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| Author: Lawrence Newcomb
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 8103
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 490
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0316604429
Dewey Decimal Number: 582.130974
EAN: 9780316604420
ASIN: 0316604429
Publication Date: April 13, 1989
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great guide for beginners and advanced May 23, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Overall a great book if you are interested in wildflower identification. I wish there were more pictures. Once you learn the coding, it is easy to narrow what you are looking for. I tried identifying a a flower that I already new by using the coding and was able to go directly to it. Using it to identify others you don't know takes a little practice, but it cuts your search time way down.
 A Staple for Every Fan of Plants March 8, 2007
This book is the first to go into a field bag when headed outside. It is an invaluable resource. A great deal of drawings (mostly B/W) that aid in the identification of Northeastern wildflowers. Note: requires a moderate amount of practice and/or knowledge of plants and flowers to be truly effective.
Regional but excellent July 17, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Definitely a regional book. If you travel in N. Georgia up to New England, this is a must-have guide. The black and white line drawings do aid in identifying plants having structure and shape as the defining characteristic because light and shade of color do not come into play as they might in photos. As in birding, the preference for either photos or drawings is an individual one and, until Newcomb's landed in my library, I used photo guides for wildflowers but preferred drawn guides (like Peterson's) for birds. This is the book that changed my mind on that point.
Having said that, this is not a beginner's book. I think I would have had little use for Newcomb's 6 or 7 years ago when I started out with wildflowers. This is the only book whose key system did not leave me reaching for a photo guide out of frustration; the key works very well with this book, and helped make me a more educated plant photographer. Also, since using it, my tolerance for keys and ability to use them have both gone up markedly. I do still carry photo guides with me but, in the region covered, the photo guide is a back-up to Newcomb's and is often used for the additional text as opposed to the pictures.
Newcomb's Wildflower Guide July 4, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Two types of flower-identification books are available, those that use pure pattern recognition and those that require you to look at the flower. Pattern recognition books usually have pretty pictures of flowers arranged by color and then require you to search many pages to find one that looks like your flower. Newcomb's takes an alternative approach; it requires that you actually look at the flower. The key system is simple to use; for example, how many petals does it have, do the leaves alternate or are they on opposite sides of the stem, is it an herb, bush, or vine, etc. Only after narrowing down the possibilities extensively do you arrive at the pattern recognition stage and have only a few possibilities from which to choose. I have methodically found the names of several different flowers that I could not find even after exhaustive searches of other books. The book is not filled with pretty pictures, it is filled with information and excellent, simple line art.
Great Guide June 28, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If all the drawings in this book were in color, then this book would be hard to beat. I love this guide, but sometimes I have to reference a book with color pictures to be certain of an identification.
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