Wildflowers of the Shenendoah Valley and Blue Ridge Mountains

by Oscar W. Gupton and Fred C. Swope

Book Overview

Designed for those with no biological training, this volume is small enough to carry in the field. It uses a colour-coded system for the photographs, and contains 285 species of wildflowers from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813908140
• ISBN13: 9780813908144
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful field guide

I have really learned a lot about our local wildflowers from this book-It has been fun looking for some of the flowers, since the book tells you what season to find them, and which ares they like to grow in.Highly recommend to anyone who loves wildflowers .

Wildflower lover

Excellent guide to the wildflowers in my region of Southwest Virginia. Good pictures and descriptions.

Helps me hone in on plant identification

Nice guide targeted at our area. Each page is on a specific plant - there is a large photograph covering the first 2/3 of the page with a short description below. The photos are excellent - very useful for identification (or at least narrowing in on the id) if the plant happens to be in bloom at the time. The descriptions are quite short - only a few sentences but do tell if the plant is native or introduced, if they're common or not, where they're likely found, the family they're in, and some description of unique aspects of the plant. I've found this to be a very useful book as I walk around our yard which was once an old farmers field and is now grown up with trees and thickets and other plants that were deposited by birds or brought in by the wind. Having the photos made identification easier. Also being focused on just plants of our area takes a lot of guess-work out. I then can use other books or online resources for more details such as benefit to wildlife etc.

An excellent guide to wildflowers in the Blue Ridge

This book is an excellent summary of wildflowers you can expect to find in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah Valley. The full color pictures are beautiful and organized to make identification of flower names easy for the beginner.

An easy to use, well illustrated wildflower guide.

This is a non-technical field guide, designed for people with all skill levels. Wildflowers are organized by blossum color and illustrated with color photographs. A very useful book when searching for that elusive flower name in the Shenandoah Valley or Blue Ridge Mountains. The authors have written a similar book on Trees and Shrubs in the Shenandoah Valley.