Olmsted Parks of Louisville - A Botanical Field Guide

It will serve as an essential resource for students, nature enthusiasts, and the more than ten thousand visitors who use the parks.

About the author

Patricia Dalton Haragan is the author of Weeds of Kentucky and Adjacent States: A Field Guide and Wildflowers of the Northeast in the Audubon Fairchild Garden. She is a former botanist for Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy and a former curator of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Herbarium.

Summary

Offers the first authoritative manual on the 380 species of trees, herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines populating the nearly 1,900 acres that comprise Cherokee, Seneca, Iroquois, Shawnee, and Chickasaw Parks. Designed for easy reference, this handy field guide includes detailed photos and maps as well as ecological and historical information about each park.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Dalton Haragan, Patricia Dalton/ Rademacher Haragan
• Assisted by: Chris Bidwell (Photographs), Susan Wilson (Photographs)
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2014
• EAN: 9780813144542
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-4454-2
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Nature guide; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Enzyklopädien und Nachschlagewerke, Nature, NATURE / Plants / General, REFERENCE / Personal & Practical Guides, NATURE / Regional