By B. W. Wells
ISBN-10: 0807826677
ISBN-13: 9780807826676
ISBN-10: 0807849936
ISBN-13: 9780807849934
One of the 1st scientists to jot down and lecture approximately ecology, Wells brought North Carolinians to the intense tapestry of "natural gardens," or plant groups, in the state's borders again in 1932. His objective used to be to assist readers comprehend a plant inside its community--a pioneering idea on the time--and to advertise conservation. relocating from the Atlantic coast westward, Wells identifies 11 significant average gardens: the sand dune group, salt marsh, freshwater marsh, swamp woodland, aquatic plants, evergreen shrub bathroom (or pocosin), grass-sedge lavatory (or savanna), sandhill, old-field group, upland woodland, and excessive mountain spruce-fir wooded area. He devotes the 1st a part of his e-book to a common account of the plants and habitats of every group after which identifies and describes the wildflowers came upon there.
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