Winter Weed Finder
A Guide to Dry Plants in Winter
Published on 1. January 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-912550-17-6 (ISBN)
Description
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
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 99 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
54 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-912550-17-6 (9780912550176)
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10/2024
2nd Edition
Nature Study Guild Publishers
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Persons
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.
Content
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