Wildflowers: A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-to-Use Guide [Paperback]

This is a practical beginner's guide to the most common American wildflowers. Emphasis is on those with showy petals and those that the amateur is most likely to see. Special features include:

Where to look for wildflowers
Tips on how to collect and grow them
Simplified range maps

As an added aid to quick and easy identification, the flowers are grouped according to color.

Golden Guides first appeared in 1949 and quickly established themselves as authorities on subjects from Natural History to Science. Relaunched in 2000,Golden Guides from St. Martin's Pressfeature modern, new covers as part of a multi-year, million-dollar program to revise, update, and expand the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.