Grasses of the Texas Hill Country: A Field Guide: 40 (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series

A Field Guide
A photographic guide to seventy-seven species of grass that grow in the Texas Hill Country and beyond. It contains: handy thumb guides to seed head type; color photographs of stands of grasses and close-ups; information about economic uses, habitat, range, and flowering season; and quick-reference icons for native status, toxicity, and others.
This photographic guide to grasses gives all who have been frustrated trying to identify these difficult plants an easy-to-use, visually precise, and information-packed field guide to seventy-seven native and introduced species that grow in the Texas Hill Country and beyond. With a blade of grass in hand, open this book and find: handy thumb guides to seed head type, the most visible distinguishing characteristic to begin identification; color photographs of stands of grasses and detailed close-ups; concise information about economic uses, habitat, range, and flowering season; and quick-reference icons for native status, toxicity, growing season, and grazing response.