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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | More than 900 color photographs and descriptive text identify Arizona's unique flora, including wildflowers, cacti, trees, and other plant life.
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Anne Epple | | Paperback: | 536 pages | | Publisher: | FalconGuides | | Publication Date: | March 01, 1997 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1560445637 | | Product Length: | 9.02 inches | | Product Width: | 6.04 inches | | Product Height: | 0.97 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.82 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.02 inches | | Package Width: | 6.04 inches | | Package Height: | 0.97 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.82 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 12 reviews |
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Best book for identifying the desert wildflowers of Arizona May 18, 2005
By Irvin Kanode
Over the years, I've purchased a dozen or more books to identify desert wildflowers photographed during Superstition Wilderness hikes. This is by far the best book that I've found.
- Clear closeup photos that capture the distinctiveness of each flower
- The flower photo are grouped by color and size so if you see a "small blue flower", you can quickly see if it is in this book
- Informative details: Height, Flowers, Stems, Spines, Bloom months, Elevation, Habitat, and Comments
Check out the index to see the depth of the coverage.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Well-Organized, Attractive, Useful Arizona Plant ID Book May 25, 2007
By Only Sometimes Clever
"Karen Joy"
This book has been an amazing help to me in identifying trees, cacti and flowers around the state of Arizona. It is well-organized, with glossy color pictures in the front half of the book, grouped by color in a relatively easy-to-find way, under descriptions such as "Daisylike and Dandionlike White or Whitish Flowers" or "Tiny Pink to Reddish Pink Flowers." Under each photograph is the flower's common name and the page number for the back portion of the book, in which detailed information is found.
In the back section, each plant's description includes: All the known common names; the scientific name and family to which it belongs; the plant's height; detailed, non-scientific description of the flowers and leaves; the bloom season; the elevation at which the plant grows; the habitat in which it is found; and additional, relevant comments, including where the photograph was taken and if the plant is poisonous, or has any traditional medical uses, etc.
My only disappointment is that, surely for brevity's sake, some plants are left out, which, while understandable, can make some identifications questionable. For instance, in trying to ID a high-elevation paintbrush, the book mentions "Over a dozen species of Castilleja in Arizona; the species of this genus are difficult to identify." And only four of those dozen species are in the book. Still, with 853 species pictured and described, Plants of Arizona is much more thorough for the state of Arizona than any other field guide out there.
23 of 27 found the following review helpful:
excellent Resource book especially for collectors of plants. Nov 18, 1999
There is no current book available that discusses the plants of this state. I believe the last comprehensive book was printed in the 70's. This is a good comprehensive guide with many colorful photographs, and lots of good information.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 A Field Guide to the Plants of Arizona Dec 26, 2010
By Randy J. Mercurio
I have to say that I can agree with all of the reviews up until the date of this one. In other words, I can see the negative aspects from "A reader" who gave the book 2 stars and I also see the positive attributes that many reviewers expressed. Overall, this is a useful book with good information but the formating makes it difficult to use in the field. Mainly because the color plate section is separated form each written plant account but the page number is given under each photo. Sometimes the photos only show the flower and not enough of the entire plant making it difficult to quickly identify plants visually; however, this is a common problem with many field guides. The only other complaint I have is that there aren't any distribution maps but instead a brief habitat description is provided. If you live in the Phoenix area or south-central and southwestern part of AZ which is Sonoran Desert then you may find Dr. Richard Spellenberg's "Sonoran Desert Wildflowers" from 2003 useful.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Only a little lesss than ideal, Aug 01, 2008
By Paul D. Kinslow
A slightly less than perfect reference for the slightly more than serious amateur or the out of region professional.
Somewhat, perhaps necessarily, overlarge for convenient use in the field.
Rather beyond the Sunday stroll wildflower fancier.
Like any so-called field guide in which all the images are collected in a separate section, actual field identification using PLANTS OF ARIZONA is troublesome. This is a criticism of the book's utility, not of its' excellent content.
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