This is an extensive taxonomic study of Florida's vascular plants, methodically cross-referenced, has catalogued information covering the flowering dates of over 1,210 species, representing 128 families, 533 genera and 1,708 common names.

"Walter Taylor's guide will help readers recognize and identify wildflowers in a different way, not principally by their color or family group, but by where they're most likely to be found growing - their natural habitat. This book is the first of its kind for Florida." "Taylor provides detailed descriptions and color photos of each community - pine flatwoods, sandhills, upland pine forest, scrub, temperate hardwood forest, coastal uplands, subtropical...

"The Complete Language of Flowers is a comprehensive and definitive dictionary/reference presenting the history, symbolic meaning, and visual depiction of 1,001 flowers and botanicals from around the world in one volume"--

This book is composed of two sections: the first dealing with native wild flowers; the second, with the exotic or cultivated varieties. The descriptions accompanying the illustrations are concise and explicit for purposes of identification, and useful information on flower arranging and cutting is included.

This guide features stunning color photographs of more than 600 common wildflowers of Florida. Detailed descriptions and full-color photos aid the reader in identifying plants in the field. --

Spine title: Wild flowers. Introduction to wild flowers and plants with twenty easy-to-do science projects.