Field Guide to Common Texas Grasses
Title | Field Guide to Common Texas Grasses PDF eBook |
Author | Stephan L. Hatch |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2016-02-25 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1623493250 |
Covering 172 species of the most significant common grasses growing in Texas, this complete update of the now-classic Common Texas Grasses: An Illustrated Guide contains range maps and color images of the inflorescences and spikelets of each species along with the detailed, black-and-white illustrations found in the original volume. Identifying descriptive text, keys to genera and species, a checklist, and a glossary round out this standard field reference for botanists, students, and naturalists.
Guide to Texas Grasses
Title | Guide to Texas Grasses PDF eBook |
Author | Robert B. Shaw |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 1098 |
Release | 2012-06-21 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1603441867 |
In this new, complete Guide to Texas Grasses, Robert B. Shaw and the team at the Texas A&M University Institute of Renewable Natural Resources provide an indispensable reference to the world’s most economically important plant family. After discussing the impact of grass on our everyday lives as food, biofuels, land restoration, erosion control, and water become ever more urgent issues worldwide—the book then provides:a description of the structure of the grass plant;details of the classification and distribution of Texas grasses;brief species accounts;distributional maps;color photographs;plus black-and-white drawings of 670 grass species—native, introduced, and ornamental. Scientific keys help identify the grasses to group, genera, and species, and an alphabetized checklist includes information on: origin (native or introduced); longevity (annual or perennial);growth season (cool or warm season); endangered status;and occurrence (by ecological zone). A glossary, literature citations, and a quick index to genera round out the book. Guide to Texas Grasses is a comprehensive treatment of Texas grasses meant to assist students, botanists, ecologists, agronomists, range scientists, naturalists, researchers, extension agents, and others who work with or are interested in these important plants.
Field Guide to the Broad-leaved Herbaceous Plants of South Texas
Title | Field Guide to the Broad-leaved Herbaceous Plants of South Texas PDF eBook |
Author | J. H. Everitt |
Publisher | Texas Tech University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780896724006 |
Profiles 185 broad-leaved herbaceous plants in Texas, focusing on southern Texas, that are useful to landowners, providing color photos, comments, and details on their stems, leaves, and other anatomical parts, inflorescence, and fruit. Includes a bibliography and a glossary.
Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska
Title | Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska PDF eBook |
Author | Iralee Barnard |
Publisher | University Press of Kansas |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2014-03-24 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0700619453 |
Once covered by wild grasses, America's heartland is by nature a grassland, populated with plants whose ecological importance, practical value, and subtle beauty we are only now beginning to comprehend. Of the 3,000 species of wild plants in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, in the heart of the heartland, only two of every ten are grasses, and in some prairies just one or two of these can account for 80 to 90 percent of the ground cover. It is these major wild grasses, the native and the naturalized, that this field guide covers, as well as some not found in such large numbers but nonetheless widespread and easily noticed. From the more familiar (like big bluestem, little bluestem, Indiangrass, switchgrass, buffalograss, sideoats grama, and blue grama) to the less recognized (such as ticklegrass, rice cutgrass, and prairie wedgegrass), from the weedy to the desirable, each of the seventy species profiled in these pages appears in full-color, its fundamental characteristics clearly identifiable by novice and expert alike: flowers and seed heads, leaf details with size comparisons, and whole mature plant pictures. Though of ever broadening interest--to ranchers, gardeners, naturalists, and restorers of prairies and native landscapes--grasses are notoriously tricky to identify. A number of features of this guide make the task considerably easier. A handy system of "finding lists," allows a user to navigate quickly to identification of an unknown grass. Descriptions, written in clear and easily understood terms, focus on the primary characteristics of each species and are accompanied by distribution maps. And an illustrated glossary, leaf comparison section, and table of grass flowering dates provide additional information and opportunities for recognizing and appreciating various species. Putting these plants into ecological and cultural context, botanist and grass specialist Iralee Barnard gives readers, whether curious amateur, passionate naturalist, or professional, a new way of understanding the grasses of America's prairies and plains, including their plant structures and adaptations, their natural history, ecological associations, and cultural importance.
Common Texas Grasses
Title | Common Texas Grasses PDF eBook |
Author | Frank W. Gould |
Publisher | Texas A & M University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 1978-01-01 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 9780890960585 |
Identifies one hundred and fifty species of grasses commonly found in Texas, with drawings and botanical descriptions of each grass
Grasses of the Texas Hill Country
Title | Grasses of the Texas Hill Country PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Loflin |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2006-04-04 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1585444677 |
This photographic guide to grasses gives all who have been frustrated trying to identify these difficult plants an easy-to-use, visually precise, and information-packed field guide to seventy-seven native and introduced species that grow in the Texas Hill Country and beyond. With a blade of grass in hand, open this book and find: Handy thumb guides to seedhead type, the most visible distinguishing characteristic to begin identification. Color photographs of stands of grasses and detailed close-ups. Concise information about economic uses, habitat, range, and flowering season. Quick-reference icons for native status, toxicity, growing season, and grazing response
Brush and Weeds of Texas Rangelands
Title | Brush and Weeds of Texas Rangelands PDF eBook |
Author | Charles R. Hart |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9780972104944 |
More than one hundred million acres of Texas land are either native rangeland or permanent pasture, but most of this land is infested with unwanted weed and brush species that compete with desirable forage plants. With this book at their fingertips, landowners and rangeland managers now can easily identify the brush and weeds posing greatest concern in their area. This easy-to-use field guide includes plant descriptions, identifying characteristics, geographic distribution, and habitat descriptions, along with range maps and multiple color photos for each species.