A Botanist's Vocabulary
1300 Terms Explained and Illustrated
Published on 25. May 2016
Book
Hardback
228 pages
978-1-60469-563-2 (ISBN)
Description
For anyone looking for a deeper appreciation of the wonderful world of plants! Gardeners are inherently curious. They make note of a plant label in a botanical garden and then go home to learn more. They pick up fallen blossoms to examine them closer. They spend hours reading plant catalogs. But they are often unable to accurately name or describe their discoveries. A Botanist's Vocabulary gives gardeners and naturalists a better understanding of what they see and a way to categorize and organize the natural world in which they are so intimately involved. Through concise definitions and detailed black and white illustrations, it defines 1300 words commonly used by botanists, naturalists, and gardeners to describe plants.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Workman Publishing
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
726 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 181 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
722 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60469-563-2 (9781604695632)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Susan K. Pell is the science and public programs manager at the United States Botanic Garden, where she gets to show people the awesomeness of plants every day. She was formerly director of science at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where she studied the evolutionary relationships of the cashew family. She holds a PhD in plant biology and teaches courses in genetics, angiosperm morphology, and systematics. Pell lives in Washington, D.C., with her wife and daughter.Bobbi Angell creates richly detailed pen and ink drawings for botanists at the New York Botanical Garden and other institutions. Ror many years, she illustrated The New York Times "Garden Q&A" column. A gardener and printmaker as well as an illustrator, she lives in southern Vermont.