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sarbar
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yukon222
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MacKinnon & Pojar, but it's difficult to i.d. anything from that book, unless you already know a lot about plants (not categorized by color). The Pojar doesn't give a lot of information about the plant itself, but about native American uses, which isn't that interesting to me. It's redundant: "used for medicinal purposes." Wow, imagine that!
I want to know stuff about the plant.
I end up with CP Lyons' book for flowers, though it doesn't have everything.
I hate it when they give you drawing of a silhouette of a tree. O like you can see the whole tree when you're in a forest. The description and pictures of yew trees aren't like what you see in a forest at all. 
If I knew anything, I'd do a guidebook for regular hacks like me, waddling about in the woods & mountains.
For trees, I'm learning a lot - not only about identification, but about the tree itself, from a DNR publication, but this thread is about flowers.
The Forest Service has a good web page about plants as well, but that's after the hike...
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
Bernardo, NW Hikers' Bureau Chief of Reporting
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sarbar
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Overall I found it to be a good book and history guide as well. Even if it doesn't help you, you will enjoy reading it! 
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mgd
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Movenhike
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Myshkin: U should write a guide..DUDE!
"Make it your Friend" -John Bull
"Make it your Friend" -John Bull
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sarbar
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| Myshkin wrote: | | Also, anyone know of a native PLANT guide to WA? Not a flower, or tree, or shrub, or weed guide, but an every damn plant that grows here guide. I don't care if it's bigger than the Oxford English Dictionary, I just want a definitive guide that covers everything and has pictures of EVERYTHING!
I want detailed descriptions, color photos, and nothing excluded. Does such a guide even exist? |
Myshkin, by definition a definitive guide will be oriented to Foresters, Botanists, and others that need it for work.
Every region of the country has one. I did not graduate from a northwest Forestry school, but every NW Forester had this book on his desk.
http://www.amazon.com/Vascular-Plants-Pacific-Northwest-Part/dp/0295739878
If you want a definitive work you will have to learn how to key out plants. Pretty pictures of flowers do not make a technical book.
For myself I found keying out plants the most boring activity. Somewhere I have my eye loupe and dissecting kit for plants. For sale cheap!!
I just buy lots of books with pretty flower pictures now that I am retired.
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ADAHY
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Trees and shrubs of Washinhton, lots of pictures. (C.P. Lyons) Red, Blue-leaved, Evergreen, and Black Huckleberry shown. Maybe some of those are new ones.
" The price of freedom is eternal vigilance".
" The price of freedom is eternal vigilance".
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