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Wasatch Wildflowers
Nothing's more beautiful than a meadow full of wildflowers swaying in the mountain breeze, and with Wasatch Wildflowers you'll be able to appreciate that sight more than ever before. Experienced hiker and wildflower enthusiast Steve Hegji has scaled mountain heights to bring you this priceless collection of over 200 different flowers indigenous to the Wasatch Region, like Prince's Plume, Glacier Lily, and Wandering Daisy. With gorgeous full-color photos, you'll soon be able to find and identify each specimen as you learn fun facts about its name and history. Wasatch Wildflowers is an indispensible guide to recognizing the simple beauties all around you?sometimes even in your own backyard.
207 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2010
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February 17, 2022
Works well for identifying plants on the trail. I like the color tabs. Handy for my seed and garden selection. Additionally interesting would be explanations on how the flowers go to seed, more specific locations, and how prevalent they are - a few notes addressed rarity or widespread varieties, which is a very helpful note.
September 2, 2023
Love how the flowers are organized by color!
April 7, 2010
Wasatch Wildflowers is simply a delightful book. The photography is wonderful and will give anyone a thrill as they become acquainted with the wildflowers located along the Wasatch front. Every effort has been made to make this a very useful and enjoyable book. The printing is on thick paper with heavy cover pages that will make this a useful book to bring along on a hike and it seems to be rugged enough to last.
The flower's pictures are organized by color with color tabs on the pages to make it easy to locate the right section. Many of the pictures include both a close up of the flower as well as inset pictures of the plant or leaves. The focus is on wonderful half-page pictures that will help anyone identify the flowers that they might find. There is information included with most flowers describing the flower, fruit, leaves, habitat, range where the flower can be located and additional information such as edibility, meaning of Latin or Greek names, other species etc.
The book has a 33 page index that includes both the various common names, but also the scientific names for each flower. Although the flowers are organized according to color, they are also grouped in each color according to the family classification, so you can find additional flowers of the same family next to each other. However, that does lead to flowers of the same family being in multiple sections of the book. For example the Snapdragon family has flowers in four sections (red, yellow, blue, & violet). Reference books and web pages are also provided for additional information.
I believe that anyone trying to get acquainted with the flowers in northern Utah will find this book very useful. It supplies very complete and useful information in a handy and visually stunning format.
The flower's pictures are organized by color with color tabs on the pages to make it easy to locate the right section. Many of the pictures include both a close up of the flower as well as inset pictures of the plant or leaves. The focus is on wonderful half-page pictures that will help anyone identify the flowers that they might find. There is information included with most flowers describing the flower, fruit, leaves, habitat, range where the flower can be located and additional information such as edibility, meaning of Latin or Greek names, other species etc.
The book has a 33 page index that includes both the various common names, but also the scientific names for each flower. Although the flowers are organized according to color, they are also grouped in each color according to the family classification, so you can find additional flowers of the same family next to each other. However, that does lead to flowers of the same family being in multiple sections of the book. For example the Snapdragon family has flowers in four sections (red, yellow, blue, & violet). Reference books and web pages are also provided for additional information.
I believe that anyone trying to get acquainted with the flowers in northern Utah will find this book very useful. It supplies very complete and useful information in a handy and visually stunning format.
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