Leona30:
This book is a must have for any PNW plant enthusiast. It's comprehensive, complete, easy to use and can stand the wet conditions of any hike.
United States on Nov 12, 2023
Gary G.:
Awesome plant description and pictures or drawings . Also when applicable medicinal applications given! Love the book!
United States on Jul 14, 2023
Kathy Earl:
This is a beautiful well organized book. I haven't had it very long but what I have read so far seems well thought out and information seems thorough.
Canada on Mar 29, 2020
Amazon Customer:
This book is very thurough! I'm totally a beginner to this but the information is really useful with detailed descriptions of the look of the plant, what landscape conditions you can find it in, and even a map of where they are found. It will tell you if the plant is edible/poisonous or has medicinal purposes and the pictures and line drawings are very clear and well done. This book was a great investment!
Canada on Jun 01, 2018
CanadianContrarian:
This has turned into an excellent reference I take with me out in the field regularly. Full of pictures, diagrams and notes on edibility, medicinal use, ecology, leaf-flower-fruit descriptions and helpful additional notes. It now travels with me regularly into the bush as well as when landscaping. Definitely a great reference and certainly worthy of the praise found in the reviews here.
Canada on Mar 26, 2018
John Anderson:
This book is a compact encyclopedia of plants with rich illustrations. Having some knowledge of the biological diversity in our forests will make your walk through urban or remote forests more interesting and fun. Highly recommend this for hikers, nature lovers and folks who just want to know more.
Canada on Feb 18, 2018
Bob Janssen:
No better book on the market. I use it extensively for identifying alpine flowers. It is really too big to backpack into mountains, especially on long overnight treks. So I tend to photograph the plants and flowers in the field and do a further identification when I get home. Digital photography makes this so easy. The book's photos are of very high quality greatly facilitating the identification. Plus one gets to learn about how the native population used the plants. The keys are just excellent in helping identification.
Canada on Sep 19, 2014
Yamzu:
This book is very helpful if you know what you're looking at. There are keys to plants within families, but there isn't necessarily a key to the families themselves. So for example, if you look at an unidentified specimen and know that it is a lily, then you can flip to page 99 where there is a key for the plants commonly found within the lily family. Although if you were to find a specimen and not know what family it was in, then you might end up flipping through the book looking for similar plants or anything to signal that plant was in a particular family. It isn't a big deal if you're familiar with common families, but if not this could be a bit frustrating. They do have a page of small representative silhouettes of the families you can compare with, but that's about it.
The pictures in this book are great, most of them focus not only on the flowers but the foliage as well, which makes it easier to identify plants when they aren't in bloom. The photos are in color and have multiple angles in many cases. While the book mainly focuses on herbaceous flowering plants, there are sections for trees, shrubs, ferns, aquatics, and other oddball plants.
I...
United States on May 10, 2012
Wade:
I was tempted to give this book a four star rating because I, so far, have found very few of the plants I've looked for in this book, but that wouldn't be fair to this well written book. The problem is that I live in eastern Washington and this book is about plants of the Pacific Northwest coast. Even though I camp and hike the Cascades quite often I still have some trouble finding what I'm looking for in this book. I've never seen so many plants in one book I can't find. But because this book is so well laid out, with so much excellent information, and so many excellent photos of so many different kinds of plants (and even trees) I have to give it five stars.
Even though this book is a chunk (I'm guessing about two pounds) I still can't help but take it with me on my excursions even when weight is a major factor. That's how well done this book is; the photos and information on every plant are unsurpassed. So, if you live, camp or hike on the Coast of the Pacific Northwest and want to know more about the plants around you I don't see not owning this book. I live on the east side of the State and I don't see not owning this book. I think it's a five...
United States on Jan 10, 2012
| Jim Pojar's Guide to the Flora of the Pacific Northwest Coast | Learn About Dinosaurs with the Fun Phrase 'Oh Say Can You Say Di-no-saur?' | The Stranger in the Woods: An Unforgettable Tale of the Last True Hermit | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
 |
 |
|
| B2B Rating |
88
|
98
|
95
|
| Sale off | $6 OFF | $5 OFF | $4 OFF |
| Total Reviews | 24 reviews | 271 reviews | 138 reviews |
| Paperback | 528 pages | ||
| Best Sellers Rank | #23 in Trees in Biological Sciences #55 in Pacific West United States Travel Books #58 in Outdoors & Nature Reference | #2 in Children's Prehistoric Books #6 in Children's Dinosaur Books #32 in Children's Beginner Readers | #227 in Hiking & Camping Instructional Guides#376 in Crime & Criminal Biographies#431 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies |
| ISBN-10 | 1772130087 | 9780679891147 | |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 823 ratings var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when.execute { if { dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction = true; A.declarative { if { ue.count || 0) + 1); } } ); } }); P.when.execute { A.declarative{ if { ue.count || 0) + 1); } }); }); | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 19,302 ratings var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when.execute { if { dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction = true; A.declarative { if { ue.count || 0) + 1); } } ); } }); P.when.execute { A.declarative{ if { ue.count || 0) + 1); } }); }); | 4.4/5 stars of 9,717 ratings |
| Language | English | English | |
| Trees in Biological Sciences | Trees in Biological Sciences | ||
| Dimensions | 5.5 x 0.95 x 8.5 inches | 6.81 x 0.35 x 9.31 inches | |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1772130089 | 978-0679891147 | |
| Item Weight | 1.88 pounds | 7.9 ounces | |
| Pacific West United States Travel Books | Pacific West United States Travel Books | ||
| Outdoors & Nature Reference | Outdoors & Nature Reference | ||
| Publisher | Lone Pine International; Revised edition | Random House Books for Young Readers; 37642nd edition |
United States on Jan 05, 2024