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Title: Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families, 4th Ed. by Thomas J. Elpel ISBN: 1-892784-07-6 Publisher: HOPS Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tremendous help to this novice
Comment: When I started a new hobby of photographing wildflowers, I had no clue on the importance of learning plant families in order to identify them. If I couldn't tell from the picture in a field guide, I was up a creek. "Botany in a Day" was the first book I found that organized the families in a simple, clear way that I could understand and this system has become my main guide for grouping and identification. The herbal information is interesting, but not relevant to my project. I'm very grateful for the help I've received from this book
Rating: 2
Summary: Good intention, disappointing result
Comment: This book could have been a gem for people interested in botany and healing plants, but it does not manage to fill this void. The text is not read by a professional botanist (I assume) and incorrect or dubious facts are common. Furthermore, the text is filled with typos and misspellings that could easily have been caught in a simple spell-checking program. The figures are from older literature and are not well reproduced. The aim with this book, to explain botany in a day, is highly recommendable, but I cannot recommend this book in its present shape and quality-level. A completely corrected, re-formatted, and revised edition of this book is needed. For people interested in the plant families of North America I instead recommend the high-quality work of Zomlefer: Guide to Flowering Plant Families.
Rating: 3
Summary: A comprehensive guide to plant families
Comment: Though definitely *not* a field guide. This book is intended to be an introduction to plant families, and it does a good job at that. All the vascular plant families present in North America are briefly described and identification tips noted. Very few actual species are thoroughly described, though the "medicinal" properties of many species, mostly collected from other sources, are recounted here. This book would be better titled "Herbalism in a Day" as it's long on lists of medicinal uses and short on detailed botanical information. I'm pleased I purchased it, but it would be a inadequate substitute for an actual field guide or flora.
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Title: Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary by James G. Harris, Melinda Woolf Harris ISBN: 0964022168 Publisher: Spring Lake Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: How to Identify Flowering Plant Families: A Practical Guide for Horticulturist and Plant Lover by John Philip Baumgardt ISBN: 0917304217 Publisher: Timber Pr Pub. Date: October, 1982 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Participating in Nature: Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills by Thomas J. Elpel ISBN: 1892784122 Publisher: HOPS Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: How to Identify Plants by L.W. Durrell, Harold David Harrington ISBN: 0804001499 Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Guide to Flowering Plant Families by Wendy B. Zomlefer ISBN: 0807844705 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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