North Carolina's Best Wildflower Hikes

2004 Nature

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Release : 2004
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 020/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book North Carolina's Best Wildflower Hikes written by . This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author, photographer, and North Carolina native Kevin Adams is your guide on this delightful series of colorful hikes through the Tar Heel State's high country. With lively text, beautiful photography, detailed maps, and informative wildflower profiles, this guidebook is sure to enhance and expand your appreciation of North Carolina's Appalachian landscape.

Wildflower Walks & Hikes

2018 Sports & Recreation

Author : Jim Parham
Release : 2018
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 372/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Wildflower Walks & Hikes written by Jim Parham. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recommends fifty-nine wildflower hikes on public lands in the North Carolina mountains. Each hike entry provides driving and walking directions, map, and description of plants to be found there. Includes sections on forest type, flower identification, and bloom schedule, with more than 300 photographs"--

Washington's Best Wildflower Hikes

2004 Nature

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Release : 2004
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 405/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Washington's Best Wildflower Hikes written by . This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spokane-based author and award-winning photographer Charles Gurche has been capturing Washington's wonderland of wildflowers on film for years. In this practical guide, he now reveals his favorite places to witness the state's unparalleled floral shows. Through his detailed trail descriptions and gorgeous full-color images, Gurche spotlights the state's 50 best day hikes for wildflower viewing. These excursions, located throughout the state, enable hikers of all fitness levels to experience Washington's diverse backcountry at its finest -- and to identify its many colorful and intriguing wildflower species. Driving directions deliver hikers to each trailhead, and color maps illustrate the trail routes. Washington's Best Wildflower Hikes is the ultimate guide for outdoor enthusiasts who wish to discover where to go for their next wildflower trek, what trailside species they are likely to encounter, and when to catch Washington's floral gems in peak bloom. Book jacket.

Backroads of North Carolina

2009-04-15 Travel

Author : Kevin Adams
Release : 2009-04-15
Genre : Travel
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 850/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Backroads of North Carolina written by Kevin Adams. This book was released on 2009-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina is a traveler’s dream, from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Outer Banks’ historic lighthouses, wild horses, and charming fishing villages; from battlegrounds of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the “heart of motorsports”; from rolling wine country and golf courses to stately plantations and rustic settlements. Whether you travel North Carolina for its historic treasures or natural beauty, this handy guide will help you find the Old North State’s most spectacular sites and secret treasures. The book charts weekend adventures and day trips along back roads and scenic routes, into the state’s many mist-shrouded mountains--the Black, the Blue Ridge, and the Great Smokies--and down to its ever-changing shores. Sumptuously illustrated, with maps and all manner of interesting detail, Backroads of North Carolina is a page-by-page pleasure, as well as a passport to the more off-beat delights of the Tar Heel State.

Appalachian Wildflowers

2000 Nature

Author : Thomas Ellsworth Hemmerly
Release : 2000
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 646/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Appalachian Wildflowers written by Thomas Ellsworth Hemmerly. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative field guide covers the wildflowers of the entire Appalachian region, which stretches from Quebec to northern Alabama, encompassing the Catskills of New York, the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, and many mountain ranges in between. Using this book, readers will learn to identify this region's wildflowers by shape, color, family, and habitat. Ecologist and botanist Thomas E. Hemmerly encourages us to "read the landscape" in order to learn about plants' habitats, distribution, and use. In his brief, introductory chapters, he describes ecosystems such as mountain forests and wetlands to provide a context for the information on individual plant species that will be valuable to both professional scientists and amateur naturalists. Practical: The 378 color plates, grouped by color for clear reference, appear alongside plant descriptions for ease of identification.Informative: Each entry includes a description of the plant's habitat, abundance, and geographical distribution, along with information about its ethnobotanical, economic, or medicinal uses. An appendix lists and describes the best places in the Appalachians for "botanizing."User-Friendly: Diagrams of leaf and flower shapes are a further aide to plant identification.The Appalachian Region: Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia

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