William A. Niering (1924–1999)
Auteur de National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de William A. Niering
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region (1979) — Auteur — 1,536 exemplaires
Natural Area of the Audubon Center of Greenwich 1 exemplaire
Plants and Animals of the Estuary 1 exemplaire
The Life of Marsh 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1924-08-28
- Date de décès
- 1999-08-30
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- Pennsylvania State College (BS|Biology|1943)
Pennsylvania State College (BS|Education|1948)
Pennsylvania State College (MS|Botany|1950)
Rutgers University (PhD|Botany|1952)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 13
- Membres
- 1,819
- Popularité
- #14,141
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 11
Under the detailed entry, you learn the family of the wildflower or weed, description, flowering period, habitat, range, and comments. In spite of having both a small picture and a small description, I still couldn’t differentiate among many of the entries, and was occasionally perplexed. For example, there is an entry for poison ivy, but not poison oak. There is an entry for poison sumac, but it does not appear in the index. Many of the flowers look too much like one another for a novice like me to be able to make a successful identification, and in spite of the large number of items included, there is always a chance the one you want will be missing.
Nevertheless, it is still better than no guide at all, and the size of the guide is convenient for carrying around in your backpack while out and about.… (plus d'informations)