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Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers: A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of the coastal Regions of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Northeastern Florida.


0762734337

Atlantic coastal plain The Atlantic Coastal Plain is the flat stretch of land that borders the Atlantic Ocean (including the Gulf of Mexico). It is approximately 2,200 miles long, stretching from Newark, through the southeast United States and through Mexico, ending with the Yucatán Peninsula.  wildflowers; a field guide to the wildflowers of the coastal regions of Virginia, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures


Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop.
, South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures


Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15.
, Georgia, and northeastern Florida.

Nelson, Gil.

FalconGuide

2006

263 pages

$24.95

Paperback

A Falcon guide

QK122

After introducing the diverse plant communities of this 25-million acre subunit sub·u·nit  
n.
A subdivision of a larger unit.

Noun 1. subunit - a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit
fractional monetary unit
 of the Southeastern Coastal Plains, Nelson (botany, Florida State U.) describes some 300 wildflowers of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Accounts organized by flower color provide notes on nomenclature, morphological features, bloom season, habitat/ range, rarity, and uses. This backpack-sized companion to East Gulf Coastal Plain The Gulf Coastal Plain extends from the Florida Parishes of Louisiana over most of Mississippi, some of western Tennessee and Kentucky, the southwestern 2/3 of Alabama, and the western panhandle of Florida and Southern Texas.  Wildflowers includes a regional map, color photos, back cover field ruler, glossary, and native plant resources. Falcon Guide is an imprint of Globe Pequot Press.

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