Author: Sue Olse
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: ferns, garden, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0881928194
ISBN-13: 9780881928198

Gardeners who seek an up-to-date, authoritative guide to the wealth of garden-worthy ferns available today will find none better than Sue Olsen. Drawing from four decades of experience as a fern specialist, Olsen leads the reader through every genus with horticultural merit, focusing primarily on the temperate species but also including tropical ones. The remarkably comprehensive plant directory presents succinct descriptions for nearly 1000 ferns from Acrostichum to Woodwardia, with habitat information, cultural recommendations, and help on plant identification. Chapters on the history, culti

Author: C. N. Page
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: ireland, britain, ferns
Number of Pages: 564
Published: 1997-09-28
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521586585
ISBN-13: 9780521586580

This user-friendly field guide describes and illustrates the ferns, clubmosses, quillworts and horsetails native to Britain and Ireland, giving comprehensive entries for over 100 species and hybrids. Each entry gives a brief "pen picture" which outlines the key features of each species, supported by clear and informative frond silhouette illustrations. Valuable additional information on distribution, ecology and biology is provided in the form of "Field Notes".

Author: Anne Spollen
Publisher: Flux
Keywords: ferns, beneath, light
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2010-02-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0738715425
ISBN-13: 9780738715421

I have this strange sense that my silence is preparing me for something I can’t name . . . Elizah Rayne is nothing like other fourteen-year-old girls. More interested in bird bones than people, she wraps herself in silence. Trying to escape the shadow of her gambler father, Elizah and her mother move into an old house that borders a cemetery. All her mother wants is for them to have "normal" lives. But that becomes impossible for Elizah when she finds a human jawbone by the river and meets Nathaniel, a strangely hypnotic boy who draws Elizah into his dreamlike and mysterious world.

Author: Robbin C. Moran
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: ferns, history, natural
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0881926671
ISBN-13: 9780881926675

A Natural History of Ferns is an entertaining and informative look at why ferns and their relatives are unique among plants. Ferns live in habitats from the tropics to polar latitudes, and unlike seed plants, which endow each seed with the resources to help their offspring, ferns reproduce by minute spores. There are floating ferns, ferns that climb or live on trees, and ferns that are trees. There are poisonous ferns, iridescent ferns, and resurrection ferns that survive desert heat and drought. The relations of ferns and people are equally varied. Moran sheds light on Robinson Crusoe’s

Authors:Mark F. Large, John E. Braggins,
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: ferns, tree
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0881926302
ISBN-13: 9780881926309

Tree ferns in the landscape command the attention of both devoted gardeners and casual passersby. The stately form of these ferns resembles that of the palm tree and evokes a feeling of the quintessentially exotic. Tree ferns are successful survivors from the distant past, with plant forms dating back to the Jurassic period. Yet tree ferns are still rapidly evolving---they have been discovered growing among the cinders of active Hawaiian volcanoes. In the wild, tree ferns occur in certain subtropical and tropical environments and in Southern Hemisphere temperate forests, where they give an

Author: Daniel D. Palmer
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: allies, fern, ferns, hawaii
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2002-11-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0824825225
ISBN-13: 9780824825225

Hawaii’s Ferns and Fern Allies is the first comprehensive survey of Hawaii’s ferns to be published in more than 100 years. The book covers endemic, indigenous, and naturalized ferns and fern allies (including rare and endangered taxa), providing dichotomous keys, basionyms and synonyms, technical descriptions and distributions, a glossary, and statistical information. The author addresses unresolved taxonomic problems and offers suggestions for future research. He includes information from Hawaiian folklore and mythology, describes uses of ferns by native Hawaiians, and updates Haw

Authors:Tom A. Ranker, Christopher H. Haufler,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: lycophytes, ferns, evolution, biology
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2008-07-14
List price: $138.00
ISBN-10: 0521874114
ISBN-13: 9780521874113

With their team of contemporary scholars, the editors present a thorough coverage of fundamental topics necessary for obtaining an up-to-date understanding of the biology of ferns and lycophytes. The book is organized into major topics that build from the individual and its biochemistry and structure, to genetics and populations, to interactions among individuals and the conservation of species, and concludes with perspectives on evolutionary history and classification. Each chapter is organized to review past work, explore current questions, and suggest productive directions for continued dis