Subject: field guide to Florida wildflowers

From: "James E. Taylor" <[email-masked]>
Date: 2 Sep 1996 14:08:00 GMT

I'm looking for a field guide to Florida wildflowers - particular focus on
SW Florida - any suggestions?

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From: [email-masked] (Phil Schappert)
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 14:10:54 GMT

>SW Florida - any suggestions?

The only one that I'm aware of is "Florida Wild Flowers and Roadside
Plants" by C.R. Bell & R.J. Taylor, Laurel Hill Press, Chapel Hill, 1982
(ISBN: 0-9608688-0-I). It's well worth it if you can find it. I got my copy
at Butterfly World in Coconut Creek, BTW.

Phil

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Phil Schappert
Biology, York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
[email-masked]

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From: Stinger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 15:26:44 -0400

The Guide to Florida Wildflowers by Walter Kingsley Taylor, 1992 Tayor
Publishing, Dallas Texas ISBN 0-87833-747-4

is pretty and reasonably well stocked with the common things. Although I
require a more technical text, I find my students in Local Flora (here
in N. Central FL) using this one extensively - you can't get a better
rec than that.

There will also be another very good one from Wendy Zomlefer out in a
year or so.

Richard Wunderlin's Guide the the Vascular Plants of Central Florida
1982 ISBN 0-8130-0748-8 is the standard Flora for the area now that Long
& Lakela is out of print but it has no pictures and can be very
difficult for the non-botanist to use.

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P.O. Box 110530
Gainesville, FL 32611-0530
USA