This easy-to-use book helps you acquire a wealth of fascinating information about plants. There are 130 pages
with text, each facing 130 pages of beautiful illustrations. Each page is a separate subject. Included is a coloring
guide for the realistic illustrations. The illustration pages are composed of scientifically accurate line drawings
with the true sizes of the plants indicated. Using colored pencils and the authors' instructions, you can color
the various plant structures to stand out in vivid clarity. Your knowledge of plants increases rapidly as you color
the illustrations.
There is a balanced selection of subjects that deal with all kinds of plants. However, the emphasis is on flowering
plants, which dominate the earth. Drawings show common houseplants, vegetables, fruits, and landscape plants. They
also show common weeds, wild flowers, desert plants, water plants, and crop plants.
Botany Illustrated, Second Edition, has three sections. An Introduction to Plants gives you facts on everything
from cells to seeds. The Major Groups section is from fungi to algae, ferns, conifers, and flowering plants. In
Flowering Plant Families are magnolias to asters, and water-plantains to orchids, with the families of major interest
included. You will find plants used for food, ornamentals, lumber, medicines, herbs, dyes, and fertilizers, whether
wild or poisonous, or of special importance to our Earth's ecosystem.
Topics that will be of interest to you include:
Why leaves 'turn' color in autumn
How certain plants devour insects
How a flower develops into a fruit with seeds
Why some plants only flower at certain times of the year
How water, nutrients, and sugars move within a plant, including tall trees
How flowers are pollinated
The 'inside' story of how plants manufacture their own food
How plants are named and classified
How vines 'climb'
Why 'pinching' makes plants 'bushy'
How plants reproduce sexually
Why shoots grow towards light
How specific leaf colors can indicate specific mineral deficiencies
Botany Illustrated, Second Edition, is especially easy to use because of its great flexibility. You can read
the text and look at the drawings, read the text and color the drawings, or just enjoy coloring the drawings. No
matter where your interests lead you, you will quickly find your knowledge of plants growing! Thus, this beautiful
book will be of great value to students, scientists, artists, crafters, naturalists, home gardeners, teachers,
and all plant lovers.
Table of Contents
Color Code Clues
Introduction to Plants
Major Groups
Monera
Fungi
Protista
Plantae
Flowering Plant Families
Dicots
Magnoliidae
Hamamelidae
Caryophyllidae
Dilleniidae
Roidae
Asteridae
Monocots
Alismatidae
Commelinidae
Zingiberidae
Arecidae
Liliidae
Bibliography
Glossary of Word Roots
Index
