Coastal Plants from Cape Cod to Cape Canaveral - by Irene H Stuckey & Lisa Lofland Gould (Paperback)

About the Book

Coastal Plants from Cape Cod to Cape Canaveral

Book Synopsis

This beautifully illustrated book introduces readers to 125 frequently encountered wildflowers and other plants that grow in coastal habitats from Massachusetts to central Florida. Drawn from the authors' many years of studying, photographing, and teaching others about plants and their habitats, this handy guide will appeal to everyone from the budding naturalist out to enjoy a day at the beach to the professional scientist seeking accurate, current information about coastal plants.

Organized by plant family, the guide provides the scientific and common names for each species, notes about its range and habitat, and a detailed botanical description that includes information about its growth habits and life history, flowers and fruits, human uses, and importance to wildlife. An exceptional color photograph accompanies each entry. Other features include a section on planning field trips to coastal areas, a glossary, and a list of selected natural areas to visit.


--Detailed species descriptions cover growth habits and life history, flowers and fruits, human uses, and importance to wildlife.
--Other features include a section on planning field trips to coastal areas, a glossary, and a list of selected natural areas to visit.

From the Back Cover

A handy guide to wildflowers, grasses, trees, and other plants of the Atlantic coast

This beautifully illustrated book introduces readers to 125 frequently encountered wildflowers and other plants that grow in coastal habitats from Massachusetts to central Florida. Concise and readable, it will appeal to everyone from the budding naturalist out to enjoy a day at the beach to the professional scientist seeking accurate, current information about coastal plants.
-- Each entry includes the plant's scientific and common names, notes about its range and habitat, and a color photograph.
-- Detailed species descriptions cover growth habits and life history, flowers and fruits, human uses, and importance to wildlife.
-- Other features include a section on planning field trips to coastal areas, a glossary, and a list of selected natural areas to visit.

Irene H. Stuckey and Lisa Lofland Gould are well known for their popular field trips, lectures, writings, and photographs devoted to wild plants and plant ecology. Stuckey is professor emerita of plant physiology at the University of Rhode Island's Agricultural Experiment Station, where her recent research focused on salt marshes. Gould is a research associate at the University of Rhode Island, executive director of the Rhode Island Natural History Survey, and a founder of the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society.

Review Quotes

A strength of this [field guide] is its beautiful photographs, which will aid considerably efforts to identify unfamiliar species. Another useful feature is the inclusion of some woody plants as well as grasses and related species with inconspicuous flowers in addition to the wildflowers typically treated in field guides. ("Choice")

Beginners and experienced naturalists alike will appreciate this handy resource. ("Publishers Weekly")

This book looks at coastal plants from an ecological perspective, rather than simply describing them. ("Audubon Naturalist News")

Very readable, and as such, a fine book for naturalist and field biologists to help one get a better overview of these interesting plants. ("Northeastern Naturalist")