An indispensable, fully updated guide for everyone interested in identifying, studying, or conserving the flora of New England This comprehensive manual offers accurate, up-to-date, and clear information for identifying New England's remarkable array of tracheophytes (vascular plants, excluding mosses). With fully researched entries on some 3,500 native and nonnative species, the book is the first in decades to provide a complete and correct botanical reference for the region's noncultivated plants. The volume includes many new species not documented in New England before, while also excluding many species that have erroneously appeared in earlier manuals. Focusing on the taxonomy and distribution of New England plants, the manual is largely dedicated to identification keys and to species entries that provide scientific name, origin, regional conservation ranking, common name, synonyms, distribution, ecology, and other miscellaneous items of interest. Nearly one-third of the entries are accompanied by helpful black-and-white line illustrations. Additional special features: Precise distribution information, accurate to the state level - Details on unusual plant groups not included in other sources - Reliable and versatile keys for identification - Tips on recognizing hybrid plants in the field - A companion interactive teaching Web site (under development) - Comprehensive glossary “The hefty green tome offers a complete guide for identifying upward of 3,500 native and naturalized plant species currently growing roots in six Northeastern states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont)....it’s a pleasure just to page through the illustrations: black-and-white drawings that look a bit like extraterrestrial creepy-crawlies.”—Aaron Leitko, Washington Post -- Aaron Leitko ― Washington Post "Based on almost ten years of empirical field research by Haines (Ancestral Plants), this guide represents a comprehensive update to and revision of significantly outdated and inaccurate subject research. . . . Stunning, margin-bound scientific drawings by Farnsworth and Morrison beautifully clarify the written descriptions. . . . Recommended for botanists and extremely knowledgeable enthusiasts."— Library Journal   ― Library Journal Published On: 2012-02-09 Arthur Haines is research botanist, New England Wild Flower Society, and curator, Delta Institute of Natural History Herbarium. He lives in Bowdoin, ME. Elizabeth Farnsworth is senior research ecologist, New England Wild Flower Society, and a widely published scientific illustrator and writer. She lives in Royalston, MA. Gordon Morrison is a prize-winning freelance artist, writer, and naturalist and illustrator of many children's books and natural history guides, including Bald Eagle , Pond , Newcomb's Wildflower Guide , and A Field Guide to Eastern Forests . He lives in Royalston, MA. New England Wild Flower Society , based in Framingham, MA, is the oldest plant conservation organization in North America. New England Wild Flower Society's Flora Novae Angliae A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Higher Vascular Plants of New England By Arthur Haines YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS Copyright © 2011 New England Wild Flower Society All right reserved. ISBN: 978-0-300-17154-9 Contents Preface.....................................viiAcknowledgments.............................ixIntroduction................................xiGlossary of Terminology.....................xviiKey to the Families.........................1Lycophytes..................................39Monilophytes................................51Gymnosperms.................................75Magnoliids..................................81Monocots....................................87Tricolpates.................................307Literature Cited............................891Index.......................................917 Introduction New England is composed of the six northeastern-most states—Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont (map, p. vi). Though it is somewhat of an arbitrarily defined area, it does have some degree of natural boundaries, including the Atlantic Ocean on much of its eastern border, the St. John River on portions of its northern and northeastern border, Lake Champlain on its northwestern border, the Berkshires and included watersheds (e.g., Housatonic River) on or near its western border, and Long Island sound on its southern border. It is considered to have a well-studied flora, and several manuals have been written that treat the tracheophytes (i.e., vascular plants excluding mosses) occurring in the region. However, it is important to note that no comprehensive flora has been written with a strong focus on updating the taxonomy (i.e., names and circumscription of taxa) and distribution of New England's tracheophytes since Fernald (1950b). Though Seymour (1982) and M