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This is by far the best and most comprehensive manual and illustrated guide to native and naturalized vascular plants—ferns, conifers, and flowering plants—growing in aquatic and wetland habitats in northeastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and south to Virginia and Missouri. Published in two volumes, this long-awaited work completely revises and greatly expands Norman Fassett’s 1940 classic A Manual of Aquatic Plants, yet retains the features that made Fassett’s book so useful. Features include: * coverage of 1139 plant species, 1186 taxa, 295 genera, 109 families * more than 600 pages of illustrations, and illustrations for more than 90% of the taxa * keys for each species include references to corresponding illustrations * habitat information, geographical ranges, and synonomy * a chapter on nuisance aquatic weeds * glossaries of botanical and habitat terms * a full index for each volume Wetland ecologists, botanists, resource managers, public naturalists, and environmentalists concerned with the preservation of wetland areas, which are increasingly threatened, will welcome this clear, workable, and comprehensive guide.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.0 based on 1 review)

only moderately useful by Dennis Kalma (Willsboro, NY United States)

2 Stars
April 26, 2008
Because the volumes use keys and employ technical botanical terms, they are more useful for people with some background in plant identification. There are illustrations (of variable quality and utility), but these are not books that you can thumb through to identify specimens. All of the species included are wetland species and it is a nice idea to have them in a single reference. My main complaints with the volumes are: 1) they do not contain all the wetland species you are likely find in a wetland and do not indicate where they are incomplete. You could easily key out a specimen and come up with an incorrect identification because you have a species they omitted; 2) there are always some non-wetland species in a wetland and these are not covered in the volumes. Again you can come up with an incorrect identification. For these reasons the volumes make false identifications likely. And, if you can recognize when they are leading you astray, you've already passed through the level where they could be useful.

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