A comprehensive resource for all anglers living in or traveling to southern Illinois, Southern Illinois Fishing will educate and inspire novice and veteran anglers alike. Colby Simms provides readers with highly detailed information about the sport of fishing in southern Illinois and encourages readers to get out there and fish.
Vossler catalogs twenty-three native snake species by both common and scientific names, lists identifying features, and estimates the probability of spotting them. Throughout this book, stunning color photographs of each species’ distinctive physical characteristics enable identification by sight only, an important feature, since Illinois law prohibits the handling, harming, or removal of reptiles and other wildlife on and around the road.
Flowering Plants: Asteraceae, Part 3, is the third and final volume in Robert H. Mohlenbrock’s comprehensive sequence on the aster family in Illinois. Mohlenbrock identifies 128 species, detailing their most important features and common, locally used names, and provides an easy-to-use key for identification.
This volume, the eighth devoted to flowering plants in the Illustrated Flora of Illinois series, is the third of several devoted to dicotyledons, which include such well-known plants as roses, peas, mustards, mints, nightshades, milkweeds, and asters.
Sedges: Carex is the fourteenth volume of the Illustrated Flora of Illinois series and the sixth and last volume devoted to monocots—plants that have a single seed leaf, or cotyledon, upon germination.
Southern Illinois offers a wide variety of habitats and birds unusual to the Midwest. Robinson documents current knowledge of these birds by surveying not only the published literature on the subject but also the unpublished field notes of active observers.
In the first of three volumes on the aster family planned for the Illustrated Flora of Illinois series Mohlenbrock presents new and historic botanical information in a clear and easy-to-read style. The volume provides an easy-to-use key to the genera and species and a complete description and nomenclatural and habitat notes for each plant, including its usefulness, if applicable. New nomenclatural combinations are shown for several species.
One of the unique and most scenic treasures in the Midwest, the Shawnee National Forest spans more than 279,000 acres deep in southern Illinois. The natural beauty, stunning vistas, and diverse flora...
This volume contains four orders and ten families of dicots. The orders included in this volume are Malvales, Urticales, Rhamnales, and Euphorbiales. Within the Malvales are the families Tiliaceae, Sterculiaceae, and Malvaceae. The families Ulmaceae, Moraceae, and Urticaceae comprise the Urticales. Rhamnaceae and Elaeagnaceae make up the Rhamnales. The Euphorbiales include only the Thymelaeceae and the Euphorbiaceae.
The southern twelve counties of Illinois, a total of 4,355square miles, comprise the area covered in this book. It is an area in which both northern and southern flora specimens abound. A wide variety of plant species grow in this area, and nearly 200 new plants not formerly identified with this area have been included in the listings.
A continuation of “The Illustrated Flora of Illinois” series, this volume features Illinois flowering plants. This series is designed to provide a working reference for the identification and classification...
