Roadside Wildflowers of the Northwest

by Ted Underhill

Overview

Exquisite color photos are accompanied by brief description of habitat, flowering season and special characteristics. To facilitate identification, the flowers are grouped by color, and broad bands of color across each page make it possible to flip to the appropriate section in an instant. Exquisite color photos are accompanied by brief description of habitat, flowering season and special characteristics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780888391087
Publisher:	Hancock House Publishers
Publication date:	06/01/1982
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

J.E. Underhill is a self-taught naturalist with many years of experience and special interests in the world of plant life. In 1958 he joined the British Columbia Provincial Parks Branch as their first permanent naturalists, and his work in this field has kept him in touch with a wide variety of natural history subjects. Ted Underhill is best known for his first book, Wild Berries of the Pacific Northwest.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	4
Flowering Dogwood	5
Easter Lily	5
Trillium	5
Dwarf Dogwood	6
Queen Cup	6
Wild Strawberry	6
Tall White Rein Orchid	7
Miners' Lettuce	7
Mouse-eared Chickweed	8
Fringe Cup	8
Snowbrush	9
Labrador Tea	9
Red-Osier Dogwood	9
Saskatoon Berry	10
Mock Orange	10
Thimbleberry	10
Ox-Eye Daisy	11
Pearly Everlasting	11
Milfoil	12
Birch-Leaved Spiraea	12
False Solomon's Seal	12
Cow Parsnip	13
Goatsbeard	13
Alumroot	13
Western Mountain Ash	14
Red Elder	14
Blue Elder	14
Death Camas	15
Ocean Spray	15
Yellow Arum/Skunk Cabbage	16
Avalanche Lily	16
Violet	17
Monkey Flower	17
Yellow Flag	18
Black Twinberry	18
Common Mullein	18
Butter-and-Eggs	19
Puccoon	19
Blazing Star	19
St. John's Wort	20
Broom	20
Yellow Dryad	21
Buttercup	21
Stonecrop	22
Oregon Grape	22
Sulphur Flower	22
Antelope Bush	23
Rabbit Brush	23
Balsam Root	24
Arnica	24
Brown-Eyed Susan	25
Oyster Plant	25
Goldenrod	26
Prickly Pear Cactus	26
Columbia Tiger Lily	26
Orange Honeysuckle	27
Western Columbine	27
Indian Paintbrush	27
Scarlet Gilia	28
Vetch	28
Perennial Pea	28
Salmonberry	29
Wild Rose	29
Pink Rhododendron	29
Sticky Geranium	30
Fireweed	30
Bearberry	30
Salal	31
Swamp Laurel	31
Twin-Flower	31
Large Wintergreen	32
Prince's Pine	32
Bitter Root (Spaetlum)	32
Pink Easter Lily	33
Sea Blush	33
Wild Onion	33
Wild Currants & Gooseberries	34
Hardhack	34
Hedge Nettle	35
Pink Monkeyflower	35
Bleeding Heart	36
Showy Milkweed	36
Shooting Star	37
Thistle	37
Pink Pussy-Toes	38
Aster (Michaelmas Daisy)	38
Knapweed	39
Wild Bergamot	39
Colt's Foot	40
Penstemon	40
Mariposa Lily	41
Purple Oyster Plant	41
Self Heal	42
Western Long-Spurred Violet	42
Lupine	43
Showy Jacob's Ladder	43
Blue-Eyed Mary	44
Chicory	44
Monkshood	44
Camas	45
Wild Larkspur	45
Poison Ivy	46
Slender Bog Orchid	46
Chocolate Lily	46
Sumac	47
INDEX TO SCIENTIFIC AND COMMON NAMES	48