Peterson Field Guides Wildflowers: Northeastern/North-central North America

By: Roger Tory Peterson/Margaret McKenny

Sponsored by the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute

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Roger Tory Peterson’s unique system shows exactly what features to look for to tell one species from another.

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A Field Guide to Wildflowers

Grouped by color and by plant characteristics, 1,293 species in 84 families are described and illustrated. Included here are all the flowers you’re most likely to encounter in the eastern and north-central U.S., westward to the Dakotas and southward to North Carolina and Arkansas, as well as adjacent parts of Canada.