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Title: Newcomb's Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb ISBN: 0-316-60442-9 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 13 April, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (20 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect Guide for the Southern Appalachians
Comment: I've noticed from other reviews that this guide is seen to be specific to the northeast. When I first wanted to learn about wildflowers I took a workshop in the western NC mountains and this was the the required text. Every wildflower that we identified was in the book. It seems that the cooler mountain elevations offer the same climate found in New England and Canada. Also, learning by leaf type makes it a lot easier to identify the plant when it's not blooming. I've had a copy of it in my car for the last 10 years and intend on keeping it there.

Rating: 5
Summary: Simple System Eases Wildflower Identification
Comment: The author's system allows even amateurs like me to quickly and accurately identify wildflowers.

It is as simple as answering five questions which point the user to the appropriate page in the book where the flower is described and pictured. The text is great. The first sentence of each description distinguishes that plant from all others in that group.

If you are looking for a wildflower guide, they do not get better than this one.

Rating: 5
Summary: Hands-down best (for the Northeast)
Comment: This is the easiest-to-use and most thorough flower guide I've ever seen. Yes, most illustrations are black-and-white. It's an initial disappointment; however, the quick and sure five-step identification process is worth the lack of color (and the drawings are expertly done). It's much more complete than, say, the Audubon guide. Newcomb has yet to leave me stumped for the identity of any flowering plant. As has been noted, this guide is valid for the Northeast U.S., from Virginia-Kentucky up; and for Canada from Thunder Bay to Newfoundland. I wish the rest of you had a version -- it's indispensible.

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