Guide to Flowering Plant Families

We are pleased to announce the publication of a major illustrated reference, Guide to Flowering Plant Families, by one of our Research Associates, Wendy B. Zomlefer. This 430 page book, available in both hard and soft cover, includes:

• Three introductory chapters: User's guide; Summary of cladistics (especially in reference to paraphyletic groups, i.e., monocots vs. "dicots"); How to examine, dissect and sketch live material.
• 130 families with modern referenced commentaries, charts, and professionally produced illustrations.
• 165 figures: 158 plates of intricate botanical illustrations plus 7 cladograms.
• 23 tables: 22 detailed charts comparing related families/subfamilies, plus a general table comparing all families in the book.
• Illustrated glossary: 551 terms accompanied by 302 drawings.