Plant Families is an easy-to-use, beautifully illustrated guide to the more than seventy core plant families every horticulturist, gardener, or budding botanist

Flowering plant families of the world is the successor to Flowering plants of the world (1978).

Explains the patterns method of plant identification, describing eight key patterns for recognizing more than 45,000 species of plants, and includes an illustra

This volume enables readers to identify California's native and naturalized plants by learning to recognize plant families. The heart of the book contains user-

Introduction. Choice of classification. Choice of families and family list. Family treatments. Dicotyledons and monocotyledons: an example of paraphyly. Observi