Overview

North Carolina's varied natural Landscapes; For seventy years, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina has been a must-read volume for anyone interested in wildflowers, native plants, ecology, or conservation in the state. This handsome revised edition features new line drawings and color photographs, an appendix that updates the botanical nomenclature, an introduction that focuses on B. W. Wells and his passion for the state's landscape, and an afterword that discusses the continuing relevance of Wells's ideas. One of the first scientists to write and lecture about ecology, Wells introduced North Carolinians to the extraordinary tapestry of """"natural gardens,"""" or plant communities, within the state's borders back in 1932. His purpose was to help readers understand a plant within its community - a pioneering concept at the time - and to promote conservation. Moving from the Atlantic coast westward, Wells identifies eleven major natural gardens: the sand dune community, salt marsh, freshwater marsh, swamp forest, aquatic vegetation, evergreen shrub bog (or pocosin), grass-sedge bog (or savanna), sandhill, old-field community, upland forest, and high mountain spruce-fir forest. He devotes the first part of his book to a general account of the vegetation and habitats of each community and then identifies and describes the wildflowers found there.

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Author:   Lawrence S. Earley ,  Dorothy S. Wilbur-Brooks ,  James W. Hardin ,  Lawrence S Earley
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint:   The University of North Carolina Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9780807849934

ISBN 10:   0807849936
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 November 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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""It is seldom that scientific exactness and charm of description go hand in hand, but Professor Wells has combined these happily. (""Asheville Citizen"")"" A real contribution to botanical literature. (""Nature"") ""If you want to appreciate the plants of North Carolina, you need to become acquainted with B.W. Wells' ""Natural Gardens""."" -- ""The Carrboro Citizen""

It is seldom that scientific exactness and charm of description go hand in hand, but Professor Wells has combined these happily. ( Asheville Citizen )

Author Information

The late B. W. Wells (1884-1978) was professor and chair of the Department of Botany at North Carolina State College in Raleigh from 1919 to 1949. He was a pioneer in the field of ecology and an ardent conservationist.

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