 |
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification |
Customer Rating: 
Sales Rank: 12054
Available from Amazon |
$18.00 |
Product Review
"Botany in a Day presents a simplified way of identifying plants through learning the patterns in over 100 plant families." -- Ecology Action Newsletter. Willits, California. February 2003.
(Review of the fourth edition.)
Product Description
Looking for a faster, easier, and fun way to identify plants? Botany in a Day teaches you the patterns method of plant identification, so that you can discover the wonderful world of plants around you, wherever you go.
Instead of trying to identify plants one-at-a-time, Botany in a Day give you a way to learn them by the hundreds, based on the principle that related plants have similar patterns for indentification, and they often have similar uses.
The one-day tutorial included in the text teaches you seven key patterns to recognize more than 45,000 species of plants worldwide. Master these seven patterns and you will be ready to use the included reference guide--Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families of North America. Here you will find the patterns for indentification and the patterns of uses for the majority of plants across the continent.
Botany in a Day is used as a guide by thousands of individuals, plus herbal schools and universities across North America.
Paperback: 221 pages
Publisher: HOPS Press, LLC; 5 edition January 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1892784157
ISBN-13: 978-1892784155
Product Dimensions:
10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
In the opening chapter, this book presents a wonderful simplified story of the evolution of plants, from a single cell to modern complex flowers. Both children and adults can gain a unique, intuitive understanding of this process from this explanation. My compliments to the author. He describes each plant family with interesting anecdotes and high quality line drawings. It's the first plant book whose lack of photographs didn't matter. Great tips for identifying families and individual plants have helped me enormously. Bravo!
|
