TY - BOOK ID - 134996426 TI - Wildflowers and plant communities of the southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont PY - 2011 SN - 9798890877109 0807877654 9780807877654 9780807834404 0807834408 9780807871720 0807871729 PB - Chapel Hill, NC University of North Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - Wild flowers KW - Plant communities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134996426 AB - This richly illustrated field guide serves as an introduction to the wildflowers and plant communities of the southern Appalachians and the rolling hills of the adjoining piedmont. Rather than organizing plants, including trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, by flower color or family characteristics, as is done in most guidebooks, botanist Tim Spira takes a holistic, ecological approach that enables the reader to identify and learn about plants in their natural communities. This approach, says Spira, better reflects the natural world, as plants, like other organisms, don't live in isolation; ER -