Flowering Plants: Willows to Mustards (The Illustrated Flora of Illinois) [1 ed.] 080930922X, 9780809309221

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale

OpenSIUC Illustrated Flora of Illinois

Southern Illinois University Press

1-1980

Flowering Plants: Willows to Mustards Robert H. Mohlenbrock Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Synonyms, with complete author citation, which have applied to species in Illinois, are given under each species. Descriptions, while not necessarily intended to be complete, cover the more important features of each species. As in previous volumes in this series, the common name, or names, is the one used locally in Illinois. The habitat designation is not always the habitat throughout the range of the species but only for it in Illinois. Ranges have been compiled from various sources, including examination of herbarium material and field studies. Dot maps showing county distribution for each taxon are provided. Volumes in The Illustrated Flora of Illinois follow a classification proposed in outline form by Robert Thorne in 1968. Except for departures in a few instances, these concepts have been generally accepted in this work. These volumes follow Thorne in a few instances, these concepts have been generally accepted in this work. These volumes follow Thorne in using the standard suffix -aceae for all families. Thus here the mustard family, traditionally known as the Cruciferae, becomes the Brassicaceae. Because of the scientific exactitude and practical usefulness of this distinguished series, the eighth volume will find a welcome place in reference collections and in the field.

ADVISORY BOARD Constantine J. Alexopoulos, University of Texas Gerald W. Prescott, University of Montana Aaron J. Sharp, University of Tennessee Robert F. Thorne, Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens Rolla M. Tryon, Jr., The Gray Herbarium This first attempt by any botanists in the country to produce a work which covers the whole range of plant groups will give keys, descriptions, distribution maps, comments, and illustrations of every kind of plant known to occur in this state. While various states have floras for certain groups of plants (ferns, or flowering plants, or mosses, etc.), they generally are not illustrated, or lack descriptions, or are incomplete in some other way. “These books are excellent and should be invaluable to teachers and serious students of botany.” —The Explorer

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All flowering plants may be divided into two great groups, the monocotyledons, or monocots, and the dicotyledons, or dicots. Monocots are plants that produce a single leaf, called a seed leaf, when the seeds first germinate. Dicots, on the other hand, are plants that give rise to a pair of seed leaves. Although monocots are fewer in number than dicots, they included many important groups of plants. Grasses, sedges, lilies, orchids, irises, aroids, and pondweeds are examples of monocots. The members of this group have been described in five previous volumes in The Illustrated Flora of Illinois. Dicots, which are more numerous in Illinois, include well-known plants such as roses, peas, mustards, mints, nightshades, milkweeds, and asters. One volume treating dicots has been published previously in this series—Flowering Plants: Hollies to Loasas (1978). In this present volume, Robert H. Mohlenbrock includes three orders of vascular plants, encompassing five families. Because such a small number of families of dicots is found in this work, no overall key to the dicot families of Illinois is included. For keys to all families of vascular plants in Illinois, Mohlenbrock’s companion volume, Vascular Flora of Illinois is recommended. The orders covered in this present volume are the Salicales, Tamaricales, and Capparidales. The Salicales and Tamaricales each are made up of a single family, the Salicaceae and Tamaricaceae, respectively. Three families comprise the Capparidales. These are the Capparidaceae, Resedaceae, and Brassicaceae. In all 44 genera and 117 species are treated, and each species is illustrated in detail with some of the best drawings ever to appear in any flora. The nomenclature for the species and lesser taxa used in this volume has been arrived at after lengthy study of recent floras and monographs.

Edited by ROBERT H. MOHLENBROCK

ISBN 0-8093-0922-X ISBN 978-0-8093-0922-1

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Robert H. Mohlenbrock, one of the most prolific writers of contemporary plant scientists, is professor of botany and chairman of the department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and general editor of The Illustrated Flora of Illinois series. Among his many publications are 17 books, of which Flowering Plants: Hollies to Loasas (1978) was the first volume to be devoted to the dicots in this series, and over 200 articles in technical journals and popular magazines. He is co-author with Douglas M. Ladd of Distribution of Illinois Vascular Plants and with John W. Voigt of A Flora of Southern Illinois and Plant Communities of Southern Illinois.

The seventh volume in the Illustrated Flora of Illinois series to be devoted to flowering plants, Willows to Mustards is the second of several volumes treating dicotyledons.

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