Lamar Public Library

"Birds and butterflies, ferns and frogs, mushrooms and manta rays, seashells and salamanders - this 576-page book includes more than 2,000 plants and animals of all types. Spanning the land from Florida to the Northwest Territories, it embraces field, forest, pond, prairie - all the natural communities that make our North American flora and fauna so splendidly diverse."--BOOK JACKET. "North American Wildlife is really two books in one: both a valuable...

Includes index.

The New York Times-bestselling guide to botany and booze celebrates its 10th anniversary with an updated edition—now including a guide to planting your very own cocktail garden to go with more than fifty drink recipes. This fascinating, go-to text about the plants that make our drinks is the ideal gift book for every cocktail aficionado, the perfect drinks book for every plant-lover.

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Describes in words and exposes through close-up photographs the amazing anatomy of a variety of plants.

A collection of activities and experiments involving plants, exploring such areas as photosynthesis, plant structures, and growth.

A basic introduction to roots, covering their sizes, shapes, and colors, as well as their function and uses to humans and other animals.

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth...

"Presents several science experiments and project ideas using plants"--Provided by publisher.