Description
Visitors to the area will find this volume a practical identification guide, offering descriptions of seventy-five representative species of northern Chihuahuan Desert plants. Each illustrated profile includes the plant's common and Latin name and a brief description, as well as its role in human history, its relationship to the surrounding flora and fauna, medicinal uses, nutritional value, habitat, toxicity, and other interesting facts.
About the Author
Carolyn Dodson is retired from the faculty of the libraries of the University of New Mexico and has taught wildflower identification classes in the UNM Continuing Education Division for twenty-five years. She coauthored Central New Mexico Gardens (with the Native Plant Society) and Mountain Wildflowers of the Southern Rockies (with William W. Dunmire).
Robert DeWitt Ivey is an eminent New Mexico botanist and author of the acclaimed Flowering Plants of New Mexico.
Awards
Winner of New Mexico Book Awards (Travel) 2012 and New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (Travel) 2012.
Book Information
ISBN 9780826350213
Author Carolyn Dodson
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint University of New Mexico Press
Publisher University of New Mexico Press