
Flowering Plants, Willows to Mustards 2nd ed. Edition
Author(s): Southern Illinois University Press (Author)
- Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr
- Publication Date: 15 Jun. 2006
- Edition: 2nd ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 080930922X
- ISBN-13: 9780809309221
Book Description
This eighth volume in the comprehensive Illustrated Flora of Illinois series is the seventh volume devoted to flowering plants (the eighth volume is devoted to ferns) and the second treating dicotyledons, which include such well-known plants as roses, peas, mustards, mints, nightshades, milkweeds, and asters. The previous volume on dicots, Flowering Plants: Hollies to Loasas, was published in 1978.
In the present volume, Mohlenbrock includes three orders of vascular plants encompassing five families. The orders are Salicales and Tamaricales, of the Salicaceae and Tamaricaceae families, and Capparidales, of the Capparidaceae, Resedaceae, and Brassicaceae families. In all, 44 genera and 117species are treated in this volume, each species illustrated in detail.
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