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Guide to the by Richard P. Wunderlin This is the first comprehensive identification manual of the highly diverse flora of Florida, and it will serve as the definitive guide to Florida’s vascular plants for years to come. With more than 4,000 kinds of native and nonnative ferns and fern allies, nonflowering seed plants, and flowering seed plants that reproduce outside of cultivation, Florida has the third largest plant diversity of any state in the nation. Some of its plant species are found nowhere else in the world; many of these are endangered. Because of the state's mild climate, many nonnative species--including major pest species--readily become naturalized, contributing nearly one-third of the species of known flora. Wunderlin provides a
means to identify these plants through a series of
taxonomic keys to family, genus, and species. He gives
the up-to-date accepted scientific name of each species,
the major nomenclatural synonyms, many common names, the
general habitat preference, and, for plants not native to
Florida, the region of nativity. Long awaited by
biologists, conservationists, gardeners, educators, and
environmental consultants, Wunderlin’s guide
provides for the first time in a single volume a means to
identify the abundant and diverse flora of the Sunshine
State. Richard P. Wunderlin,
professor of biology at the University of South Florida,
is the author of Guide
to the Vascular Plants of Central Florida (UPF,
1992) and Flora
of Florida, Volume I: Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms (UPF, 2000). 1998. 816 pp. 6 X 9. Map, index. ISBN 0-8130-1556-1 Cloth, $39.95
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"Wunderlin's guide brings together his years of work and several previous publications dealing with the flora of the state. . . . an invaluable source to the flora of the southeastern US."--
Choice "I congratulate Wunderlin on completion of this book. His treatise brings us light years from 1982 (as we verge on a twenty-first century) toward an understanding of what we have, and what we had, in the state. He also shows us what we stand to lose to exotic species invasions, urbanization, and similar impacts of modern civilization."- -
Daniel F. Austin, Florida Atlantic University
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