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“Wild Flower Book Due Nov. 16
Nature lovers and amateur botanists will be interested in a book, ‘Wild Flowers of Ohio and Adjacent States’ which will be published Nov. 16 for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History by Case Western Reserve University.
The book will be pocket-size and should be helpful to have along on a hike through the woods and fields. More than 800 species of wild flowers found in Ohio will be described and illustrated. The book will have 204 pages and will sell for $5.95.
The author is Isabelle H. Klein who is research associate of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the University of Toronto. Richard Klein, who made the photos for the book, is a trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.”
– News-Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, 3 Nov 1970
“… the latest book on Ohio wild flowers, sponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The result is a compilation of more than 800 species (still described as only the ‘principal’ wildflowers of the Ohio area).
THAT SOMEWHAT staggering number comes bout, says the Cleveland museum, because Ohio is one of the richest areas in the country in both flora and fauna, because of its variety of environments and its crossroads position.
‘Wild Flowers of Ohio and Adjacent States’ was first published by the museum i 1938, among the first of the pocket-sized field guides now basic to any nature-lover’s library. This revision, issued by the Press of Case Western Reserve University, is by Isabella H. Klein, one of Ohio’s most distinguished natural scientists, and there are some remarkable photographs by her husband Richard, equally well-known.
Big helps to non-botanists among wildflower lovers will be a chart of characteristic flower forms of the various species, and the black-and-white drawings on the facing page for each plant described.
LISTING THAT many species, this guide obviously is much more complete than any others we’ve come across – and a bit surprising as a result.
It lists, for example, 19 varieties of goldenrod as against the three or four most wildflower books note, and one I don’t recall having heard of before is the white goldenrod – actually cream to nearly white – growing only one to two feet tall in dry, sterile, open places in July to October.
And one thing you’ll find is American Columbo, which most other books don’t even mention, which baffled any number of people when they came across it in Adams County a few years ago.”
– The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, 10 Jan 1971
