Grasses, Sedges, Rushes: An Identification Guide

Very informative and good illustration. Has cultural blurbs for graminoids that colonized the northeast Americas. I use it when i question plants on a trail or park.

I have been looking for a book like this for ages. Love the fact that there is info on the plants, drawings and most of all good pictures for identifying the plants. Love the flexible cover too.

4/5 because I was really excited to buy this and when I wasn't seeing several very common sedges/rushes I got to looking and saw the map in the beginning near the introduction. I wish that would have been part of the cover or details or that I had looked through that excerpt provided. Who wouldn't want to just buy this right off the press though?! It's informative and has good drawings but I'll have to find another field guide to pair it with.

This is a beautiful revision of Brown's original Grasses book. The addition of the color photos of the plants in their habitats is tremendously helpful alongside Brown's exquisite line drawings. Convenient trim size makes it easy to use in the field. Well worth the expense!

I own 8 grass, sedge & rush books for the northeast U.S. This is the easiest and quickest book to use for specy identification. It saves me a lot of time.

Lauren's original edition really filled a void for a non-technical introduction to identifying eastern grasses and grass-like plants. The new edition adds photos to the earlier drawings, updates the botanical names and adds only a little more info. There still isn't anything better to at least get close to the right name for the more common species, and next step is still a dissecting microscope and a technical manual full of specialized terminology.

I did not see what area this book covered when reading the product description, maybe I’m blind? This book covers the Midwest of the US, which isn’t really useful for a botanist in Florida. Regardless this is a 5 star book for the sheer craftsmanship of the binding, flexible cover, and neat editing. Even if I can’t use this book, the introduction and supplementary text has interested me in visiting the grasslands of the Midwest in the future!

I enrolled in a field grasses, sedges & rushes course this year and wanted an intro before I went to the filed. This book was wonderful for that. Their is not a lot of selection in this area of botanical field guides. I would recommend this book for beginners.

Nicely put together with an interesting introduction & brief notes on prairie types and general grass etc identification features covering N America circumstances - not so helpful for UKPhoto- illustrated but descriptions are far short of the level of detail of Hubbard

The book is a fine reference for North American flora. Unfortunately, the seller’s description failed to point this out, and therefore inappropriate for a UK survey. Otherwise 5 stars