This book is designed to enable students of botany to gain some knowledge of the relationships between families of plants. The text of each of the 100 plant fam

Flowering plant families of the world is the successor to Flowering plants of the world (1978).

Understanding the flowering plants of any region begins with the recognition of families. This remarkable volume, created to serve students, professionals, and

Explains the patterns method of plant identification, describing eight key patterns for recognizing more than 45,000 species of plants, and includes an illustra

"The expert text describes each family's features, diversity of genera and species, distribution, habitat, classification, botany, natural history, and economic