Flora of North America, Volume 1: Introduction
Foreword,
Theodore M. Barkley
Introduction: History of the
Flora of North America Project,
Nancy R. Morin and Richard W.
Spellenberg
PART I: Physical Setting
1.
Climate and Physiography,
Luc Brouillet and R. David
Whetstone
2.
Soils,
Donald Steila
PART II: Vegetation and Climates of
the Past
3.
History of the Vegetation:
Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and Tertiary,
Alan Graham
4.
Paleoclimates, Paleovegetation,
and Paleofloras during the Late Quaternary,
Paul A. Delcourt and Hazel R.
Delcourt
PART III: Contemporary Vegetation
and Phytogeography
5.
Vegetation,
Michael Barbour and Norman
Christensen
6.
Phytogeography,
Robert F. Thorne
PART IV: Humankind and the Flora
7.
Taxonomic Botany and Floristics,
James Reveal and James Pringle
8.
Weeds,
Ronald Stuckey and Theodore
Barkley
9.
Ethnobotany and Economic Botany,
Charles B. Heiser Jr.
10.
Plant Conservation,
George Yatskievych and Richard
Spellenberg
PART V: Classifications and
Classification Systems
11.
Concepts of Species and Genera,
G. Ledyard Stebbins
12.
Pteridophytes,
Warren H. Wagner Jr. and Alan R.
Smith
13.
Gymnosperms,
James Eckenwalder
14.
A Commentary on the General
System of Classification of Flowering Plants,
Arthur Cronquist
15.
Flowering Plant Families: An
Overview, James Reveal
Literature Cited
Index
Flora of North America, Volume 22: Magnoliophyta: Alismatidae, Arecidae, Commelinidae (in part), and Zingiberidae
Description
Flora of North America, Volume 22, is the first of five volumes
covering monocots in North America north of Mexico. The volume
comprises many groups of aquatic plants and the North American
relatives of groups that have their richest number of species in
the New World tropics. Included among the treatments are the
rush family (Juncaceae), which include important indicator
species in wetland habitats, the cat-tails (Typhaceae),
spiderworts (Commelinaceae,), aroids (Araceae), and pondweeds (Potamogetonaceae).
Thirty families are included in this volume, representing a
diverse range of plant forms - from marine Zosteraceae
(eel-grasses) to stately Arecaeae (palms) and the naturalized
exotic Zingiberaceae (gingers). Heliconiaceae (heliconias) and
Musaceae (bananas).
Flora of North America, Volume 4: Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae, part 1
Description
Flora of North America, Volume 4,
will be the second volume of nineteen on dicotyledons to be
published in the Flora of North
America series. It treats 892 species in 124 genera and
ten families (Phytolaccaceae,
Achatocarpaceae,
Nyctaginaceae,
Aizoaceae,
Cactaceae,
Chenopodiaceae,
Amaranthaceae,
Portulacaceae,
Basellaceae, and
Molluginaceae). Each of
the included species is illustrated with a line drawing that, in
combination with the key and descriptions, will facilitate
identification of this economically important group of plants.
Features
- More than 650 species classified in 117 genera and 10
families of the order
Caryophyllales
- Features:
- DT Extensively reviewed entries, which include
identification keys, descriptions, line drawings, and
ecological characteristics
- DT Distribution maps for the native and established
species
- DT A list of the synonyms currently in use for the
accepted names
