Publications

Cranbrook Institute of Science Bulletin

Contains a biographical sketch, a report on the Farwell collection and an annotated list of Farwell's new taxa. 101 pages, illustrated with photographs. Cranbrook Institute of Science Bulletin 34.

Price: U.S. $5.50; Canada 11.50; all other countries $19.50

The University of Michigan Press

Field Manual of Michigan Flora is the most up-to-date guide available for all seed plants growing wild in Michigan. Significantly expanding and updating the three-volume Michigan Flora, the book incorporates the discoveries of numerous additional species, recent systematic research, and a vast trove of new information on the shifting distributions of Michigan species. It presents concise identification keys, information about habitats, and completely updated distribution maps for all the seed plants, native or naturalized, that ...

The University of Michigan Press

Herbarium collection manager Richard  Rabeler's major revision and expansion of H. A. Gleason's Plants of Michigan is a one-volume field guide to the Great Lakes region's flowering plants, trees and gymnosperms. 398 pages, waterproof cover, quick guide to families on the last page.

ISBN 0-9663251-0-9

Price: U.S. $26.95 available from the Universtiy of Michigan Press

The University of Michigan Herbarium

Describes the taxonomy and morphology of the liverworts and hornworts found in the 42 counties south of the state's Tension Zone, which marks the transition to a "north woods" climate, soil and plant cover. 233 pages, includes a map, keys, black-and-white drawings and photographs, glossary.

ISBN 0-9620733-1-8

Price: U.S. $19.00; Canada 25.00; all other countries 33.00

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University of Michigan Herbarium

The three-part Michigan Flora is the only complete guide to the conifers and flowering plants of the state. The first part includes full keys for the identication of Gymnosperms (conifers) and the great group of Monocots: over 700 different grasses, sedges, pondweeds, lilies, orchids and their kin. 488 pages, detailed introduction, 732 distribution maps, 345 line drawings, 46 photographs in full color.

ISBN 87737-032-X

Price: U.S. $19.00; Canada 31.00; all other countries $46.00

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The three-part Michigan Flora is the only complete guide to the conifers and flowering plants of the state. The second part covers half of the Dicots: approximately 1000 species in the willow, birch, smartweed, pink, buttercup, mustard, rose, legume, geranium, holly, violet, carrot, dogwood and 70 other families in which the flowers normally lack petals or have petals separate from one another. 727 pages, 971 distribution maps, 351 line drawings, 51 photographs in full color.

ISBN 87737-037-0

Price: U.S. $19.00; Canada 31.00; all other countries $46.00

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The three-part Michigan Flora is the only complete guide to the conifers and flowering plants of the state. The third part covers the remaining families of Dicots, including nearly 800 species in the heath, gentian, milkweed, borage, mint, nightshade, snapdragon, bladderwort, honeysuckle, gourd, bellflower and related families having the petals united to one another. 622 pages, 771 distribution maps, 266 line drawings, 53 photographs in full color.

ISBN 87737-040-0

Price: U.S. $19.00; Canada $31.00; all other countries 46.00

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University of Michigan Press

The number-one book for tree identification in Michigan and the Great Lakes

If you buy one tree guide this year, this should be it. Now in its tenth decade of publication, Michigan Trees is the must-have reference book for anyone who wants to learn about the trees of this unique North American region. Written and illustrated in a style that appeals to botanists, ecologists, and amateur naturalists alike, Michigan Trees gives readers everything they need to know for identifying the trees of the Great Lakes.

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University of Michigan Herbarium

This comprehensive and richly illustrated account of the mosses found throughout the Great Lakes Basin and St. Lawrence River Valley is tailored for use in much of eastern North America. Detailed descriptions, keys, and a glossary are provided. 592 pages, frontispiece, hard cover.

ISBN 0-9620733-6-3.

Price: U.S. $45.00

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The author provides a comprehensive overview of the classes, and orders of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. For each group, a detailed and richly illustrated account of its morphology is presented. Introductory chapters address taxonomic questions and phylogenetic speculations. 379 pages (frontispiece, 149 illustrations, glossary). ISBN 0-9620733-4-2 Price: U.S. $25.00; Canada $35.00; all other countries 46.00

The University of Michigan Press

The foremost handbook for mushroom hunters, beginners and experts alike.

The Mushroom Hunter's Field Guide is the guide that tells when, where, and how to find delicious edible mushrooms and how to avoid poisonous ones. Beginners as well as experts will be able to identify mushrooms in a matter of minutes. All of the mushrooms included are illustrated in beautiful color, adding visual enjoyment to the textual materials. The descriptions are tinged with wit and wisdom, making the use of this guide an enjoyable and rewarding experience.

Published by Cranbrook Institute of Science

Dunes, forests, wetlands, plains, and rocky shores—these habitats and more comprise the mosaic that is the western Great Lakes region. This wide variety of habitats offers exceptional opportunities to see numerous interesting wildflowers. In an approach unique amongst wildflower books, Wildflowers of the Western Great Lakes Region presents more than 270 wildflower species to be found in the states surrounding the western Great Lakes as well as southern Ontario arranged according to the habitats in which they most commonly occur. Within the eleven...