Mountain Plants of the Pacific Northwest: A Field Guide to Washington, Western British Columbia, and Southeastern Alaska

by Ronald J. Taylor

Book Overview

With non-technical descriptions and more than 500 photos and drawings, this full-color field guide invites readers to explore the Pacific Northwest's diverse array of mountain wildflowers, ferns,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878423141
• ISBN13: 9780878423149
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

good, but only covers common species. no keys to genus/sp

Good photographs, but these alone are not adequate to allow identification of many of the species described. Since most distinguishing characteristics of related species are described in terms of "less than" or "more than" the species photographed, and since you often can't see those characters in the photograph, it is often difficult to use this field guide to distinguish between related species. The key is only to the family level