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Are you still thumbing through hundreds of pictures to identify wild flowers?
That's the way I started learning plants, but now there is a much easier way!
Plants that are related to each other have similar characteristics for identification. Botanists have simply looked for patterns in plants and created groups called "families" according to those patterns. In the northern latitudes where there are hard freezes during winter, there are only about 100 broad patterns representing tens of thousands of plant species. Once you identify the family your wild flower belongs to then you can still use your color picture book to identify the species, but now you only have to look through a few pictures to find a match, not hundreds.
This Plant Families Photo Gallery is designed to assist anyone who knows their plant families, especially those who are using my book Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification. When you learn the patterns of the families then it is easy to sort through the pictures to find a match.
Want to learn to identify 45,000 plants today?
Read this on-line article:
Learning to Identify Plants by Families
500+ Wildflower Photos
-With Three Index Systems for the Families-
or Search by Common or Latin Name
Botany in a Day covers most of the plant families across the northern latitudes. The photo gallery here currently includes mostly flowers from the Rocky Mountains, plus some from the west coast and desert southwest. We'll keep adding pictures as we take them. Please send me a note through our E-mail Contact Page if you find any mistakes. Thanks for helping out!
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