub Date: January 1, 1989
0.22" H x 3.88" L x 5.86" W
64 pages
paperback