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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Trees and Shrubs

Trees of the Pacific Northwest (Backpacker Field Guides)
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For wilderness travelers and backyard naturalists alike, the sheer number and variety of North American trees can make identification a daunting task. For those who have struggled to distinguish the Pacific Yew from the Redwood or the Quaking Aspen from... (read more)
 
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Flora of the Western US

Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
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Featuring more than 1,200 stunning color photographs, this comprehensive field guide describes and illustrates 1,220 species commonly encountered in the Pacific Northwest, both native and nonnative, including perennials, annuals, and shrubs.... (read more)
 
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Ethnobotany and Useful Plants

Western Medicinal Plants & Herbs
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This guide offers the most comprehensive treatment of medicinal plants of western North America ever published. It includes five hundred color photographs, information on where the plants are found and their medicinal uses, and an index to medical topics... (read more)
 
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Grasses and Weeds

Weeds of the West
by Tom Whitson

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Learning to identify unwanted plants around the home, farm or ranch will be much easier with this book published by the Western Society of Weed Science and co-sponsored by the Cooperative Extension of the United States. Weeds of the West will help you... (read more)
 
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Mushrooms

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms (National Audubon Society Field Guide Series)
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With more than 700 mushrooms detailed with color photographs and descriptive text, this is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to the mushrooms of North America. The 762 full-color identification photographs show the mushrooms as they appear... (read more)
 
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Flora of California

Roadside Plants of Southern California (Outdoor and Nature)
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Between Earth and Sky Signed
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World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In Between Earth and Sky, a rich... (read more)
 
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The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America
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Flora of North America

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