Field book of western wild flowers : the ultimate guide to flowers growing west of the Rocky Mountains

The classic, comprehensive guide to the indigenous flowers of the western United States, featuring 500 exquisitely detailed illustrations. At the beginning of the twentieth century, illustrator Margaret Armstrong spent years travelling around the western United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. When she discovered some new flower species at the floor of the Grand Canyon in 1911, she began writing and illustrating her classic Field Book of Western Wild Flowers. This was the first comprehensive handbook to supply detailed information about the plethora of flowers growing in the western United States and includes detailed information on seventy-five plant families, like water-plantain, lilly, buttercup, poppy, mustard, hydrangea, plum, rose, cactus, wintergreen, figwort, and valerian families, and many others. Armstrong includes information on key characteristics of each species, including height, leaf and petal features, colors, where each flower can most likely be found, ideal conditions they flourish in, and much more.