About the series

To be published in 30 volumes, Flora of North America represents the first and only comprehensive taxonomic guide to the extraordinary diversity of plant life blanketing our continent north of Mexico. The collaborative effort of more than 30 major U.S. and Canadian botanical institutions, this ground-breaking scholarly reference series revises and synthesizes literally thousands of floristic monographs and regional floras published over the last three centuries.

In addition, this new series distills the original herbarium, laboratory, and field work of hundreds of contributors -- all of them leading botanists and taxonomic authorities who have joined forces to develop this century's premier tool for identifying, understanding, and conserving North America's priceless floristic heritage. Concise, easy to use, and beautifully bound and illustrated Flora of North America is an indispensable working resource for botanists, conservationists, ecologists, agronomists, foresters, range and land managers, horticulturists -- anyone with a serious interest in the distribution, habitat, morphology, and survival of the wide-langing plant life around us.

"A massive effort....Will be the definitive work well into the next century." --Library Journal

"...a major event in botany. Its volumes provide more authoritative and useful treatments than do the regional accounts, which hitherto have been the only available source." -- The New York Times

"Flora of North America moves forward steadily, remorselessly, impressively....combines a high standard of research with extensive practical use of databases....The level of detail makes the work accessible to a range of users, and the text is clearly written and set out for the non-specialist." --Plant Talk