Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southwestern United States : Volume 2

Volume 2 of a 2 volume set. Originally published in 1972, the two volume set classic weighs in at 1,777 pages and 789 pages of line drawings.The primary aim of Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southwestern United States by Donovan S. and Helen B. Correll is to enable the identification of fern and flowering plants in polluted and non-polluted aquatic and wetland habitats of the Southwestern United States (Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona). The basic requirement for inclusion was a plant's ability to withstand a permanent or seasonally long submersion of at least its root system. In addition, plants classified as phreatophytes, or those plants whose deeply penetrating roots tap the groundwater, are includedCorrell, Donovan S. is the author of 'Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southwestern United States : Volume 2', published 2002 under ISBN 9781932846201 and ISBN 1932846204.