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Weeds of the West
by Tom Whitson
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Learning to identify unwanted plants around the home, farm or ranch will be much easier with this book published by the Western Society of Weed Science and co-sponsored by the Cooperative Extension of the United States. Weeds of the West will help you... ( read more)
Your price: $35.00
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston
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Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained — the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have... ( read more)
List Price $16.00
Your price: $6.98
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Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities
by Amy Stewart
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A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling... ( read more)
Your price: $18.95
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Peterson Field Guide To Pacific Wildflowers (76 Edition)
by Theodore F. (ed.) Niehaus
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Here are descriptions and illustrations of 1,492 species from 77 families - virtually all of the wildflowers found from British Columbia to Baja California, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Grouped by color, each species description... ( read more)
List Price $19.00
Your price: $10.00
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Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West
by Gregory L. Tilford
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Full-color photographs face detailed descriptions of 250 plant species in the western United States and Canada, covering field identification, habitat and range, edibility, medicinal uses, and more.... ( read more)
Your price: $21.00
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Field Guide to the Sedges of the Pacific Northwest
by Barbara L. Wilson and Richard Brainerd and Danna Lytjen and Bruce Newhouse and Nick Otting
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Field Guide to the Sedges of the Pacific Northwest is an illustrated guide to all 163 species, subspecies, and varieties in the genus Carex that occur in Oregon and Washington. Most of these species are found throughout the Pacific Northwest and... ( read more)
List Price $42.50
Your price: $35.00
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Invasive Plants: A Guide to Identification and the Impacts and Control of Common North American Species
by Sylvan R Kaufman
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The first-ever field guide to invasive plants in North America. Features full-color photos and descriptions of some 175 alien species--both terrestrial and aquatic--that are in some cases changing the landscape to an almost unimaginable degree... ( read more)
List Price $39.95
Your price: $16.98
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Flower Hunters
by John Gribbin
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The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, and helped establish the new science of... ( read more)
List Price $27.95
Your price: $18.50
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Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid
by Tim Ecott
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From Papantla in Mexico — "the city that perfumed the world" — to the Indian Ocean islands, Vanilla traces the story of the vanilla plant and its secretive trade. From the golden cups of Aztec emperors to the ice-cream dishes of U.S. presidents,... ( read more)
List Price $14.00
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Familiar Trees of North America: Western Region (National Audubon Society Pocket Guides)
by Audubon
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These easy-to-use guides are divided into three parts: introductory essays; color plates and species accounts; and appendices - all in a convenient size!... ( read more)
List Price $9.95
Your price: $5.50
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