Providing a taxonomic treatment of some 700 species of the Ohio flora,
this book presents descriptions of and commentary on the individual species
and covers the families and genera to which they belong. For those families and
genera represented by more than one species, Tom S. Cooperrider includes keys
for identification by which the related species can be distinguished from one
another. He also describes the species' important varieties, forms, and hybrids
that occur in Ohio.
Both thorough and accurate, this volume will serve as a valuable source of information about a particular group of Ohio plants and as an aid in identifying an unknown specimen. Original illustrations are provided for nearly all native and naturalized species, along with county dot-distribution maps, which Cooperrider constructed by using records from herbarium specimens (some 80,000 in number) that he examined.
Tom S. Cooperrider is
professor emeritus of biological sciences at Kent State University and a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Explorers Club,
and the Ohio Academy of Science. The 1994 recipient of the Ohio Biological
Survey’s Osborn Award, he is the author of Vascular Plants of Clinton,
Jackson, and Jones Counties, Iowa and Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of
Iowa and the editor of Endangered and Threatened Plants of Ohio.
| 1995 656 pp. illus. | |
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