Field Guide to the Peat Mosses of Boreal North America

by Cyrus B. McQueen

A practical guide to field identification of common North American peat mosses. For amateurs and professionals alike, the book contains excellent color photos of 30 major species and field keys to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087451522X
• ISBN13: 9780874515220
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Definitely User friendly

I just spent all day with this book, using it in the field and in the lab with my plant ecology students (undergraduates). I know that Sphagnum identification is difficult but the students found the random access key to 27 species very easy to use . It is much easier to use the key in the lab with a dissecting microscope and some dissecting tools than in the field. However the photographs are useful and the species descriptions are very complete. The book starts off with excellent chapters on the natural history, anatomy and ecology of Sphagnum.