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The Book of Field and Roadside: Open-Country Weeds, Trees, and Wildflowers of Eastern North America
By John Eastman, Amelia Hansen
Stackpole Books, 2003
ISBN: 0811726258
Cite: 10290 with citation markup [cite:10290]
A book on North American plant ecology for the amateur naturalist. Has extensive discussion of insect associates. Good illustrations of galls, feeding damage, and the like. Third in a trilogy: The Books of... Forest and Thicket, Swamp and Bog, Field and Roadside. This one covers plants of eastern meadows and fields.