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The
Natural Gardens of North Carolina, B.W. Wells For
seventy years this classic has been a must-read volume for anyone interested in
wildflowers, native plants, ecology or conservation in North Carolina.
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
afterward that discusses the continuing relevance of Wells's ideas. 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 (pocosin), grass-sedge bog
(savannah), sandhill, old-field community, upland forest, and high mountain
spruce-fir forest. The late B.W. Wells (1884-1978) was professor and chair
of the Department of Botany at North Carolina State College (now NC State
University) in Raleigh from 1919
to 1949. 0-8078-4993-6
The Natural Gardens of NC $21.95
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