Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of the Southwest by Robert A. Vines 1976, HC, VG

Description: Thank you for looking at our listing. A purchase is supporting Friends of Spanish Peaks Library District! These books are all donated from different sources. This book is in good condition, no visible flaws other than usage wear, see photos for details. If you find several items, message me and I’ll be happy to combine shipping. This book represents an effort to describe and illustrate the native and naturalized woody plants of the southwestern United States. Native plants are regarded as those which are indigenous to an area and which grow there without cul-tivation. Naturalized plants are those which, after being introduced into an alien region, have escaped cultivation and have continued to reproduce themselves. The term "woody plants" is herein taken to include trees, shrubs, and woody vines, and also certain low and partially woody plants. The term "the Southwest," here used in a somewhat restricted and modified sense, includes Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Although this book is primarily intended to cover only these states, the extensive ranges of the majority of the species treated will make it quite useful in adjacent areas of surrounding states as well. The dates of earliest cultivation, unless otherwise indicated, refer to the United States. In the vast area included in the five states taken to be the province of the book, a great variety of plant habitats is represented, ranging from the subtropical lower Gulf Coast through various temperate environments to the montane areas of the West. The many species are grouped into 102 chapters, each chapter representing a different plant family. Some chapters, such as those dealing with the rose, legume, and composite families, are quite large, while certain others contain only one or a few species. Some of the problems encountered in the preparation of the book may be of interest to the reader. In order to gain a firsthand knowledge of the plants in the field, the author has traveled more than 250,000 miles by automobile. Areas inaccessible by automobile were reached by foot and on horseback. Collecting plants in the dry regions of the Southwest is not always an easy matter, for much of the area is desert-like and mountainous. Owing to the failure of some plants to produce flowers and fruit in especially dry years, collecting trips to certain areas had to be deferred for as long as several years, until rainfall restored the depleted ground moisture. A large amount of literature, some of it quite rare and difficult to locate, was borrowed from libraries and botanical institutions; but, because of their incompleteness or vagueness, some of the older publications were nearly useless. Plants known only from such fragmentary descriptive matter have been completely redescribed from field collections.

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Location: Walsenburg, Colorado

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